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.
I never knew Montana was such a radical left state.
The cancer appears everywhere...
I have yet to read a media report about one of these stunted child misfits that DIDN’T involve a dysfunctional family/parent situation.
You haven’t been to Bozeman lately.
incredibly sick.
If the government is doing this within their legal rights, then those legal rights need to be changed immediately by law. With a special session if necessary.
“Lieutenant Governor Juras has concluded that DPHHS and the court have followed state policy and law”
So change the policy and law.
Gov. Gianforte told TND that children’s rights to “grow up in happy, healthy homes with loving families” are “not always realized.”
Especially when the state steals them.
It’s not. Yet.
But Gianforte is a RINO-ish squish, just like he was in Congress, and his chances of getting elected to a second term as Governor this year just took a big hit.
An anti-gun nutzoid Democrat is opposing Gianforte, and so is a solidly conservative state House Republican in the primary. The choice is an easy one now.
I would be in jail and there would be fewer government employee’s
any hope for a primary opponent?
Death penalty for child castrators.
1984.
But doesn’t he know what he’s doing? He doesn’t know this could hurt. Badly?
The programmed destruction of the family is proceeding rather rapidly. Abortion, gay crap and tranny delusion are working well.
This is the Republican Party. Gender Trafficking. Disney groomer lovers.
Done with those.
I have no idea what “evidence” you’re talking about. And I don’t consider myself subject to much at all.
Given how many on this message board derided AC for *not* going along with the lock down mandates during the 2020 pandemic? Probably not.
Reading excerpts from another article on the subject disclosed the following: "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.”
Given that it appears the child has an actual birth mother in Canada (which I don't recall being mentioned when this story first gained notoriety), the issue of transitioning (while ludicrous in and of itself) may only be something surface-level to other underlying issues.
Waiting and seeing what the other details are (if they get publicized at all) is only prudent.
The US has gone Satanic.
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