{"id":29892,"date":"2025-06-18T17:06:39","date_gmt":"2025-06-18T17:06:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=29892"},"modified":"2025-06-18T17:26:40","modified_gmt":"2025-06-18T17:26:40","slug":"trump-administration-will-end-l-g-b-t-q-suicide-prevention-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=29892","title":{"rendered":"Trump Administration Will End L.G.B.T.Q. Suicide Prevention Service"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The federal government says it will maintain funding for a national suicide prevention hotline, but no longer pay for specialized support for L.G.B.T.Q. people.<\/p>\n

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The Trump administration has instructed the national suicide prevention hotline to stop offering specialized support to L.G.B.T.Q. callers next month, saying those callers can rely on the hotline\u2019s general services.<\/p>\n

The Trevor Project, a nonprofit that has provided that specialized support to L.G.B.T.Q. callers to the 988 suicide prevention hotline, said Wednesday that it had received a stop-work order for that service, effective July 17, and provided a copy of the order to The New York Times.<\/p>\n

The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, the agency within the Department of Health and Human Services that oversees the hotline, confirmed the decision.<\/p>\n

The option for L.G.B.T.Q. support was established in 2022 based on a recognition that gay and transgender people experience distinct mental health issues \u2014 often driven by family rejection and societal discrimination \u2014 and have disproportionately high suicide rates.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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In a statement<\/a> that referred to \u201cL.G.B.+ youth services\u201d \u2014 omitting the \u201cT\u201d for transgender \u2014 SAMHSA said the decision was based on a desire to \u201cno longer silo\u201d those services and to \u201cfocus on serving all<\/em> help seekers.\u201d A spokesman for the White House responded to an inquiry by referring to that statement, and a spokeswoman for H.H.S. said that the L.G.B.T.Q. section had \u201crun out of congressionally directed funding\u201d and that continuing to fund it would jeopardize the entire hotline.<\/p>\n

However, the White House Office of Management and Budget has previously described<\/a> the hotline\u2019s L.G.B.T.Q. section as \u201ca chat service where children are encouraged to embrace radical gender ideology by \u2018counselors\u2019 without consent or knowledge of their parents.\u201d That language reflects the Trump administration\u2019s broader efforts to eliminate services for and legal recognition of<\/a> transgender people.<\/p>\n

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The federal government says it will maintain funding for a national suicide prevention hotline, but no longer pay for specialized support for L.G.B.T.Q. people.The Trump administration has instructed the national suicide prevention hotline to stop offering specialized support to L.G.B.T.Q. callers next month, saying those callers can rely on the hotline\u2019s general services.The Trevor Project, a nonprofit that has provided that specialized support to L.G.B.T.Q. callers to the 988 suicide prevention hotline, said Wednesday that it had received a stop-work order for that service, effective July 17, and provided a copy of the order to The New York Times.The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, the agency within the Department of Health and Human Services that oversees the hotline, confirmed the decision.The option for L.G.B.T.Q. support was established in 2022 based on a recognition that gay and transgender people experience distinct mental health issues \u2014 often driven by family rejection and societal discrimination \u2014 and have disproportionately high suicide rates.In a statement that referred to \u201cL.G.B.+ youth services\u201d \u2014 omitting the \u201cT\u201d for transgender \u2014 SAMHSA said the decision was based on a desire to \u201cno longer silo\u201d those services and to \u201cfocus on serving all help seekers.\u201d A spokesman for the White House responded to an inquiry by referring to that statement, and a spokeswoman for H.H.S. said that the L.G.B.T.Q. section had \u201crun out of congressionally directed funding\u201d and that continuing to fund it would jeopardize the entire hotline.However, the White House Office of Management and Budget has previously described the hotline\u2019s L.G.B.T.Q. section as \u201ca chat service where children are encouraged to embrace radical gender ideology by \u2018counselors\u2019 without consent or knowledge of their parents.\u201d That language reflects the Trump administration\u2019s broader efforts to eliminate services for and legal recognition of transgender people.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29894,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifestyle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29892","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29892"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29892\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29895,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29892\/revisions\/29895"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/29894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}