Posted on 02/03/2024 12:21:55 PM PST by nickcarraway
Republican Montana Gov. Greg Gianforte told The National Desk (TND) Monday state officials acted within their legal limitations by removing a child from parents who objected to their transitioning gender identity.
Montana Child and Family Services (CFS) officials took custody of the 14-year-old from parents Krista and Todd Kolstad this month, according to Reduxx. The teenager is reportedly a biological female and recently began to express suicidal thoughts.
While being treated at a hospital in August, doctors began using the child's preferred name and pronouns, which do not correspond with the child's biological sex, according to Reduxx. The parents reportedly opposed and noted allowing their child to undergo any form of gender transition, socially or medically, was a violation of their "values, morals, and ... religious beliefs."
Doctors reportedly later moved the 14-year-old to a specialized residential treatment facility in Wyoming despite the parents preferring a facility in Billings, Montana. Krista and Todd claim they were given no information as to their child’s well-being or treatment during that time, according to Reduxx.
In September, the 14-year-old was returned to Montana and placed in a group home, according to Reduxx. After four months, Krista and Todd were reportedly notified that custody was being granted to CFS and the agency would be allowing the child's birth mother in Canada to ultimately assume care.
“We were told that letting [the child] transition and live as a boy was in her ‘therapeutic best interest’ and because we aren’t willing to follow that recommendation, the court gave CFS custody of [the child] for six months,” Krista told Reduxx. "The judge said to us ‘you need to expect that reunification with your family may not be what you are expecting.'
The parents reportedly say they are now exploring their "limited" legal avenues to fight CFS and the hospital where their child was treated.
When asked to comment on the matter, Gov. Gianforte told TND that children's rights to "grow up in happy, healthy homes with loving families" are "not always realized."
“Upon hearing recent allegations related to a child welfare case, I asked Lieutenant Governor Kristen Juras – an experienced attorney, constitutional conservative, mother, and grandmother – to review it,” Gov. Gianforte said. “Consulting with the director of DPHHS and personally examining case documents, Lieutenant Governor Juras has concluded that DPHHS and the court have followed state policy and law in their handling of this tragic case.”
Gov. Gianforte continued, noting a Montana law prohibiting medical gender transitions for minors.
“Our administration will continue to advance policies that strengthen our families and protect Montana kids, like what we have done to promote adoption and to ban permanent, invasive, life-altering medical procedures on children, like puberty blockers, hormonal treatments, and sex-reassignment surgeries," he said.
Note that this atrocity was instigated by “doctors.”
It is very left leaning, Godless state, but fiscally conservative.
How did this rat pretender get elected?
This is clearly a highly unusual custodial situation, and what I find very telling is that there appears to be no dispute among the various parties that the kid does need to be institutionalized.
Another Freeper suggested the other day that he’d disown this kid and pretend he/she/it had never been born if he was a parent in this situation. That Freeper make have taken some grief for it, but I’d have a hard time blaming anyone for feeling that way.
If they can STEAL your children...
>>You haven’t been to Bozeman lately.
This appears to involve the Frances Mahon Deaconess Hospital in Glasgow, MT.
If someone adopts a child, then the birth parents can come along and decide to change the child's sex at any point?
Are you talking about Anthony Cuomo? I thought he did go along with mandates, and I remember him being bashed here. Am I missing something?
I’m not sure this was an adoption situation. It may be that the kid was living with the natural father and stepmother, while the natural mother is living in Canada.
This gender ID and so much more started with Obama and his NAMBLA puke education CZAR. Little boys were his target. When I grew up we had nothing other than male or female. Fags never
were open until Obama. This Governor is trash.
Every day the Local/State/Federal Governments continue to prove they are totally inept at ruling.
AC = Alberta’s Child
Why can't they wait until the child is 18 before they permanently alter them?
Like Jackson Hole?
The Montana parents are the biological father and stepmother.
The stepmother appears to be most vocal about the situation.
She did not get surgery in Wyoming.
No Word Of Surgeries
Sheila Bush, executive director of the Wyoming Medical Society, a lobby group of doctors, told Cowboy State Daily last week that her group has not found any doctors performing sex-change surgeries on minors.
Her organization searched through state medical coding records and found no evidence that a transgender surgery has ever happened in Wyoming, Bush said. She added that’s likely because an extensive sub-specialty team is needed to perform these operations, which also doesn’t exist in Wyoming.
Good quote + picture = excellent post.
They usually put them on hormones before any surgeries. In Washington state and Montana, adults can get hormones prescribed the same day as their first consultation when they tell their doctor “I was born in the wrong body.”
The clowns that got their hooks into Colorado are making “progress” in Montana. The last time I was in Butte, I saw that they had a street named after Elizabeth Warren. Damn I hate that.
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