A public school worker at Great Salt Bay Community School who coached a 13-year-old girl into a gender transition without telling her parents has only a conditional license to practice social work in Maine, The Maine Wire has learned.
Amber Lavigne, the mother of the young girl, revealed at a school board meeting Wednesday that she discovered a chest binder in her daughter’s bedroom several weeks ago. Her daughter told her the binder was provided by a social worker at the public school who encouraged her to keep it secret from her parents, she said.
That’s when Lavigne learned that the social worker and other school staff had started a social gender transition for the girl in October without her parent’s knowledge or consent.
Sources have confirmed that the social worker in question is Sam Roy, a 26-year-old UMaine graduate student who has a conditional license from the state of Maine to work as a social worker.
Roy started working with the Damariscotta school this fall.
Roy has scheduled to graduate next year from the University of Maine with his Master’s Degree in social work, according to his LinkedIn page, but records indicate he passed his masters exam in June.
Roy earned his Bachelor’s Degree in psychology and social work from the University of Maine in 2020.