
Montana Couple Who Lost Custody for Not ‘Gender Affirming’ Daughter Files Suit
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. The Kolstads’ attorney, Matthew Manfornton, told The Epoch Times that the state of Montana took their daughter and “shipped her off” to Canada to live with her biological mother with whom the teen had little contact for several years....
