Montana couple who lost custody of 14-year-old daughter after refusing to let her transition to a boy using drugs off AMAZON claims she was taken without a warrant as they sue the state
A Montana couple who lost custody of their 14-year-old daughter after refusing to allow her transition claims the teen was taken by the state without a warrant.
Todd and Krista Kolstads have filed state and federal lawsuits claiming that their child, born Jennifer but currently identified as Leo, was taken from them because they opposed their gender transition due to their religious beliefs.
In one of the lawsuits, they allege that the state’s child protective services agency lied to a judge to take the 14-year-old child without a warrant, as reported by police. Daily Montanan.
The teen was taken from their father and stepmother’s home last summer after their school called claiming they had tried to kill themselves with toilet bowl cleaner and painkillers.
The state said it was trying to find a psychiatric place for the child and sent her to a facility in Wyoming and a group home in Billings. The child is now under the custody of their biological mother in Canada.
Todd and Krista Kolstads have filed state and federal lawsuits claiming that their child, born Jennifer but currently identified as Leo, was taken from them because they opposed their gender transition. The teenager (left) in the photo with parents Todd and Krista Kolstad and their sister
Montana Gov. Greg Gianforte has called the situation “tragic,” but Lt. Gov. Kristen Juras concluded that the Department of Health and Human Services and the court had “followed state policy and law.”
As part of the ongoing legal challenge, the couple sent a cease and desist letter to Juras, demanding that she stop lying about the affair and apologize to them.
In their cease and desist motion, the parents allege, “You have said that the seizure of the Kolstads’ daughter by CPS was lawful and you have repeatedly accused the Kolstads of lying about the seizure of their daughter… You you have it exactly the other way around – it is your statements about the Kolstads that are baseless, malicious and defamatory under Montana law.
![Montana couple who lost custody of 14-year-old daughter after refusing to let her transition to a boy using drugs off AMAZON claims she was taken without a warrant as they sue the state 2 Montana parents Krista and Todd Kolstad lost custody of their 14-year-old daughter, Jennifer, who now identifies as Leo, after obtaining gender reassignment hormones through Amazon](https://nybreaking.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/1716387268_202_Montana-couple-who-lost-custody-of-14-year-old-daughter-after-refusing.jpeg)
Montana parents Krista and Todd Kolstad lost custody of their 14-year-old daughter, Jennifer, who now identifies as Leo, after obtaining gender reassignment hormones through Amazon
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As part of the ongoing legal challenge, the couple sent a cease and desist letter to Montana Lieutenant Governor Kristen Juras, demanding that she stop lying about the matter and apologize to them.
The letter continued: “CPS employees instead captured the Kolstads’ daughter and brought her to Wyoming against her parents’ wishes. CPS did this because they believed the Kolstads’ objections to transgenderism made them unfit parents.
“They told the Kolstads that their daughter would not be returned to them until they accepted her transgenderism. When the Kolstads refused to compromise their faith, CPS workers took their daughter to her birth mother in Canada.”
Before the child was taken by the state, the teen reportedly obtained gender transition hormones through Amazon so the parents wouldn’t find out.
“One of her friends ordered her hormones from Amazon and had them sent to her house, not ours, and then gave them to our daughter, Jennifer. You don’t have to prove you’re 18 or anything,” Krista Kolstad told the Post-Millennial.
![Montana couple who lost custody of 14-year-old daughter after refusing to let her transition to a boy using drugs off AMAZON claims she was taken without a warrant as they sue the state 6 Krista is the teen's stepmother, while Todd is the girl's biological father](https://nybreaking.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/1716387274_922_Montana-couple-who-lost-custody-of-14-year-old-daughter-after-refusing.jpeg)
Krista is the teen’s stepmother, while Todd is the girl’s biological father
Krista, the teen’s stepmother, and their father Todd, said the child had a difficult upbringing and several undiagnosed mental health problems, including attention-seeking behavior and lying, which they said caused the urge to transition and was influenced by social services were overlooked. .
The teenager had first expressed his wish to change gender to his parents at the age of 13.
The parents said she was too young to make such a decision and sent them to counseling to explore why they felt that way.
![Montana couple who lost custody of 14-year-old daughter after refusing to let her transition to a boy using drugs off AMAZON claims she was taken without a warrant as they sue the state 8 The couple opposed their child's transition because of their personal moral and religious beliefs](https://nybreaking.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/1716387278_552_Montana-couple-who-lost-custody-of-14-year-old-daughter-after-refusing.jpeg)
The couple opposed their child’s transition because of their personal moral and religious beliefs
“We were told that it was in her ‘therapeutic best interests’ to have Jennifer transitioned and live as a boy, and because we are unwilling to follow that recommendation, the court has granted custody of Jennifer for six months, Krista told Reduxx.
The Kolstads said the teen had a traumatic upbringing and claimed their birth mother ran away when they were young and was only around sporadically.
Statements from the teen and their sister’s counselor showed them describing their birth mother as uncaring, abusive and “crazy.”