by Steve Watson, Modernity News:
A Massachusetts family has spent nearly two years fighting the state for custody of their daughter after a public school socially transitioned her behind their backs and child-welfare officials treated the parents’ refusal to play along as the crime.
Joseph and Arlene Kutzko, devout Catholics, say staff at Algonquin Regional High School began treating their daughter Sophie as a boy without telling them. In December 2024, when Sophie was 15, the Department of Children and Families removed her from the home because her parents would not recognize her as male.
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Physical-abuse claims against Joseph were later deemed unfounded. That did not stop a permanent restraining order or DCF cutting off contact after the couple still would not use a male name and pronouns.
🚨 OMG. In a terrifying case, these Catholic parents in Massachusetts had their daughter TAKEN AWAY by the state because they refused to let her transition and affirm her as a BOY
The school went behind their back to teach her gender ideology, and the counselor did it without… pic.twitter.com/HC4kGYPdMD
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Sophie is now 17. The family says the state housed her in a boys’ dormitory, denied her Sunday Mass, and put her on birth control and psychiatric drugs. Officials are now seeking court approval for high-dose testosterone.
The Kutzkos want her home and a full psychological evaluation first. Their attorney, Vernadette Broyles, is also pressing Congress so that a parent’s refusal to medically or socially transition a child is never branded “child abuse.”
The pattern is not unique to one Massachusetts high school. In Ludlow, parents Stephen Foote and Marissa Silvestri alleged Baird Middle School socially transitioned their children in secret, used opposite-sex names and pronouns at school, and used legal names when speaking to mom and dad. The First Circuit sided with the district. The Supreme Court declined the case in April 2026.
