Whistleblowing Nurse Fired

Aug 28, 2024

Nurse Vanessa Sivadge said she blew the whistle because “Ephesians 5 says to have nothing to do with the worthless deeds of evil and darkness but instead expose them, and that everything exposed by the light becomes visible.” After blowing the whistle on the unlawful child abuse at Texas Children’s Hospital (TCH), Vanessa has now been canned.

Texas banned puberty blockers and mutilating surgeries on minors in 2023. But according to documents provided by Vanessa as well as another whistleblower doctor, the country’s largest children’s hospital continued performing the banned services and billing Texas Medicaid for those services — another violation of Texas law.

This fall, the U.S. Supreme Court will decide if states will be allowed to continue banning these abusive interventions. Liberty Counsel is preparing our brief, since we were the first to take up these fights going back to 2012.

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Though trained as a cardiac nurse, Vanessa was assigned to TCH’s endocrine clinic. There, her work increasingly focused on prescriptions and procedures for these children.

As a Christian, Vanessa could no longer participate in the destruction of God’s precious children. She filed religious accommodation paperwork asking to be transferred to the cardiac unit, which would match her specialized medical training and not conflict with her Christian viewpoint that every child is made in the image of God.

Vanessa also filed an anonymous report stating that the child services TCH was performing were in violation of Texas law.

Two FBI agents knocked on Vanessa’s door two weeks later, trying to intimidate the young Christian nurse into giving up the names of the whistleblowers, and intimidate her into silence.

“They threatened me,” Vanessa says. “They promised they would make life difficult for me if I was trying to protect the leaker. They said I was ‘not safe’ at work and claimed that someone at my workplace had given my name to the FBI.”

“[I]nstead of investigating medical institutions and organizations — in my case, a hospital — for wrongdoing and for illegal activity, the federal government was weaponized to come after people exposing crime and whistleblowers like me." Vanessa says. “And so that's egregious. It's something I never imagined in a million years would happen to me."

"I believe that the Department of Justice has been weaponized against people of faith and people who expose wrongdoing and illegal activity — not just in my case, but in many others," she says.

But Joe Biden and Kamala Harris’ DOJ weren’t the only ones trying to silence Vanessa. After Vanessa’s whistleblower report hit the news, TCH fired her, citing the hospital’s refusal to grant her religious accommodation request, as well as her whistleblower report.

Like Texas, several states have banned chemical and surgical sex-change procedures on minors. This fall, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear oral arguments to decide if states will be allowed to protect children from irreversible puberty blockers, cross-sex hormone treatments, and mutilating surgeries.

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Sources:

Brown, Jon. “Christian Whistleblower Nurse Fired from Texas Children’s Hospital Talks Spiritual War.” The Christian Post, August 26, 2024. Christianpost.com/news/whistleblower-nurse-fired-tch-talks-spiritual-war.html.

Rufo, Christopher F. “The Murky Business of Transgender Medicine.” City Journal, June 18, 2024. City-journal.org/article/the-murky-business-of-transgender-medicine.

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