Texas doctor encourages illegal alien patients to skip citizenship question — Abbott warns hospital he’ll pull funding



Texas Governor Greg Abbott (R) threatened to pull state funding from a local hospital last week after one of its doctors encouraged patients to defy his executive order regarding citizenship.

Dr. Tony Pastor, a cardiologist at Texas Children's Hospital and assistant professor at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, posted a video on TikTok on November 11 that was viewed more than 1 million times before it was deleted.

'There will be consequences.'

In the video, Pastor told his followers that he and his colleagues at the hospital had been informed that patients could skip an intake form question inquiring about their citizenship status.

Pastor said, "So my proposal to everyone who's seeing this is, just know that you do not have to answer this question."

Abbott responded to Pastor's statements on November 24, warning the hospital that the doctor was "putting [its] Medicaid & Medicare funding at risk."

"[You] better think twice & have crystal clear records. There will be consequences for failing to follow the law in the Order," Abbott wrote.

Pastor posted additional videos on TikTok addressing the governor's response.

He captioned one video, writing, "When the gov of Texas threatens you on twitter because he is mad you exercised freedom of speech."

Pastor stated in another video, "This new law that's asking hospitals for immigration status is under the guise of trying to get data on how much money we're spending on undocumented patients."

"The reason I have an issue with that is that if you really, truly cared about patients and spending, and both, in Texas, then why are we one of 10 states that has not accepted Medicaid expansion?" Pastor continued.

Texas Children's Hospital has vowed to cooperate with Abbott's executive order.

"Texas Children's fully supports Governor Abbott's new Executive Order and is in full compliance," it stated. "We have worked closely with the Texas Hospital Association and our industry partners across the state to ensure compliance in advance of the effective date."

The hospital's statement continued, "While we recognize that individuals working at Texas Children's hold their own personal views on many topics, those opinions do not necessarily reflect the official position of Texas Children's Hospital. We will continue to prioritize patient care while ensuring we are in full compliance with all laws and legal directives."

The governor's executive order went into effect on November 1, requiring hospitals receiving Medicaid or the Children's Health Insurance Plan to add "Are you a U.S. citizen?" to intake forms.

Abbott, who issued the order in August, stated that it would allow Texas to track how much the state's taxpayers are spending on care for illegal aliens due to the current administration's open-border policies.

"Due to President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris' open border policies, Texas has had to foot the bill for medical costs for individuals illegally in the state," Abbott stated. "Texans should not have to shoulder the burden of financially supporting medical care for illegal immigrants."

"Texas will hold the Biden-Harris Administration accountable for the consequences of their open border policies, and we will fight to ensure that they pay back Texas for their costly and dangerous policies," he declared.

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Whistleblower gives bold Christian testimony after exposing sex-change program at children's hospital: 'No matter the cost'



A whistleblower who helped expose the sex-change program at Texas Children's Hospital is speaking out about her faith and how it empowered her to come forward with the truth.

Last month, registered nurse Vanessa Sivadge went public.

'We had to affirm what God has deemed good — and that is the good and perfect design in men and women.'

Sivadge was the second whistleblower to come forward about the sex-change program at Texas Children's Hospital. The first, Dr. Eithan Haim, has been indicted on four felony charges for allegedly violating medical privacy laws. Not only has Sivadge provided horrifying details about the sex-change program, but she has alleged that physicians at Texas Children's Hospital have committed Medicaid fraud by "illegally billing Medicaid for transgender procedures."

Last summer, FBI agents showed up at Sivadge's house and, according to her, communicated veiled threats if she did not assist in their investigation into Dr. Haim.

In a new interview with BlazeTV host Allie Beth Stuckey, Sivadge explained how her Christian faith helped her overcome the frightening situation.

"It was a really difficult time where we had to rely on the Lord and just turn to him," she said.

One of the Bible verses that has encouraged her through the "really difficult" situation, Sivadge said, is Ephesians 5:11, which reads, "Have nothing to do with the fruitless deeds of darkness, but rather expose them."

"I took that very literally," Sivadge explained. "What God designs, he defines, and this is not an issue that we should compromise on. This is a foundational Genesis 1 issue."

Sivadge told Stuckey that she believes God brought her to a place where she was forced to depend on him. Citing Ephesians 2, Sivadge said she believes God prepared her in advance for the difficult work of standing up for the truth about biological sex.

"This was not an accident to God. And he knew this would happen a long time ago, and this is the good work that he's prepared in advance that I would do," she said.

"Reclaiming that truth and also just speaking the promises of God over myself — that God is ultimately my defender, that he's my protector, that Jesus is my advocate before God the Father, that nothing can snatch me out of his hand. Speaking those truths to the fear and the anxiety that the enemy wants to keep you in was so critical for me in the weeks that followed," Sivadge explained.

Going even farther, Sivadge said Christians are called to defend God's truth no matter the cost.

"God is worthy of our trust no matter what happens," she said.

"So we knew that this was not the end of the story, that we had to speak out, that we had to affirm what God has deemed good — and that is the good and perfect design in men and women. His design for our gender and sexuality is good and beautiful and right. And we are called to affirm that no matter the cost," she explained.

Fortunately, the FBI has left Sivadge alone since that one encounter last summer.

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Is the FBI BLACKMAILING whistleblower doctor who exposed Texas Children's Hospital for performing illegal gender modification procedures on minors?



When Eithan Haim became a doctor, he took the Hippocratic Oath very seriously. That unwavering commitment to ethics, however, landed him in hot water when he exposed Texas Children's Hospital for secretly continuing gender modification procedures on minors following Gov. Greg Abbott and Attorney General Ken Paxton’s decree that such procedures would be considered child abuse.

Not only does Dr. Haim now face four indictments related to violating HIPAA, but the FBI is now targeting him for being a whistleblower.

“I read that the feds leaked your identity as the whistleblower initially to trans activists who began ... defaming you and threatening you online. Is that true?” asks Sara Gonzales.

“We have a very, very high degree of suspicion that that is the case,” Dr. Haim confirms, “and the reason is because [the FBI] showed up to my home on June 23, 2023,” and “about a week later, I started getting reviews on these doctor websites — WebMD, vitals.com, Google — that were accusing me crimes like mutilating patients, sexual abuse, all this crazy stuff.”

The specific language used in the online reviews struck Dr. Haim as odd because as the chief resident at that time, he was mostly focused on performing surgeries rather than talking with patients.

Then he started putting two and two together.

“I was the anonymous source also in a story that was released by Christopher Rufo on June 21 — completely separate from the whistleblowing story a month before — and he just wanted some of my perspectives on the transgender thing,” Haim explains.

Well, the story blew up — so much so that even Elon Musk and J.K. Rowling retweeted it. Dr. Haim should have been safe from the woke mob, however, considering he was an anonymous source.

Haim then noticed something peculiar: The people leaving nasty, accusatory reviews were using “the same exact language from [Rufo’s] article.”

“We hired a bunch of ex-Navy SEALs who were tech guys, and we subpoenaed WebMD, and we got the IP address. It was all the same IP address — every single one,” Haim tells Sara, whose jaw is on the floor.

“Then we got these Navy SEAL guys to localize it to one specific address, which we're currently working on delineating further, but there are certain roadblocks in the way that might indicate it is coming from a certain building that has special security,” he explains.

“This was all an inside job. These reviews came from the inside,” says Sara, asking whether there were “any other aggressive tactics” used against him.

“The most aggressive tactic is charging me with four federal felonies and trying to put me in prison for 10 years for charges that are as disconnected from reality as the interventions they're trying to cover up,” is Haim’s answer.

To hear the rest of the story, check out the clip below.


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Whistleblower who exposed Texas Children's Hospital for performing illegal gender modification procedures on minors SPEAKS OUT



Anyone who dares speak out against radical leftist ideology paints a giant red target on his or her back. Nobody knows this better than Dr. Eithan Haim who’s been indicted on four counts for violating HIPAA when he exposed Texas Children's Hospital for secretly continuing gender modification procedures on minors after Gov. Greg Abbott and Attorney General Ken Paxton passed a law dictating that such procedures would be considered child abuse.

“In May of 2023, Dr. Haim provided journalist Christopher Rufo with documents showing that Texas Children's was lying to the public about the existence of its transgender medicine program, including documents that had redacted ... patients’ names and identifying information, to protect himself not only from violating HIPAA but of course to protect the privacy of minors,” reports Sara Gonzales.

“The very next month, just mere hours before Dr. Haim's graduation from surgical residency, he was informed by federal agents from the Department of Health and Human Services that he was under federal investigation by the DOJ.”

“Earlier this month, Haim was indicted on four felony charges related to obtaining personal information, including patients’ names, treatment codes, and the attending physician from Texas Children's Hospital's electronic system without authorization. The feds allege he obtained this information under false pretenses and with intent to cause malicious harm to the hospital, and if convicted, Dr. Haim faces up to 10 years in prison and a fine of $250,000.”

Today, Dr. Haim joins Sara to share the details of the story.

“We have to do everything we can to beat these charges. We're going to win because if we don't, what happens is the door closes permanently for whistleblowers in health care,” says Dr. Haim.

“It just seems like the entire medical field has just veered off the tracks,” says Sara.

“It really has to do with the censorship that's been going on over the last few years. With COVID you had the complete transformation of the medical community,” where there once was “evidence-based medicine” and “rigorous debate in academic programs across the country,” Dr. Haim explained. “But after COVID, people became programmed to follow the ‘science’ ... which just means abiding by an ideology and submitting to censorship.”

According to Dr. Haim, this radical shift in the medical field is what allowed “transgender ideology ... to proliferate.”

And now we have doctors — people who swore under Hippocratic oath to “do no harm” — giving "confused adolescent children [and] pre-adolescent children cancer drugs, hormones, and radical surgeries to send them on a road where they're chasing a horizon that they're never going to be able to reach and turning them into chronic medical patients for the rest of their lives.”

“Doctors forgot that medicine is driven by human dignity,” Haim says. “It was that morality that had made American medicine the greatest in the world, but we forgot about that when we forgot about what human dignity is.”

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Camera captures moment FBI agents show up at whistleblower's home after she helps expose sex-change program at Texas hospital



The FBI dispatched two agents to the home of a Texas nurse after she spoke to journalist Christopher Rufo about the sex-change program at Texas Children's Hospital.

Last year, Rufo broke news about an elaborate sex-change program happening at Texas Children's Hospital. A whistleblower gave Rufo documents proving the hospital continued its "transgender medicine" operations despite publicly saying the program had ended. That whistleblower was Dr. Eithan Haim, whom the Justice Department has now indicted on four felony charges for allegedly violating medical privacy laws.

'They promised they would make life difficult for me if I was trying to protect the leaker.'

Haim's bravery encouraged a second whistleblower to come forward.

Last May, that whistleblower provided new insight into how physicians at Texas Children's Hospital provided "transgender medicine," explained how "transgender medicine is highly lucrative," and described her workplace as having a "demonic presence."

On Tuesday, Rufo revealed the identity of the whistleblower, registered nurse Vanessa Sivadge.

In the new report, Sivadge accused Texas Children's Hospital of engaging in Medicaid fraud.

"The largest children's hospital in the country is illegally billing Medicaid for transgender procedures," she said. "It is evident that the hospital continues to believe it is above the law not just by concealing the existence of their transgender medicine program from the public, but by stealing from the federal government."

What is shocking is what happened to Sivadge after she initially spoke to Rufo.

Two months after their conversation, Sivadge called Rufo in a "panic," he recounted. Sivadge told Rufo that two FBI agents unexpectedly showed up at her home wanting to talk about "some of the things that have been going on at work lately."

Sivadge's doorbell camera captured her partner opening the door to their home as two FBI agents flashed their badges and demanded to speak with Sivadge.

(You can view that footage here).

According to Sivadge, the FBI agents told her that she was a "person of interest" in the investigation into Dr. Haim.

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

In the months since that visit, FBI agents have not re-appeared at her home. Still, Sivadge told Rufo that she is motivated to fight against the transgender agenda.

"My faith and my gut, just knowing right from wrong, compels me," she said. "I was born for this. I have no doubt this is what I am supposed to do."

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) has confirmed that his office is investigating the newest whistleblower allegations.

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Blaze News original: Surgeon who blew whistle on genital mutilation at Texas Children's Hospital faces 4 felonies



Back in January, Blaze News shared the story of Dr. Eithan Haim, a 33-year-old, board-eligible general surgeon who publicly revealed that transgender-related medical interventions continued at Texas Children's Hospital, even after its leaders claimed they had been put on "pause." Dr. Haim now faces four federal charges in connection with his exposure of Texas Children's, and Blaze News spoke with him to learn more details about his recent interaction with armed federal agents and his unwavering desire to see the truth prevail.

'Ethically evolving standards': Haim's history with Texas Children's

From 2018 until 2023, Dr. Haim worked as a surgical resident at several Houston-area hospitals, including Texas Children's. At that time, the public outcry against gender-related medical interventions on kids — such as puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and surgical genital mutilation — grew louder and louder, and executives at Texas Children's issued a statement in March 2022, claiming that all such interventions there had been brought to a halt.

In the statement, executives expressed no concern about the potentially irreparable harm the hospital may have inflicted on its minor patients. In fact, the statement even unequivocally insisted that children can be "transgender." However, the statement did express concern about possible legal retribution against the hospital and its staff.

'We will continue to offer ... any form of care we can within the bounds of the law.'

"Texas Children’s Hospital paused hormone-related prescription therapies for gender-affirming services ... to safeguard our healthcare professionals and impacted families from potential criminal legal ramifications," it said (emphasis added).

Despite this statement suggesting the "hormone-related ... gender-affirming services" had stopped at Texas Children's, Dr. Haim discovered that they continued apace. In January 2023, nearly a year after the hospital issued the statement, the hospital hosted meetings and virtual conferences during which the gender clinic was openly discussed and medical professionals admitted they still screened minor patients for possible transgender interventions "behind their parents' back," Haim previously told Blaze News.

In May 2023, Haim exposed the continuing trans-related interventions through an article published in the City Journal. Within days, the Texas Senate passed SB 14, which banned transgender surgeries on minors, and Texas Children's CEO Mark Wallace promised to close the transgender program for good on September 1.

"We will work with patients and their families to manage the discontinuation of hormone therapies or source appropriate care outside of Texas. We will continue to offer psychosocial support and any form of care we can within the bounds of the law," Wallace wrote.

As Dr. Haim no longer works at Texas Children's, he could not definitively state whether the trans-related program there is still in operation, but he believes it is now finally defunct.

The hospital does still have a Gender Medicine Program, alternatively called the Disorders of Sexual Development division. This division includes a team of "multidisciplinary experts" who can "offer management of disorders of sexual development and respond to ethically evolving standards," its website says.

Those "multidisciplinary experts" include pediatric gynecologists. One such gynecologist offers adolescents "contraceptive counseling" and pledges to make her patients "feel comfortable, understood, and respected during their visit."

Screenshot of texaschildrens.org taken on June 7, 2024

The hospital did not respond to Blaze News' request for comment.

'I'm the one being investigated': Haim threatened with prosecution

Since Haim first came forward about the continuing trans-related interventions at Texas Children's, he has been on the radar of federal prosecutors operating under the purview of the Biden administration.

Last summer, on the same day that Haim was set to graduate from his residency program, two agents with the Department of Health and Human Services showed up at his home unexpectedly. They came to inform Haim that he was "a potential target for a criminal investigation," he previously told Blaze News.

"Within 24 hours of the story's release, what we had exposed was voted to become illegal, and I'm the one being investigated," he added with bewilderment.

After that day, the feds kept in semi-regular contact with Haim, especially after Haim's attorney wrote a letter to Congress in late January. The letter elucidated several examples of alleged misconduct on the part of federal prosecutors, who even reportedly threatened Haim's wife, who works with a Texas division of the U.S. Department of Justice.

Feds return — this time, 'heavily armed' and carrying court summons

This week, more than a year after genital mutilation procedures on children were officially outlawed in Texas, the feds made good on their threats of charges against Haim.

'There was a reason they did it like this.'

Early Tuesday morning, Haim and his wife, who is currently expecting the couple's first child, were not surprised to receive a knock on the door since they had previously scheduled an appointment with an electrician. But when Haim opened the door, he didn't see an electrician standing on his porch.

Instead, a team of "heavily armed" U.S. Marshals wearing "body armor" stood before him, he claimed. Despite the show of raw power, the agents simply confirmed Haim's identity, handed him some papers, and left. The entire process took only "a few minutes," he told Blaze News.
Haim confirmed that agents did not call ahead of time and did not forewarn his attorneys about the pending charges. Nor did they search the premises or place Haim under arrest.
Instead, the unannounced appearance and the melodramatic tactical gear seem to have been an attempt to intimidate Haim and his family. "There was a reason they did it like this," he said.
Those efforts did not work in the short-term. After briefly speaking with his attorneys, Haim still went to work that day and performed surgeries as scheduled. "It was not difficult or challenging to kind of refocus and get back to work," he claimed.
"When you're taking care of the patients, nothing else matters."

'Carefully redacted': Alleged HIPPA violations

The papers Haim received that day summoned him to court in connection with an indictment for four felony charges, but they otherwise provided very little information. Haim told Blaze News that he has a hearing in the next few weeks to find "what exactly" he has been charged with.

The City Journal reported that the charges relate to alleged violations of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996, better known by its abbreviation, HIPPA. HIPPA prohibits the unauthorized release of private medical information.

Federal prosecutors seem to believe that Haim illegally released private information regarding patients at Texas Children's, though at least one key potential witness denies that Haim did any such thing. Christopher Rufo, the anti-woke crusader with the City Journal who initially shared Haim's whistleblowing story with the world last year, claimed that none of the materials Haim shared with him "identified any individual." "All the documents were, in fact, carefully redacted," Rufo reiterated.

Haim also reiterated to Blaze News that the agents conducting the investigation into him work for the FBI, not the Department of Health and Human Services, which oversees HIPPA. However, Mark Lytle, an attorney representing Haim, claimed that it was not unusual for FBI agents to be involved in a case such as Haim's.

Lytle also provided the following statement regarding the charges against Haim:

Dr. Haim blew the whistle against a hospital that proclaimed it had stopped performing gender-changing surgeries and treatments on minors, when, in fact, it had not. These surgeries are a violation of Texas law. Dr. Haim was brave in coming forward. Now the federal government is coming after him. He will strongly defend himself at trial and we expect he will be found not guilty.

A different attorney representing Haim, Marcella Burke, likewise told City Journal that Haim will eventually be vindicated.

'Stick by the truth': Haim remains undeterred

Even with the heavy hand of the federal government reaching for him, Dr. Haim expressed to Blaze News unwavering confidence that he did the right thing in exposing the truth regarding Texas Children's previously ongoing transgender program. He also seems unintimidated by the apparent attempts to keep him quiet.

"All we have to do is tell the truth," he repeatedly told us.

"If you just stick by the truth ... [then] no matter the outcome of the case, I win," he claimed. "Because there are things worse than what's on the table, and the worst possible thing is to dishonor yourself and dishonor the truth."

"It was the hospital that was lying to the public about a program that manipulates, mutilates, and sterilizes kids," he reiterated.

"We have to not be intimidated by the ruthless tactics from this government."

He repeatedly told Blaze News that he's determined to stand for the truth in hopes of making a better world for future generations. "If we don't do this now, then what kind of world are we delivering our children into?"

'Targeting a brave man': Blaze Media team members stand with Haim

Haim certainly enjoys strong support from the team at Blaze Media.

Blaze News editor in chief Matthew Peterson shares Haim's disgust with the federal government's agenda regarding so-called "gender-affirming care" for children:

[Haim's case] amounts to an indirect attack by the federal government on Texans and our Governor Greg Abbott, who has wisely sought to ensure that our hospitals are not involved in the genital mutilation and chemical castration of children. The federal government is retaliating by targeting a brave man who revealed that our hospitals have been lying to us and performing these horrific procedures anyway, in cowardly hidden rebellion against our Governor. The fact that the Department of Justice is abusing its power to persecute Dr. Haim is not surprising these days, but it must not be tolerated or accepted.

Investigative reporter Steve Baker, who currently faces federal misdemeanor charges for simply exercising his First Amendment rights to cover the events of Jan. 6 as an independent journalist, understands firsthand the power of the federal government and its seemingly endless resources to root out those who disrupt the preferred narrative. "Haim's work is legal. My work is legal," Baker said. "They can't charge us for doing our jobs, so they have to go find something else."

Blaze Media digital strategist Logan Hall is likewise outraged and claims the charges against Haim bode ill for supporters of freedom everywhere. "What's happened to Dr. Eithan Haim should be a wake up call for every American about what we're up against in 2024," he said.

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