Brave Nurse Blew the Whistle on Texas Children’s Hospital Accused of Manipulating Parents Into Giving Kids Life-Changing Trans Treatments
A nurse at the nation’s largest children’s hospital says doctors pressured parents to give their kids hormone therapy and other transgender medical interventions — warning that the 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 doctors there were more driven by “ideology” than what was best for the youths, many of whom had additional underlying problems.
“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.”
Sivadge, 31, also alleged that doctors would miscategorize 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. (Read more from “Brave Nurse Blew the Whistle on Texas Children’s Hospital Accused of Manipulating Parents Into Giving Kids Life-Changing Trans Treatments” HERE)