President Trump’s government has instructed a crisis service that LGBTQ youth will be closed within 30 days to conclude that the opponent said that they will have bad consequences.
The administration of drug abuse and mental health services (Samhsa) said In a press release On Tuesday that 988, the National Suicide and Crisis Lifeline, LGBTQ youth services will no longer be called Silo more than “Press 3 option”, from July 17, to focus on the services of all those seeking lend a hand, including those who have previously served via Press 3 option.
The announcement of the agency, which was raised during the Pride Month, said the program, which was launched in 2022 under the former president Biden An implementation regulation in January The proclimation of the United States only recognizes two genders, male and female, and that these genders are “not changeable”.
Other government agencies, including the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Centers for the Control and Prevention of Diseases, have related Trump to transgender people and trans-specific resources from their websites since taking office.
The fate of the LGBTQ Youth Suicide Hotline has been in the flow since April when The Washington Post reported That a leaked budget proposal for health and human services for 2026 would eliminate the financing of the program. The White House confirmed these plans at the beginning of this month, but said that the financing for 988 would remain unchanged at 520 million US dollars for the year.
The annual budget of the Ministry of Health “, however, does not grant a Chat service to a taxpayer in which children of” consultants “have radical gender -specific ideology without consent or knowledge of their parents,” said Rachel Cauley, a spokesman for the white house.
The service for LGBTQ youth has received Almost 1.3 million callsAccording to Samhsa Sext and online chat messages since the start in 2022. In February, the program received an average of an average of 2,100 crisis.
In an email, a spokesman for the Trevor project that a non-profit organization reacted to around half of 988 and texts by LGBTQ youth said that the organization for suicide prevention received an official stop work order from the Trump administration for its work, which supports the special services of 988 for LGBTQ youth.
“This is devastating, to say the least. Suicide prevention is about people, not about politics,” said Jaymes Black, CEO of the Trevor project. “The government’s decision to remove a cross -party, evidence -based service that has effectively supported a group of young people in their darkest moments.”
A report Published by the group Last year, 39 percent of LGBTQ-13- to 24-year-olds in the United States made suicide last year, including 46 percent of the transgender and non-binaries. Half of LGBTQ’s newborn people who wanted a mental health care, said they could not access it.
The news that the Trump administration would end the financing for the specialized services of 988 for LGBTQ youth came up intensively for opponents throughout the course.
More than 100 house democrats wrote in a letter to health and human services secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. A separate lettersaid the program would remove the program “A critical resource for young people with increased risk”.
“The removal of services that help keep the youth alive is ruthless, and we ask you to rethink your proposal” In another letter According to Kennedy.
Celebrities in the entire entertainment industry also called for the administration to rethink their decision.
“This is about people, not about politics,” wrote the actors such as Pedro Pascal, Daniel Radcliffe, Ariana Grande and Dua Lipa in an open letter organized by the Trevor project. “In a time of deep split, they let this be a bit that we can all agree on: no young person should be left without help in their darkest moment.”
