Education and Title IX

Maine mother Amber Lavigne, represented by the Goldwater Institute, has petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court to review her parental‑rights lawsuit alleging Great Salt Bay Community School staff gave her 13‑year‑old a chest binder and used a different name and pronouns at school without informing her. After a federal district judge dismissed the suit in 2024 and the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld that decision in July 2025, the petition asks the Court to clarify whether parents have a constitutional right to be notified when public schools recognize and facilitate a child’s gender transition and whether courts may dismiss such cases based on "alternative explanations" before evidence is developed. The article also notes separate Title IX investigations in which the U.S. Department of Education found Maine not in compliance over biological males in girls’ sports and has begun the process of cutting off federal K‑12 education funding to the state.