LGBTQ Youth Suicide Counselors Removed From Hotline

[Hol]

The Trump administration has officially eliminated a specialized hotline for suicide services directed at LGBTQ youth and young adults, the Trevor Project News reported on Wednesday.

Last week the Department of Health and Human Services had proposed a budget for 2026 that eliminated government funding for LGBTQ-specific counseling. A spokesperson for the Office of Management and Budget said the government would be providing the same funding for the 988 suicide prevention line as it has in the Biden administration. "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," the OMB spokesperson added.

Trevor Project CEO Jaymes Black issued a statement decrying the administration's latest move. "Suicide prevention is about people, not politics. The administration's decision to remove a bipartisan, evidence-based service that has effectively supported a high-risk group of young people through their darkest moments is incomprehensible."

https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/suicide-prevention-lgbtq-trevor-project/2025/06/18/id/1215563/

 

[Tall Timbers]

Well done, Mr President.

 

[mattfivefour]

Nevertheless, vulnerable young people struggling with homosexual desires need a place they can access for empathetic and compassionate help, not dismissal or being made to feel a defective person. Is there such a service? One that is not staffed by perverts trying to draw in more young men and women?

 

[Work4Peanuts]

Nevertheless, vulnerable young people struggling with homosexual desires need a place they can access for empathetic and compassionate help, not dismissal or being made to feel a defective person. Is there such a service? One that is not staffed by perverts trying to draw in more young men and women?

On another website article I read, they will be covered under the current suicide hotline, which has not been dismantled.

You are right about the hotline being staffed by perverts. The previous setup was bad. From what I've read, on this suicide prevention hotline specifically for lgbtqxyz, they encouraged transing the kids when they called in (unhappy as homosexual? It's because you were born in the wrong body! )

This is definitely a good thing that it was dismantled. Unfortunately, Christian-based services are considered "homophobic" by anyone who wants to be encouraged to continue in their perversion and anyone else considers the perverts to be the good guys. I don't see this government going either way.

 

[Cheeky200386]

Nevertheless, vulnerable young people struggling with homosexual desires need a place they can access for empathetic and compassionate help, not dismissal or being made to feel a defective person. Is there such a service? One that is not staffed by perverts trying to draw in more young men and women?

Bills have been passed in several blue states that criminalize counselors who do not affirm LGBT ideas in struggling minors. They have been silenced under penalty of losing their license and or paying fines.