Montana Couple Who Lost Custody for Not ‘Gender Affirming’ Daughter Files Suit

The state’s Child and Family Services sent the 14-year-old girl, who identifies as a male, to live with her biological mother in Canada.
Montana Couple Who Lost Custody for Not ‘Gender Affirming’ Daughter Files Suit
Chloe Cole, who opposes transgender treatments on minors, tearfully shares her own detransition journey in Anaheim, Calif., on Oct. 8, 2022. John Fredricks/The Epoch Times
Alice Giordano
Alice Giordano
Freelance reporter
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A Montana couple who lost custody of their 14-year-old daughter because they opposed her undergoing “gender-affirming” treatments transitioning her to a boy, has filed a federal civil rights lawsuit against the state’s Child and Family Services (CFS).

Todd Kolstad, the girl’s biological father, and Krista Cummins-Koldstad, her stepmother, were told by state social workers that their “objections to transgenderism made them unfit parents” and “they would not regain custody of their daughter unless they accepted her transgenderism,” the lawsuit states.

Alice Giordano
Alice Giordano
Freelance reporter
Alice Giordano is a freelance reporter for The Epoch Times. She is a former news correspondent for The Boston Globe, Associated Press, and the New England bureau of The New York Times.
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