NEWS: Burke Law Group has secured a False Claims Act settlement through its lawsuit against Texas Children’s Hospital. Vanessa Sivadge (@V_Sivadge) was the whistleblower-plaintiff in the case, whose proceedings were kept under wraps as is required in such lawsuits. Per @BurkeLawTweets: “Under the terms of the agreement, Texas Children’s will: •Pay $10 million in penalties; •Build and operate a free Detransition Clinic that will deliver full-service care to patients who underwent sex-rejecting “gender-transition” procedures at any hospital or clinic nationwide; •Publicly admit in a written statement that it made false statements to the public about its practices and acknowledge its legal obligations going forward; •Permanently terminate and revoke the privileges of five physicians who carried out the prohibited procedures with an agreement never to re-hire or credential them; •Implement sweeping operational reforms including training healthcare professionals on the dangers and illegality of sex-rejecting “gender transition” treatments or procedures, including training employees on how to blow the whistle if they witness same; •Rewrite its institutional bylaws so that any physician who engages in prohibited sex-rejecting, “gender-transition” procedures on minors automatically forfeits clinical privileges; and •Commit to a permanent prohibition on sex-rejecting, “gender-transition” services at any of its facilities.”