Plus, get a free bottle of fiber and spice that's bounceofnature.com promo code Walsh. Texas Children's Hospital in Houston is the largest children's hospital in the world. They treat more than 4 million patients under the age of 21 every year, most of them minors. And because of the hospital's size and prestige, what happens at TCH doesn't just affect those patients. What happens at TCH also influences other major children's hospitals all around the world and how they conduct their operations. And that's what makes the reporting out of Texas Children's Hospital this year, most of it done by Chris Rufo, impossible to ignore, even if the media, of course, would like to ignore it and has ignored it. In the span of a little over a year, two whistle-blowers have come forward to allege that TCH is systematically deceiving the public and potentially violating the law. Now, the first whistle-blower, a general surgeon Ethan Haim, provided records to Rufo, which demonstrated that TCH had not in fact shut down its child sex change program as promised. And this was significant because the Attorney General of Texas, Ken Paxton, had just released a legal opinion stating that child sex change surgeries as well as cross-sex hormone treatments constitute child abuse under Texas law. So TCH claimed that they shut the program down in order to avoid prosecution. And as the hospital put it, they wanted to safeguard our health care professionals and impacted families for potential criminal legal ramification. So they stood by the child's sterilization, but they said they had no choice but to comply with the Attorney General so they wouldn't all be arrested. Now, according to Rufo's reporting, Haim provided redacted records proving that TCH then quietly restarted the program without informing the public. In effect, they didn't really shut it down at all. Haim didn't give Rufo any personally identifying information about any patients and no personally identifiable information was ever released publicly. He provided only the information that was necessary to verify that TCH was continuing to perform procedures related to child sex change surgeries in apparent defiance of the Attorney General. For example, the records reportedly demonstrated that TCH allowed a doctor to, quote, insert a non-biodegradable drug delivery implant into an 11-year girl who identified as transgender. Records also indicated that several children between the ages of 11 and 15 received these implants among many other procedures. The Texas legislator clearly thought that Haim's revelations were worth acting on. The very next day after Rufo published his report on Haim's claims, the Texas legislator voted in bipartisan fashion to ban so-called gender-affirming care for minors. So the attorney general's legal opinion wasn't just an opinion anymore. It was binding on hospitals like TCH. On these facts, there's no question that Ethan Haim is a whistleblower by any definition. He chose to risk his career, which was just beginning, to provide information that his employer might be systematically violating the law. And not just any law, but a law designed to protect children from being abused and permanently sterilized. And on top of that, Haim's evidence indicated that TCH might be lying to the public, which is a pretty big deal when you're talking about a children's hospital. If they're willing to lie about castrating children, it might lead you to wonder what else they're willing to lie about, and how deep the corruption goes. Haim's disclosures directly led to a substantial change in Texas's law and record time, which means that by definition they were highly relevant to the public interest. You cannot define whistleblower any more clearly than that, I think. But Joe Biden and Kamala Harris' DOJ didn't see it that way. So a month later, they sent federal agents to his door to inform him that he was under investigation for HIPAA violations. And shortly afterwards, he was indicted. Watch. The question now is whether the doctor violated HIPAA when he accessed those patients' information. The government says he did. The doctor says he's a whistleblower. You know, I maintained from day one that I had done nothing wrong. This is Dr Ethan Haym, a former resident physician at Texas Children's Hospital. Today, the Department of Justice claims he obtained protected health information for patients that were not under his care without permission. In a four count indictment, the FBI says the doctor obtained personal information, including patient names, treatment codes, and the names of patients physicians through the TCH electronic system without authorization. Prosecutors say he did this under false pretenses in order to cause malicious harm to the hospital by passing the information along to a media contact. So according to DOJ, Ethan Haim wanted to cause malicious harm to the hospital. They're not concerned about the permanent harm that this massive and well-funded hospital may be causing to children. Instead, the prosecutors are worried about the harm that the hospital might suffer when the public learns about the harm they're doing to children in defiance of the attorney general on Texas law. This is a hospital that, by the way, receives a lot of money and tax breaks from the government. So we have every right to know, as the public, we have every right to know what it's doing. But apparently the hospital's employees are not allowed to harm the hospital by informing the public about the procedures that they're performing. You might remember that Democrats didn't always treat whistleblowers this way. During the Trump administration, a CIA operative who was assigned to the White House leaked classified recordings of Trump to Adam Schiff. And that led to the first impeachment trial. We weren't even allowed to know the CIA operative's name at any point during the proceedings. Corporate media outlets refused to tell us. Even in Congress, lawmakers were told it was off limits to reveal his identity. John Roberts, who was presiding over the impeachment, enforced that rule. So this was a whistleblower who wasn't even alleging that Trump had violated any law. And yet this CIA employee was treated with such reverence that to this day we're not allowed to say his name in public. Ethan Haim, who actually displayed real bravery, who disclosed relevant information about a children's hospital, now faces up to a decade in prison if convicted. His life gets destroyed, his career ended, all for telling the truth. And he's not the only one. This week a nurse named Vanessa Sivage revealed that she was recently fired by Texas Children's Hospital. Her crime was alleging that TCH bills Medicaid to provide puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones to children in violation of federal law. TCH immediately denied this allegation. Then the Biden administration sent more federal agents to harass her at her home. Because that's what happens when you start saying inconvenient things about so-called gender-affirming care, quote-unquote, watch. Hello? Alright. I'm looking for Vanessa's Cidage. Okay. Yeah. Hello, are you? I'll make some in the FBI. Okay. This is it. Hi, how are you? I'm just going to knock up on you. You want a seat tip? Are we interrupting dinner? I'm really sorry. That's all right. What's going on? Let me start at the beginning. So I'm sure you're aware of some of the things that have been going on at your work lately. With regards to... Yeah, so I gotta... Can I... Can we sit down for a minute? Let me do my song and dance. Now, the only reason these agents showed up to Civeg's home was to intimidate her. They weren't there to arrest her. They weren't there to inform her that she was the target of any investigation. The point was to imply that she'd better keep her mouth shut because the federal government was watching her. Now, in a letter to Rufo, Sivij said that she had attempted to transfer away from the endocrine unit as a last-ditch effort to avoid working in this area of so-called medicine, but the hospital refused her request. Quote, this past Friday, on August 16th, TCH fired me, effective immediately. This is unlawful for two reasons. It is retaliation for my coming forward with information on TCH's egregious pattern of deception and Medicaid fraud. This action also illegally disregarded my request to transfer due to my belief that these procedures provide irreversible harm and lifelong regret to children confused by their sex. If it's true that TCH is defrauding Medicaid, it wouldn't be particularly surprising. Last year I posted a Twitter thread looking to two of the largest so-called trans healthcare providers, known as plume and folks. And both of these providers indicated that they diagnosed patients with dysphoria, even if they don't really have it, in order to ensure that the insurance pays out, which is fraud. In fact, folks openly admitted that they were doing this on their website. This is the kind of apparent fraud that can take place openly when your industry has the full backing of the Biden DOJ. When you know the government's on your side, you can admit to fraud in public and no one does anything. It's the people who point out the fraud, who get harassed and even jailed. What's especially troubling about the situation at TCH is that Vanessa Sivage was clearly in a position to know if the hospital was defrauding Medicaid. She interacted with doctors who were ordering various procedures and medications. She coordinated prescription refills all the time. She once taught a child how to inject sex change hormones. It was her job, which she performed up until the moment that she realized how immoral it was. And as Sividge put it, quote, In the cardiac clinic we were taking sick kids and making them better. In the transgender clinic, it was the opposite. We were harming these kids. So there's only two possibilities here. Either this nurse is, for some reason, lying about her own first-hand observations, and doing so in order to completely destroy her own career and her own life. Or like Ethan Haim, she's telling the truth. And right now, the latter explanation seems a whole lot more believable. In response to her termination, Sivich posted just two words on social media, worth it. Now, that's the kind of response you'd expect from someone who knows that the Texas Attorney General's investigation is going to validate everything she said. It's a rare example of bravery in an industry that is sorely lacking it, and it's exactly what it will take to end this insanity and stop the mutilation and sterilization of children. I mean, these whistleblowers, just two of them, alone, have had major impact. What happens next at Texas Children's Hospital could determine what happens not just to the millions of children in their care, but to all the other children's hospitals that look to TCH for guidance. And what's needed now is for more whistleblowers to come forward to follow their conscience and what they know is right and to expose this fraudulent, abusive industry for what it is.