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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.
Despite bipartisan pushback, the Department of Health and Human Services is scheduled to discontinue the specialized service next week.
There is increasing pressure both from outside and inside the streaming service to remove the special.
A new report from the agency recommends specialized services for LGBTQ youth and a three-digit hotline for all.
A leaked budget draft shows the federal government's plans to eliminate all funding for the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline’s LGBTQ+ Youth Specialized Services.
The closure is several months ahead of its initial October 1 deadline, first revealed by leaked budget draft in April.
Over 100 celebrities are calling on Congress to secure funding for a hotline that supports LGBTQ+ youth considering suicide.
“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.
Their legislation would revive the crisis line the Trump administration shut down.
The Transgender Treatment Team at Tucson's Southern Arizona Department of Veterans Affairs Health Care System is now open and ready to serve transgender veterans.
The three-digit number will provide easier access than the existing, longer one.
Karine Jean-Pierre and others have called out Trump’s proposed cuts to LGBTQ+ suicide prevention services, which health experts and advocates alike say could devastate the 988 lifeline for queer youth.
One lawmaker called the administration's explanation for cutting the service “insufficient and dangerous.”
It will be the second year that the suicide prevention organization will provide services to young people in distress.
"This administration has made a dangerous decision to play politics with real young people’s lives," Trevor Project CEO Jaymes Black said.
Lawmakers say the move to eliminate 988’s LGBTQ+ youth line is “shortsighted and dangerous” and “will have lethal consequences.”
"It's a trap," one legal expert told The Advocate.
The bill is the first one with LGBTQ+ provisions to be unanimously approved by both houses of Congress.
The Trevor Project called it a “fatal proposal.”
