The specialized suicide-prevention counseling service for LGBTQ youths and young adults received more than 1.3 million contacts since the program’s start in 2022, advocates said.NBC NewsBy Jo YurcabaJune 10, 2025The Department of Health and Human Services’ proposed budget for 2026 eliminates specialized suicide hotline services for LGBTQ youth and young adults.The budget proposal, which the department published Friday, designates $520 million for 988, the suicide prevention line, and behavioral health crisis services, which is the same amount the Biden administration provided for 988. However, the 2026 budget proposal would end government funding for LGBTQ-specific counseling to 988 callers upon request.When asked for comment, a spokesperson for HHS directed NBC News to the White House’s Office of Management and Budget.Rachel Cauley, a spokesperson for OMB, noted that the proposed budget would provide the same amount for 988 services as was provided in previous years.“It does not, however, grant taxpayer money to a chat service where children are encouraged to embrace radical gender ideology by ‘counselors’ without consent or knowledge of their parents,” Cauley said.
Suicide hotline are considers by the White House a "Chat Lines"!!!!!
The far-right Daily Caller said,
The LGBTQ hotline, which routes young callers to organizations that specialize in “affirming” counseling, has received over a million contacts since it was launched in 2022, federal data shows. In those years, it placed access to transgender activists at children’s fingertips, enabling youth who text “PRIDE” to 988 or press option “3” after dialing the main hotline to connect with a counselor who will talk to them about gender identity — often without parental knowledge.“HHS is reviewing the 988 Hotline and working to comply with President Trump’s Executive Order Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to The Federal Government,” a Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) spokesperson told the DCNF. “Additionally, we are working to ensure that HHS better serves the American people at the highest and most efficient standard, as it relates to those experiencing a suicidal crisis or emotional distress.”
Now remember these are children who are thinking about killing themselves! 45% of transgender and nonbinary youth seriously considered self-harm.
Here is a list of research papers on how supportive healthcare saves lives of trans children...
1. Turban, J. L., King, D., Reisner, S. L., & Keuroghlian, A. S. (2020).Pubertal suppression for transgender youth and risk of suicidal ideation. Pediatrics, 145(2), e20191725.https://doi.org/10.1542/peds.2019-17252. Turban, J. L., King, D., Carswell, J. M., & Keuroghlian, A. S. (2022).Access to gender-affirming hormones during adolescence and mental health outcomes among transgender adults. JAMA Network Open, 5(1), e2147056.https://doi.org/10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2021.470563. The Trevor Project. (2023).2023 U.S. national survey on the mental health of LGBTQ young people.https://www.thetrevorproject.org/survey-2023/4. Parsons, J. T., Lelutiu-Weinberger, C., Botsko, M., & Golub, S. A. (2018).The protective role of family and peer support for LGBTQ youth facing suicidality. Journal of Adolescent Health, 62(2), S12–S13.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jadohealth.2017.11.0405. Kosciw, J. G., Clark, C. M., Truong, N. L., & Zongrone, A. D. (2022).The 2021 national school climate survey: The experiences of LGBTQ+ youth in our nation’s schools. GLSEN.https://www.glsen.org/research/2021-national-school-climate-survey6. The Trevor Project. (2022).Annual impact report.https://www.thetrevorproject.org/resources/article/2022-annual-impact-report/
Republicans want not for force us back in the closet but rather annihilate us. I dismissed talk about Trump starting interment camps for us and I laughed it off... but now?
Next? The suicide hot-line for veterans suffering from PTSD? Remember, the Nazis sent gays and other sexual minorities to the gas chambers. Last night I finally went out to my flag pole and hung my flag upside-down. I had it like that for the entire first term of Herr Trump.
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