428. They Took Our Daughter | Todd & Krista Kolstad

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast

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🗓️ 4 March 2024

⏱️ 97 minutes

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Dr. Jordan Peterson speaks in-person with Todd and Krista Kolstad. They discuss their ongoing court battle with the state of Montana surrounding the removal of their daughter from their home, and then to Canada, for lack of gender affirmation. Krista Cummins-Kolstad was born and raised in Akron, Ohio. After mortuary school, she moved to Flathead County, Montana where she spent the next 13 years as a licensed mortician and funeral director. She married Todd Kolstad in 2017 and recently moved to Glasgow Montana to give her daughter a fresh start. She has been working with her husband Todd at his company, Montana Technical Solutions since 2021. A Glasgow, Montana native, Todd Kolstad spent his high school years in the Phoenix, Arizona area. He served in the Air Force from 1987 to 1991 mostly stationed in Kadena Air Base with the 12th tactical fighter squadron. After his military service he worked for Siemens nuclear power for 10yrs doing nuclear instrumentation. He then worked for KLA-Tencor performing laser alignment robotics globally. He then returned to the glasgow Montana area and started the company he has today: Montana Technical Solutions. Todd has five children with his ex wife. He moved to the flathead valley area where he met and married Krista Cumm. - Links - 2024 tour details can be found here https://jordanbpeterson.com/events Peterson Academy https://petersonacademy.com/ For Todd & Krista Kolstad: Given Send Go campaign to help with legal fees https://www.givesendgo.com/GBMG9

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0:00.0	The So hi everybody I'm here with Todd and Krista Colstadt today and there are a couple
0:20.9	from Northeast Montana who've had the misfortune to have their sleeves caught in the Child Protection Services maw.
0:28.6	And their daughter started making claims of variant gender identity in 2021 and then got tangled in online interactions that led to the arrival of Child Protection Service at the doorstep of the
0:46.0	Colstads. And to say things went downhill from there is to say almost nothing.
0:51.6	I highly recommend that you watch this podcast, especially if you regard
0:55.8	yourself, let's say, and your family as sort of typical middle-class Americans trying to live a quiet and normal life because you need to know what might
1:06.0	happen to people who are complacent enough to imagine that such a thing is
1:11.7	possible under the circumstances that obtained today.
1:15.1	This is a cautionary tale and it's a rough one.
1:18.1	So join us and go down the rabbit hole of state mandated gender affirming care.
1:25.0	Well, thank you for flying here and talking to me today.
1:30.0	I presume we're going to have a difficult conversation.
1:33.0	We are.
1:34.0	Yes, I imagine so.
1:35.0	So we'll start really at the beginning,
1:40.0	you have five children.
1:42.0	Todd has five children. Todd has five children.
1:44.0	Yes, five children.
1:45.0	Okay, okay, and how long have you guys been married?
1:48.0	We've been married seven years?
1:50.0	Yes.
1:51.0	Together about...
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