Christopher Rufo: Biden Has Dispatched The Secret Police of the FBI to Harass and Intimidate Whistleblowers Who Expose Hospitals Illegally Performing Trans Surgeries on Children

And the FBI, of course, is only too eager to play the role of the American Stasi.

The allegation brought forward by whistleblowers is that some trans doctors are defrauding Medicaid by falsifying eligibility for trans "therapy."

Rather than investigate the substance of these allegations, the FBI is intimidating the whistleblowers.

Again.

As usual.

City Journal:

The "gender-affirming care" business has always had an aura of madness around it. Wielding the authority of white coats and prestigious degrees, doctors have convinced large swaths of the public that some children are "born in the wrong body." The solution? Stop puberty, prescribe cross-sex hormones, and then, with the stroke of a knife, remove body parts--most commonly breasts, less frequently genitalia.

These medical practices use scientific rhetoric to affirm what is, at bottom, an ideological program. And gender activists have been successful enough at capturing the legitimizing institutions--medical societies, regulatory bodies, and teaching hospitals--to repel most challenges to the burgeoning child sex-change industry.

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I have reported on one of these programs, the pediatric gender clinic at Texas Children's Hospital. Last year, I published an investigation demonstrating that, though it had promised to shut down its program, Texas Children's had continued to administer hormone drugs to children as young as 11. Following the story, the state attorney general launched an investigation, and state legislators passed a bill, SB 14, prohibiting all transgender medical interventions on minors.

While these scandals caught the headlines, another story involving the same institution was brewing in the background: medical fraud.

According to a new whistleblower, doctors at Texas Children's Hospital were willing to falsify medical records and break the law to keep practicing "gender-affirming care." Caught in the wave of ideological fervor, two of the hospital's prominent physicians, Richard Ogden Roberts and David Paul, cut corners and, according to the whistleblower, committed Medicaid fraud to secure funds for the hospital's child sex-change program.

(Texas Children's Hospital, Roberts, and Paul did not respond to a request for comment.)

This is a story of fanaticism, hubris, and the murky business of transgender medicine. It would have remained hidden, except for the courage of two people inside the hospital, a surgeon named Eithan Haim and a nurse who has now decided to come forward. Both have risked much to alert the public to the barbarism that is occurring at the nation's largest, and arguably most prestigious, children's hospital.

Some years ago, Vanessa Sivadge thought she had it made, having just accepted a position as a registered nurse at Texas Children's Hospital. She had wanted to be a nurse since high school and felt a sense of joy in helping children.

But her feelings toward Texas Children's didn't last. Beginning in 2021, Sivadge saw a dramatic rise in the number of "transgender children" treated at the hospital. These patients struggled with various problems: depression, anxiety, addiction, suicide attempts, physical abuse, and discomfort with puberty. But rather than deal with these underlying psychological conditions, Sivadge says, doctors at the hospital would diagnose them with "gender dysphoria" and assign them to a regimen of "gender-affirming care."

The practice made Sivadge recoil. "In the cardiac clinic, we were taking sick kids and making them better," she says. "In the transgender clinic, it was the opposite. We were harming these kids."

Then, the following year, she breathed a sigh of relief. Under pressure from the state attorney general, Ken Paxton, Texas Children's CEO Mark Wallace said that he was shutting down the child gender clinic. But it wasn't true. Mere days later, it had secretly reopened for business.

And business was booming. Doctors, including Roberts, Paul, and Kristy Rialon, were managing dozens of pediatric sex-change cases, performing surgeries, blocking puberty, implanting hormone devices, and making specialty referrals. They were motivated not only by ideology, but by hope for prestige: they were saviors of the oppressed, the vanguard of gender medicine.

Sivadge soon had seen enough. She read my investigative report exposing Texas Children's sex-change program, which relied on testimony from Haim, and reached out to share her own observations.

"I work very closely with this provider, Dr. Richard Roberts. I've been in the room with him when he speaks with these patients," she told me in an interview. "Dr. Roberts is extremely encouraging of their transition and will essentially do whatever he can to make sure that they are happy, at least externally happy. Because I am absolutely certain that they are not internally happy. He is very accommodating. He does whatever they want. Essentially, there is no critical analysis of the process."

In Sivadge's view, Roberts and other providers were manipulating patients into accepting "gender-affirming care." When parents objected, the doctors bulldozed them, she claims. Some families, she believed, feared that the hospital would call Child Protective Services if they dissented.

Then, two months after I spoke with her for that story, Sivadge called me in a panic. The FBI had sent two special agents, Paul Nixon and David McBride, to her home. The agents knocked on the door, asked her about "some of the things that have been going on at [her] work lately," and then asked to enter her home. She was terrified. (The FBI declined to comment.)

The agents told Sivadge that she was a "person of interest" in an investigation targeting the whistleblower who had exposed the child sex-change program. They told her that the whistleblower had broken federal privacy laws. "They threatened me," Sivadge said. "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."

Much more at the link. As you know, the lawless, corrupt tyranny that has usurped this country's government is opening up the federal dragnet claiming that these whistleblowers -- who are exposing real crimes and fraud -- are guilty of... HIPPA violations.

Video of The Knock At the Door below.

Christopher F. Rufo
@realchrisrufo

This is where we are now: The Biden Administration sent two FBI agents to intimidate a nurse who told the truth about the child sex-change program at Texas Children's Hospital. The regime is mobilizing to threaten and imprison anyone who opposes "transgender medicine."

alexandriabrown @alexthechick

Remember, everyone, the rank and file FBI would never go along with anything like this. At least that is what people who truly need to wipe their chins have typed for decades now vis a vis FBI field agents.

Auron MacIntyre @AuronMacintyre

The FBI intimidate political opponents and threaten law abiding citizens who try to protect children

I don't want to hear about reform or cleaning house

The entire organization must be dismantled

Jesse Kelly @JesseKellyDC

You can have a free country or you can have a FBI. You cannot have both. Free countries don't survive with secret police agencies. Those two things cannot coexist

The only acceptable position on the FBI is its complete abolishment.

Sean Davis @seanmdav

The FBI is a domestic terrorist organization. It is the American Stasi, and it exists entirely to terrorize the American people on behalf of a corrupt and evil regime.

Thanks to andycanuck for all this.

YOU WILL BE MADE TO KNEEL.

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