Now, the progressive left is gradually pivoting from using persuasion to simply using the power of the state to force their evil ideas on gender on the rest of the population. This is what has happened in Montana, where a husband and wife lost their daughter after the government decided to step in and remove her from the household because they do not subscribe to gender ideology.

A family in Glasgow, Montana is accusing the state’s child protective services of “kidnapping” their teenage daughter after the girl began to identify as a transgender “boy.” Krista and Todd Kolstad spoke to Reduxx about their ordeal, revealing that the child had been removed from their care and was now going to be sent to Canada.

Krista, the child’s step-mother, explains that their nightmare began in August of 2023 after they received a call that their 14-year-old daughter, Jennifer*, had expressed suicidal ideations while at school.

“She had always had problems at school,” Krista says, noting that she and Todd had even pulled her from one district and sent her to another due to issues with bullying in an effort to give her a fresh start. But despite experiencing some real-world hardships, Krista claims Jennifer also had some undiagnosed mental health concerns, including attention-seeking behavior.

Later on that same evening, a case worker with Montana Child and Family Services (CFS) showed up to the Kolstad home to speak with Jennifer and do an inspection. Krista had been preparing dinner at the time, and invited the case worker to tour the residence despite both her and her husband being distressed by the sudden appearance.

During the interview with CFS, Jennifer claimed to have consumed toilet bowl cleaner and painkiller medications that day in an effort to commit suicide. Krista says that it had immediately struck her as being highly unlikely, as not only did Jennifer not have access to either substance unmonitored, but that Jennifer had expressed no symptoms of imminent illness that day.

Nevertheless, the couple decided to take Jennifer to the hospital to have her blood tested. The conclusion was that she had not ingested any harmful substances. But the situation worsened from there. The hospital’s paperwork referred to Jennifer as “male” and cited her name as “Leo” at her request.

The mother objected to the use of the other name but hospital staff refused to use Jennifer’s real name. One of the aides would routinely discuss “gender-affirming care” with Jennifer, who later began considering these treatments.

“I came one day and she was talking about having top-surgery and being non-binary,” Krista says of the aide. She took her complaint to the on-duty Doctor, who dismissed her. “He told me, ‘why are not you more concerned that your daughter is trying to harm herself, then what [the aide] is talking about?'”

Another aide who had been set to watch over Jennifer similarly chastised Krista, telling her to “respect” Jennifer’s wishes to be called “Leo.”

Despite the couple’s objections to the idea of having Jennifer go through “gender-affirming care” treatments, which is illegal in Montana, the facility said they would send Jennifer to a facility in Wyoming, where “it looked to us like kids could go ahead and have procedures done and have hormones without parental consent,” according to the mother.

After the parents pushed back on the plan to send Jennifer to Wyoming, Child and Family Services showed up at their home with law enforcement.

“They showed up at our home to serve us with papers to take Jennifer out of our care,” Krista says. “They told me the reason was that we were ‘unable or refusing to provide medical care.’ That’s just not true.”

Later, while the parents were going through the process to get their daughter back, the court gave custody to Child and Family Services on January 19.

“We were told that letting Jennifer 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 Jennifer for six months,” Krista says. “CFS is now going to place Jennifer in the care of her birth mother in Canada, who has never really been apart of her life. The judge said to us ‘you need to expect that reunification with your family may not be what you are expecting.'”

I’ve written on several similar stories and the overall battle over transing children, and this is one of the most disgusting tales that I’ve seen. The state quite literally kidnapped the couple’s daughter so that they could facilitate her “transition” to the opposite sex.

In states like Maine, California, and several others, lawmakers have passed, or are trying to pass, legislation that would allow the government to steal children from parents who do not approve of “gender-affirming care.” They justify this by claiming that refusing to have children suffering from gender dysphoria take puberty blockers and hormones is a form of child abuse from which the state must protect the minor.

These types of policies are coming to blue states near you. In fact, it wouldn’t be surprising to see a few red states adopt this practice as well. Montana isn’t exactly a bastion for progressivism, right? These sick people will get their way if we are not paying attention to what is happening in our state governments.