Amber Lavigne v. Great Salt Bay Community School Board, et al.

Bangor, Maine personal injury lawyer represented the Plaintiff on a civil rights violation claim.<br>
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Plaintiff Amber Lavigne initiated this lawsuit against the Great Salt Bay Community School Board (the "Board") and various individual members of the school staff1 (together, "defendants"), alleging that defendants infringed on her constitutional right to parent. Lavigne claims that defendants acted unconstitutionally by providing her child, A.B., a chest binder -- "a device used to flatten a female's chest so as to appear male" -- and referring to A.B. by a name and set of pronouns different from those given to A.B. at birth without telling Lavigne, adhering to what Lavigne alleges is a school-wide policy of withholding such information. <br>
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A.B. started at Great Salt Bay Community School ("Great Salt"), a kindergarten through eighth grade school, in 2019, and,<br>
initially, Lavigne was "generally pleased" with the education A.B. received. However, in December 2022, when A.B. was thirteen, Lavigne and A.B. were cleaning A.B.'s room when Lavigne discovered a chest binder, which the complaint defines as "a device used to flatten a female's chest so as to appear male." A.B. told Lavigne that defendant Samuel Roy, a school social worker, provided the chest binder and instructed A.B. on how to use it. Lavigne also alleges that, on the same day, Roy gave A.B. a second chest binder and informed A.B. that "he was not going to tell A.B.'[s] parents . . . and A.B. need not do so either." Lavigne was never informed that A.B. would be or had been given a chest binder and

Motion to dismiss granted.<br>
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Affirmed