Mother demands investigation after school counselor gave her 13-year-old a CHEST BINDER

A Maine mother has demanded an investigation after a school counselor gave her 13-year-old daughter a chest folder and began calling her by a male name to help her social transition without parental consent.

Amber Lavigne, of Wiscasset, discovered the folder from the chest in her daughter’s bedroom while the eighth grader was at a school dance. The garment, which looked like a tank top with a built-in bra, smelled strong when she found it, as if her daughter had been hiding it and hadn’t put it in her laundry basket.

When Lavigne confronted the 13-year-old girl that night, she claimed that a friend had bought it for her. But after pressing her for more information, the young woman admitted that her folder “came from my school”;

Lavigne then learned that the Great Salt Bay School had changed her daughter’s counselor with her knowledge and that a person named Sam Roy had informed her daughter about the gender transition. He had reportedly bought two folders for the girl and told her that she didn’t need to tell her parents, and he wouldn’t either.

It is also claimed that he helped her begin the social transition at school by referring to her with a masculine name and he/he pronouns.

Lavigne, who works in mental health and considers herself “quite open-minded,” told the National Review she knew her daughter was struggling with her gender identity after a Great Salt Bay School social worker met with her at the end of seventh grade.

However, mom didn’t think much of it. Her daughter, whom she did not publicly name, had gone from a girly child, who loved nail polish and makeup, to a tomboy by the time she hit puberty.

Lavigne, who grew up a tomboy and wanted her daughter to be an athlete when she was younger, said the girl had always been “a bit of a quirk.”

“That’s one of the strangest things about this,” the mother of three told National Review. ‘I so wanted my daughter to be an athlete, because I was an athlete; I was a mean tomboy growing up.

‘I’m like: she’s going to be a basketball superstar. I couldn’t make this little girl pick up a fucking baseball and throw it at me to save her life. She liked tutus and My Little Ponies.

As her daughter entered her teens, she was surprised to discover that her daughter’s friends, who were only 11 years old at the time, had already explored their sexualities, with one identifying as pansexual and one as polysexual.

She later learned that her daughter’s counselor, Sam Roy (pictured), had bought her two folders and told her she didn’t have to tell her parents and he wouldn’t either.

Those who identify as pansexual have romantic or sexual feelings toward people regardless of gender. Polysexuals are attracted to multiple genders and are often confused with bisexuality, where a person likes both men and women.

“The first time I really started hearing her talk about gender ideology in general, she started talking about a friend who was pansexual and another friend who was polysexual,” she told National Review. ‘I’m like, why are we talking about sexual right now? You are 11.

When Lavigne was 11 years old, she herself said that she did not remember caring “about the kids in my class” and that she was “more worried about having an impromptu basketball game.”

However, the younger crowd has become socially accustomed to discussing and exploring their sexuality in recent years, with many stories in the news about parents finding their children identify differently at school than at home.

When National Review asked Lavigne if she thought her daughter’s gender confusion had anything to do with the biggest discussion within society, she replied: “110 percent.”

‘I have people in my life who work at other public schools in Maine. This is happening everywhere: one day this girl declares that she is a boy and a week later she decides that she is not,” she told the outlet.

When Lavigne contacted the school after discovering the folder in the chest, Principal Kim Schaff called her to ask what she had found inside the folder.

He said that when he first contacted principal Kim Schaff, he had received support, but that the school would later back Roy, who still works there, when he asked to meet with him.

“Because in his mind I’m talking about a three-ring binder, something you should find in a school,” he told National Review.

Although Schaff had originally shown her support, she said it was quickly taken away when she requested a meeting with her daughter’s new counselor, Roy, who had purchased the folder for her daughter without her parents’ knowledge.

Roy, whose photo has since been removed from LinkedIn and the school’s website, still works at Great Salt Bay School in Damariscotta. Lavigne has since pulled her daughter out of school and started homeschooling her.

Now, Lavigne and her lawyers through the Goldwater Institute have demanded a “full investigation into Mr. Roy’s decision to give a 13-year-old girl an undergarment without her mother’s notice, consent or involvement.”

They also claim the school’s actions violated the Fourteenth Amendment by blocking Lavigne’s “fundamental constitutional right to control and direct her daughter’s education, upbringing and health care decisions,” Goldwater’s attorney Adam Shelton wrote in a letter.

The law firm also argued that although students have confidential access to mental health care through school, social transition “is not protected by legal confidentiality.”

“Ms. Lavigne’s daughter’s ‘social transition’ without her notice, consent or participation in the process only violated her constitutional rights,” the letter said.

She has since taken her daughter out of Great Salt Bay School (pictured) and is homeschooling her. She also allowed her daughter to cut her hair, but she said that she still refers to daughter with feminine pronouns. She also said that she would not prevent her daughter from transitioning when she is of legal age, but would still express her concern.

“But even if Maine law required secrecy, such secrecy would still violate Ms. Lavigne’s constitutional rights. Ms. Lavigne has a clearly established constitutional right to control and direct decisions about the education, upbringing, and health care of her child. The actions of the School, school employees and the District have violated that right.’

Since taking his daughter out of school, he has allowed the teen to cut her hair like a boy, but still refers to his daughter with feminine pronouns.

She told National Review that she thinks her daughter is still her daughter at heart and that she still acts feminine when she’s not thinking about it. She did admit that her daughter left the barbershop “jumping down the steps with her hands floating like a fairy” after her haircut.

The mother also reiterated that she is not opposed to her daughter eventually transitioning to a man, when the time is right.

‘If she starts taking testosterone at 18 and decides to mutilate her body, am I going to express any concerns to her? Absolutely,” she told National Review. ‘Am I going to discard my son? Not in a million years. This is my girl. At the end of the day, I’m not going to destroy my relationship with my son just to be right.

“At the end of the day, she is who she is,” the mother said. “If she thinks she’s going to live a fuller life as a man, that’s for her to decide as an adult.” At 13, it’s up to me to protect my son from doing things to his body that he can’t reverse.’

DailyMail.com has contacted Great Salt Bay School for comment.

It comes after Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey’s office launched an investigation into the Washington University Transgender Center at Children’s Hospital in St. Louis.

A former employee told the Free Press the clinic administered a litany of irreparable treatments to minors, often without parental consent.

Reed says the doctors asked questions like ‘do you want a dead daughter or a living son?’ to ‘intimidate’ the children’s parents into going ahead with gender transitions, under the pretense that not doing so would make them suicidal.

The whistleblower told the outlet that working at the center, which medically transitioned 600 children in two years, was “like I was in a cult, and I had to deprogram to get out of it.”

Reed alleged, in an affidavit, that the hospital outright lied about not performing sexual transition surgeries on minors, claiming that a doctor, Dr. Allison Snyder-Warwick, performed one at the hospital in recent years.