Maine mom asks SCOTUS to intervene after school allegedly hid child’s gender transition

 by Greg Richter 

The mother of a teenage girl in Maine is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to take up the case of a public school allegedly affirming the child's gender as male without telling her.

Attorneys from the Goldwater Institute representing Amber Lavigne argue in their court petition that the school violated her right to involvement in the decision:

In December 2022, Petitioner discovered a chest binder in her 13-year-old child’s room. After speaking with her child, she learned that a social worker at her child’s public school had given her child the binder and that others had “socially transitioned” the child by using a different name and pronouns. No one from the school informed Petitioner of these decisions, and despite a written policy requiring parental involvement in such decisions, school officials have repeatedly said that school staff violated no policy by withholding this information. Petitioner sued the School Board, alleging the existence of an unwritten policy allowing employees to make these decisions without informing parents, which violated Petitioner’s fundamental right to control and direct the education and upbringing of her child. The First Circuit dismissed Petitioner’s claims, however, determining that there was a more probable “alternative explanation” than the existence of an unwritten policy.

 

Last July, the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the lower court's decision, Fox News reports.

“This situation is really about my parental rights being violated,” Lavigne said. “It’s about a social worker who had never even had a conversation with me encouraging my child to keep secrets from me.”

Regardless of whether the school had a written or unwritten policy, parents are the ultimate authority on how their children should be raised. The only time any outside entity should be allowed to legally step in is in cases of abuse. Many on the Left may believe a parent's right to raise children as their actual physical gender is somehow “abuse,” but the opposite is true: Pre- or pubescent children are not mature enough to make life-altering decisions without the input of those who care about them most — their parents.

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2026/01/maine_mom_asks_scotus_to_intervene_after_school_allegedly_hid_child_s_gender_transition.html