Trump Administration Completes LGBTQ Youth Option Option in US Suicide

Part of the hot line of suicide prevention in the United States, which takes care of young people of LGBTQ, says it will soon close after the Trump administration has reduced its funding.

The administration has accused the service of “radical sexual ideology”.

It says that it will still fund the broader rescue rescue period of suicide and crises – from which the LGBTQ youth option is one part – and that all calls will receive “compassion and help”.

The Trevor project, an organization that helped manage the LGBTQ option, said the solution would have a detrimental impact on vulnerable young people.

“Suicide prevention is related to people, not to politics,” says James Black, CEO of the organization. He said his service was said to close within 30 days.

“The administration’s decision to remove a bilateral evidence-based service that effectively supports the high-risk group of young people during its darkest moments is incomprehensible,” added Mr. Black.

The decision comes during the International Month of Pride, which celebrates LGBTQ culture and history.

The news also arrived before the US Supreme Court ruling on Tuesday that it confirmed the ban on the Tennessee of Health, related to the transition, for minors, which are identified as transgender.

General 988 Lifeline offers free mental health support through call, text or chat. It is funded by the administration for substance and mental health abuse (SAMHSA), a subsidiary of the US Agency for Health and Human Services (HHS).

Currently LGBTQ Young people can choose option 3 from the call menu to contact advisers.

Following the changes, the remaining 988 Lifeline Services will “focus on serving all seekers”, including those who have previously chosen to have access to LGBTQ youth services, Samhsa said.

But the hotline “no longer would be a silosal LGB+ youth services,” writes in a statement Samhsa, missing “T” and “Q”, which refers to transsexual and strange people in the abbreviation of LGBTQ.

HHS officials offered to reduce LGBTQ LGBTQ Youth Services to 988 Lifeline last week.

In a statement to NBC News at the time, a HHS spokesman described the option as a “chat service in which children were encouraged to accept a radical gender ideology from” advisers “without consent or knowledge of their parents.”

The legislation adopted in 2020 by the US Congress required Lifeline 988 to provide services and employees specifically for LGBTQ people, as well as for other risk groups such as rural and root Americans.

The legislation noted that LGBTQ youths are “more than 4 times more frequent to consider suicide than their peers, with 1 in 5 LGBTQ young people and more than 1 in 3 transsexual youth trying to commit suicide.”

The law received bilateral support – including Donald Trump, who then launched his first presidential term and signed the bill.

According to the Lifeline 988 website, LGBTQ communities are “disproportionately at risk of suicide and other mental health struggles due to historical and continued structural violence.”

The Trevor project began to provide its services through 988 Lifeline in 2022. In 2024, it served more than 231,000 crisis contacts, the organization said. It says he will continue to provide his own independent services.

The decision to eliminate the 988 Lifeline Option LGBTQ is against Trump’s impetus to limit the services, support and access of transgender people from the federal government.

He insists that he ends the policies for diversity, justice and inclusion (DEI) in the federal government, arguing that such programs are in themselves discriminatory.

The president has also ordered the removal of transgender military personnel from the US military and issued an executive order that the United States will recognize only two sexes – men and women.

The US Department of State has also announced that it will no longer allow candidates to choose “X” as their gender for US passports. Instead, transgender individuals should choose “male” or “female” corresponding to their gender, determined at birth.

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