I thought the “would you rather have a dead son or a living daughter?” bit had gone out of favor.
I guess it’s coming back.
In Texas.
A nurse at the nation’s largest children’s hospital says doctors pressured parents to give their kids hormone therapy and other transgender medicine interventions — warning that their children might kill themselves if they held off on treatments.
Vanessa Sivadge has worked at a Texas Children’s Hospital clinic where kids are given gender-affirming care since 2021. She said that doctors there are more driven by “ideology” than what was best for the youths, many of whom had additional underlying problems.
Vanessa Sivadge
“Parents were manipulated by doctors with an ideological agenda to go down this path of medical transition for their child,” Sivadge told The Post in an exclusive interview.
“And I do think that doctors would use manipulative language to suggest that if they didn’t do this their child would commit suicide or they would harm themselves.”
It’s ideological, but these hospitals also make a lot of money off of these drug treatments and surgeries.
So it’s a bit like a mafia shakedown, to threaten that the kid is going to die if they don’t go tranny.
You’d think it would be illegal in any country that was even semi-normal.
Sivadge, 31, also alleged that doctors would mis-categorize the treatments to justify gender-affirming care. She believes that the doctors are using the strategy to get around a ban by Texas Medicaid on covering hormone treatments for transgender medicine.
Most of a hospital’s profit comes from Medicaid.
It’s not really a very good system.
You might even ask “is this worse than communism?”
However, Sivadge said she does not directly know whether the treatments are being charged to the publicly-funded health insurance scheme.
The Houston healthcare worker said she is now being hounded by the FBI for speaking out. Agents visited her home after she spoke to the conservative journalist Chris Rufo, and suggested she was part of an investigation into violations of HIPAA patient privacy laws.
Vanessa Sivadge is a nurse that outed Texas Children’s Hospital for its operations on trans kids.
Then the FBI knocked on her door and wanted to “sit down”. pic.twitter.com/JGNMWUdjYa
— CommiesOnCampus (@CommiesOnCampus) June 18, 2024
Sivadge, who still works for Texas Children’s Hospital, said she has observed doctors manipulating the parents of young patients into agreeing to the treatment without informing them of the long term side effects like infertility.
“The doctor would do things based on what the patient wanted, and not what was medically best for them,” she said.
“There was just no discussion of what are the risks, what are the longterm effects.”
She said she observed doctors in the clinic misdiagnosing patients with hormone deficiencies in order to get Medicaid coverage.
“Providers… were misdiagnosing patients intentionally for the purpose of justifying puberty blockers and hormones,” she said.
Among the strategies was making “ludicrous” claims that healthy girls had a testosterone deficiency, or healthy boys had an estrogen deficiency, she alleged.
The normal diagnosis would be gender dysphoria for kids who were deemed to need gender-affirming care, she explained. However, doctors were instead using the alternate diagnosis.
She believes this is part of an effort to allow them to get treatments covered through the taxpayer-funded health insurance program, she claimed.
Texas Children’s Hospital said in March 2022 that it would stop gender-affirming hormone treatments for kids after Gov. Greg Abbott and Attorney General Ken Paxton declared such treatments “child abuse” under state law.
In June 2023, the state legislature passed a law banning trans treatments for kids, and barring taxpayer funds from going to pay for gender-affirming care. That legislation is now the subject of a lawsuit before the Texas Supreme Court.
Sivadge said the clinic would also note which parents expressed reticence about giving gender-affirming care to their children.
“There were the parents that were very affirming of their child’s new sexual identity and there were the parents that were a little more cautious and a little more careful and they had some questions and it was always noted in the chart which parents were cautious and weren’t completely affirming and which ones were,” she claimed.
I don’t know if these AI images are too much.
Leaning towards “yeah,” but I don’t know.
This is Dr. David Paul. According to Sivadge, Paul has managed a large number of pediatric sex-change patients. For example, he prescribed sex-change hormones and discussed breast implants with a male who identified as “female.” The patient was enrolled in the state Medicaid… pic.twitter.com/t12qgspQSP
— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) June 18, 2024