When a 13-year-old girl said she actually was a boy, teachers at her Maine school started using male pronouns for her and a counselor gave her a breast binder to wear to create the appearance of a flatter chest.
No one told her mother.
Amber Lavigne said she discovered the device in her daughter’s bedroom. It was then that the child admitted a staff member at the Great Salt Bay Community School had given it to her, as well as changing the name and pronouns she used at school, Lavigne told her community’s school board members during a public meeting on Dec. 14.
The youngster was told to keep it a secret from her parents, which caused her increasing “stress, anxiety, and depression,” Lavigne told the school board of the Central Lincoln County School System (CLCSS) AOS 93. The district serves seven rural communities in mid-coast Maine.
“Utilizing these devices can cause serious side effects,” Lavigne told board members.
Studies suggest breast binders can cause back pain, shortness of breath, chest pain, skin problems, and rib fractures.
When Lavigne expressed concern to school officials for “this heinous act, they expressed grave concern,” she told board members.
Her daughter had turned 13 just a month before.
“She’s a minor child—my minor child!” the mother said, fighting tears throughout her three-minute opportunity to speak at the meeting. “And under no circumstances should she have been provided a chest binder without the knowledge of the parents.”
The school won’t release notes from meetings between the social worker and the child, Lavigne told board members.
A worker “at the school encouraged a student to keep a secret from their parents!” Lavigne said. “This is the very definition of child predatory sexual grooming. Predators work to gain a victim’s trust by driving a wedge between them and their parents.”
Voice quavering, Lavigne demanded that all employees with “knowledge of the secret be immediately terminated from their positions,” and “that our child’s records be released to us. Laws, policies, and parental trust were broken.”
A wedge was driven between the child and her parents, Lavigne continued.
“Consider for a moment if this was your child,” she said. “What would you do? No other parent should have to go through the trauma and distress that this has caused my family.”
Maine parental rights advocate Shawn McBreairty posted the video of Lavigne’s speech to Rumble.
Since the meeting, Lavigne has told The Epoch Times by text message that she plans to file a complaint with the Maine Human Rights Commission.
Lavigne and her lawyer declined to speak further with The Epoch Times, citing plans to file a lawsuit.
The Epoch Times reached out to the Great Salt Bay Community School, CLCSS AOS 93, and the school board members for comment. Calls and emails were not returned.
Secret Counsel
The social worker who worked with Lavigne’s child, Sam Roy, is a graduate student with a conditional state license to practice social work. In 2016, he served as a public relations officer for the “Wilde Stein: Queer Straight Alliance,” a University of Maine LGBT group.
The staffer who was coaching her daughter’s transition to living publicly as a boy wasn’t alone in the secret, Lavigne said. Other school officials also took part, she alleged, by hiding from her the child’s use of male pronouns at school.
After Lavigne’s story went public, the Great Salt Bay Community School removed its staff directory from its website, according to internet archive the Wayback Machine.
The school also posted a statement on its website, saying some individuals had spread “rumors and allegations” online to “try and divide our community.” The statement never said what issue it addressed.
The Great Salt Bay Community School Board’s statement also claimed it made decisions based on Maine law, but never specified what these decisions were.
“When administrators receive concerns from parents and/or students about potential issues in school, the Board has specific policies and procedures in place that must be followed when addressing those concerns. Those policies comply with Maine law, which protects the right of all students and staff, regardless of gender/gender identity, to have equal access to education, the supports and services available in our public schools, and the student’s right to privacy regardless of age,” the statement reads.
Maine lawmakers now are considering a state educational rule that would allow social workers and school counselors to keep secrets about children from parents.
Chapter 117 of Maine’s Department of Education guidelines would make conversations between school counseling staff and children confidential to parents. Chapter 117 is not yet law.
In November, parental rights activist Alvin Lui predicted to The Epoch Times that Maine could soon allow social workers to provide breast binders to students without parental consent.
What Lavigne says happened to her daughter shows how gender activists can influence children, Lui said. They may lie to parents to get children to commit to permanent body alteration. They may urge pronouns, then binders, then hormones, then surgery, he added.
“All they’re trying to do is to put you off as long as they can, so that it can move your child through the train,” Lui said.
Maine parental rights advocate Shawn McBreairty promoted a fundraiser for Lavigne’s case on Twitter. The GiveSendGo account has raised $1,241 of the $2,000 goal “to help Amber and her family with her initial legal retainer,” he told his audience on Twitter.
In another post, McBreairty noted that six of Maine’s most influential news outlets didn’t cover the school’s attempt to transition the child without the mother’s knowledge.
That’s how “you know the sexual grooming is real,” he said.
In a written interview with The Epoch Times, McBreairty said he expects Maine’s government to draw out Lavigne’s case to make it expensive.
“If Ms. Lavigne and her legal team decide on what legal grounds they could sue the school, I would think, in a morally sound and legitimate legal system, they would easily win,” he wrote.
‘Irreparably Broken’ Schools
The case could be a turning point for the United States, as parents realize public schools are “irreparably broken,” McBreairty said. He touts school choice as a solution.
America’s public schools now want to “separate the minor child from their parents,” he said. If students go there, they run the risk of getting indoctrinated into radical gender beliefs, he warned. He said parents must either “fight like hell” to recapture schools, or remove their children before it’s too late.
What happened to Lavigne’s daughter easily could happen elsewhere in the state, he added.
Licensed clinical social worker Christopher McLaughlin was elected for a three-year term that began in July to serve on the Hermon School Committee in Maine. He has publicly said he won’t warn parents about children questioning their gender identity or sexual orientation. He added that even if a child might be in danger because of the behavior they exhibit in their new gender identity, he would never tell parents.
McLaughlin also works as an adjunct faculty member at the University of Maine in Orono and at Husson University in Bangor, Maine.
“It is not ever my role, regardless of where I am practicing, to out that kid to their parent, even if there are safety issues present,” McLaughlin said in a Zoom meeting McBreairty uploaded to Rumble.
McLaughlin leads the Maine chapter of the National Association of Social Workers.
“If it can happen in little Damariscotta, Maine, a town of some 2,500, where the school board is dominated by Democrats, it can happen anywhere,” McBreairty wrote to The Epoch Times. “When will you take your children’s education as seriously as their lives?”
I hope the parents file and win one helluva lawsuit and I hope the responsible members of that school board are fired and serve jail time. This gender transitioning BS needs to stop and just slapping the hands of the offenders is not going to be enough to deter it.
A worker “at the school encouraged a student to keep a secret from their parents!” Lavigne said. “This is the very definition of child predatory sexual grooming. Predators work to gain a victim’s trust by driving a wedge between them and their parents.”
The LGBTQ Con and deception is just to want “equality, acceptance and tolerance.”
These LGBTQ’s are the open practitioners of the infamous crime against GOD and nature,
Who sold their souls to the malicious, venomous bullies of Organized LGBTQ mafia.
These Sodomites, will not tolerate and will attack and attempt to destroy anyone and anything not accepting and promoting their degenerate, sexually perverted lifestyle.
To fully advance the Lying, Treasonous, Demonic, Woke, Socialist Democrat Party’s destructive beliefs and agendas is to divide our citizens with hate and promote – racism, open borders, radical feminism, abortion-on-demand, the LGBTQ lifestyle, unfettered sexual identity, transgender, same sex marriage, child indoctrination into sexual confusion and perversions, the pagan Liberal left Democrats must do away with GOD, our Constitution, common sense, morality, Christian values and free religious exercise altogether.
Under the of Disguise of Democrats versions of “anti-discrimination.”
And yet Democrat Fools and useful idiots Still vote and support the treasonous, destructive, immoral, unethical, woke Democrat Party. 🙁 🙁 🙁
COMMENTI was in the Navy in the 60s, I was a good looking young man. This drew the predators out of the woodwork and an underlying truth is they weren’t “dainties”, they were aggressively violent. I befriended some over the years and they explained to me that their life choice demands a violent defense, so only the strong survive. I’ve seen some of the most secretive give over to activism as they became vocal. I’ve traded blows with enough to know they aren’t soft. We are seeing that today. Sodom and Gomorrah makes more sense to me today.
I doubt they will even get Fired, LET ALONE JAILED, which is what bloody well NEEDS to happen..
Fired, maybe; jail time, not likely, unfortunately.
There is only one solution to protect your child. Get them out of the public school system. It is packed with perverts.
No, the solution is to make child predatory sexual grooming a felony and put these disgraceful podophiles in prison for 30 years, where they themselves will be sexually abused or worse.
TILL the policies that enable this perversion are also changed, merely sending some to jail, IMO WON’T change much.
Recall every one on that school board. This disgusting act to turn kids into a different gender has to stop. To the gay people keep your hands off the children. Your perversion to little children will only be the end to your jobs. Put the blame where it belongs, Joe Biden and Obama. The two biggest screwups to sit in the White House! They are destroying morals, children’s lives, giving prizes to gay for just being gay. Decent people get nothing but suffering from Biden and his sick mind. A pervert as president and not one person in Congress does anything to stop this traitor.
GIVE them all a public neutering or spaying.. AND DO NOT USE ANY Anesthetic.
We have confidently ceded our children’s tutelage to an academic community that has embraced communism. This has been going on since the 60s and this academic exceptionalism has been inculcated generationally. You want to make exraordinary money and live ex parte from the hoi polloi? Become an idealized educator, particularly collegiate or higher. The contract of parental trust has been violated continually and this is what we reap.
Sadly, this will devolve to the point that some disgusted parents start to take violent action against the reprobates. Then they will be prosecuted for attempting to protect their children from creatures too vile to be free to roam the earth. That is what is being done to our country by people we elected to serve us under the laws and Constitution of our republic. The only solution is a return to Christianity through sincere prayer.
AND You can bet the wokistas at the FBI and DOJ, would go after those parents, with ALL THE FORCE they can muster.
I feel sorry for your daughter. However, you keep feeding the crocodile, the crocodile will eat you last! The reprobate Democrats you keep voting for, are absolutely laughing at you and screwing you over, again!!!
YOU assume that the mother DID VOTE democrat… THOUGH with the way the vast chunk of the state was red, BUT BIDEN STILL WON IT, makes me wonder, WHERE in main she is.
Every parent with a minor child need to unite and DEMAND from the school board exactly what they are doing behind the parents back and then file lawsuits against evewry school member that does not provide the information requested. Do not let them drag the request out for months and months while doing child abuse acts in the meantime. PARENTS UNITE.
Keep suing.. Eventually they will get the message.
.”Jackson Elliott, The Epoch Times | Jan 2, 2023 | News
Adolf Hitler Realized early- on the importance of the educational Institutions in shaping of the youth’s mind when he said,” When an opponent Declaire’s, ” I will not come over to your side,” I Calmly say, ” Your Child belongs to us already…What are you? You will pass on. Your descendants, However, now stand in the new camp. In a short time, they will know nothing else but this new community.”
John Dewey Also realized the Importance of Education in forming the young minds away from what their parents taught their children at home.
Give me 5 years with the kids, and the roots of what i sow, will never get undone.. IIRC that was also one of his quotes.