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Trump cruelly cuts off suicide prevention hotline for queer youth

Editorial Board Published June 18, 2025
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The Trump administration is reducing off federal funding for the 988 Lifeline, the nationwide suicide disaster hotline, for LGBTQ+ youth—a direct assault on the wellbeing of probably the most weak communities in the USA.

The Trevor Mission acquired discover on Tuesday that its contract to function the hotline will expire on July 17. Presently, callers who attain the principle 988 line and choose “LGBTQ+” from the menu choices are directed towards specialists in LGBTQ+ psychological well being.

Trump beforehand proposed reducing off funding for the hotline in his fiscal yr 2026 funds plan—a timeline that has now been accelerated to subsequent month.

Demonization of LGBTQ+ youth has led to a rise in suicide charges. Younger LGBTQ+ persons are greater than 4 instances as more likely to try suicide than their friends.


A protester holds an indication that reads, “They tell you to be yourself until they don’t like it,” in Frankfort, Kentucky.

The principle 988 hotline started working in 2022 and has since acquired 10.8 million calls, texts, and on-line chat messages from the general public.

Significantly amongst transgender youngsters, the suicide price has elevated lately as GOP-led legislatures have handed legal guidelines limiting transgender rights.

Republicans have made opposition to transgender rights central to the social gathering’s attraction to base conservative voters. Leaders of the social gathering—together with Trump, Home Speaker Mike Johnson, and Rep. Nancy Mace of South Carolina—have ceaselessly unfold bigotry, misinformation, and smears towards transgender individuals.

For the reason that begin of his second time period, Trump has pushed to roll again transgender rights by banning transgender army service and signing govt orders and federal guidelines to ban transgender kids from taking part in class sports activities.

Younger LGBTQ+ persons are below assault by their state and federal governments. And now, if they’re pushed into darkness, Trump has reduce off an important and lifesaving useful resource that the group more and more is determined by.

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