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“While we strongly disagree with the many actions taken by the Trump Administration targeting LGBTQ+ individuals, we believe that suicide prevention should be a nonpartisan issue," the Democratic senators wrote.
It will be the second year that the suicide prevention organization will provide services to young people in distress.
The contracted employees who are out of a job say they’re upset about the timing and the way the layoffs were announced.
White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre announced the option during Thursday’s White House press briefing.
Transgender folks in particular expressed fears for their future under a Donald Trump presidency.
A new report from the agency recommends specialized services for LGBTQ youth and a three-digit hotline for all.
The Trump administration is cutting the 988 special service for LGBTQ+ youth, but there are still several existing lifelines for LGBTQ+ youth in crisis. Here are some.
Lee Yang uses his massive influence to corral volunteers for the LGBTQ youth crisis hotline.
San Francisco-based Trans Lifeline has collected an all-trans staff of volunteers who aim to make the crisis hotline experience more comfortable and accessible for trans callers.
The study’s authors called for more research on the problem of LGBTQ+ intimate partner abuse.
The internet rumor is false, but there are still resources available for people in crisis.
In case of a mental health crisis, people can call 988 as of July 16 to access help.
“It’s heartbreaking, scary, and deeply harmful,” Kansas Rep. Sharice Davids, who said the Department of Health and Human Services should keep the successful suicide prevention program intact, told The Advocate.
The number would provide ease of access for all, including particularly at-risk populations such as LGBTQ youth.
The Rainbow Youth Project says it typically handles around 3,765 calls per month, but that number more than doubled in November and December after Trump’s election victory, exceeding 8,000 calls monthly.
"This administration has made a dangerous decision to play politics with real young people’s lives," Trevor Project CEO Jaymes Black said.
The memo to erase trans people may have a body count.
Their legislation would revive the crisis line the Trump administration shut down.
The drag performers received training from the Trevor Project in talking to LGBTQ young people in crisis.
