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The 988 National Suicide & Crisis Lifeline will stop providing tailored support options to LGBTQ+ youth and young adults on July 17, according to a statement on a federal agency's website.

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The Trump administration will shut down the national LGBTQ youth suicide lifeline, the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline, in 30 days.

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-- NBC News (@nbcnews.com) Jun 18, 2025 at 3:40 PM

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Causa mortis: Death by suicide.

Aiders and abettors: Family members who keep guns in the house; Trump and his closet administration.

#1 | Posted by Dbt2 at 2025-06-20 06:06 AM | Reply

Trump Admin Ending 988 Hotline Service

I just hope the monsters leave 867-5309/Jenny alone!

#2 | Posted by censored at 2025-06-20 08:52 AM | Reply

MAGATS do not want lgbtq+ to exist. They'd rather they just kill themselves.

#3 | Posted by johnny_hotsauce at 2025-06-20 09:06 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

The counseling hotline still exists. The Trevor Project groomers have been frozen out. LGB and TQ people can still access qualified counselors.

#4 | Posted by BellRinger at 2025-06-20 11:35 PM | Reply

MAGATS do not want lgbtq+ to exist. They'd rather they just kill themselves.

#3 | Posted by johnny_hotsauce at 2025-06-20 09:06 AM | Reply | Flag:EYE ROLL

It says "tailored support options"... not that lgbtq kids will be denied services.

They will just have to use the same services as everyone else. Most people are so over the LGB thingie... they assimilated...

What is the problem?

I'm curious. Why are we allowing people to blackmail us with threats of suicide because their "gender" isn't "affirmed"?
Why do the "gender confused" get... no... deserve... special treatment?

So they don't kill themselves...?

You want to prevent a child from killing themselves for being told... our species has two sexes for reproductive purposes... with rare exception... the irrevocable fact of life is you are one or the other... just like everyone else... it is what it is... nothing can change that... you muck through life doing the best you can with what you get.

Trumpanzee isn't the only narcissist

#5 | Posted by RightisTrite at 2025-06-21 12:07 AM | Reply

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Your continuous disdain for LGBTQ people is disgusting.

Thank goodness for you Trump and MAGA is here to put us in our place.

#6 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-06-21 12:36 AM | Reply

Why are we allowing people to blackmail us with threats of suicide because their "gender" isn't "affirmed"?

How are you being "blackmailed".

Way to wear your hate on your sleeves.

Why do the "gender confused" get... no... deserve... special treatment?

What "special treatment"? The right to be able to exist without people like you telling them they're "gender confused"?

How sad, you probably consider yourself open minded and liberal.

Where as you're just another reason why conservatives are controlling this country.

#7 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-06-21 12:48 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Your continuous disdain for LGBTQ people is disgusting.

#6 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-06-21 12:36 AM | Reply | Flag: DRAMA QUEEN

NOOOOOOooooo just not buying into the TQ part of it.

Again... the children are not being denied assistance... as for the rest of your scree...

Trust me... there are plenty of LGBs that see the TQetc as a parasitic fetish group taking the fun out of being gay... so get off your high horse... do your research. They won't fly the flag with all that pink, blue blopdablam on it.

I'm just refusing to feel guilty if a child wants to kill itself because it can't change sex. There is no shame in that. No one can give them that. It's impossible. Shame on the person who led them to believe such a thing is possible at this time in human history. It's criminal for the child or parent to be told and act on such a thing.

Besides... kids need to be told no about some things... It's not going to kill them to be told no. If your daughter is a tomboy... you want to save her life? Let her play sports... motocross... rebuild cars or whatever... if your son is a girlyboy ...let him cook... or buy him a sewing machine... maybe all they are is a healthy homosexual

Seriously... some boy child comes up to me and insists they will kill themselves if I don't make them a girl...?
wayyyyyy beyond my pay scale.... yours too

I feel that people like you want me to believe a heterosexual man can become a lesbian by having his reproductive organs amputated and taking estrogen. I refuse to do that. It's delusional.

The most HE can become is a heterosexual man willing to render HIMself a eunuch seeking to satisfy an irresistible personal impulse. I know you want me to believe it is more cosmic than that... but it isn't. I support HIS freedom to do that...as an adult. I don't think HIM a bad person... I think of HIM as an eccentric of sorts.

#8 | Posted by RightisTrite at 2025-06-21 04:41 AM | Reply

When I was younger, we had a name for teenage kids who threatened to kill themselves if they didn't get their way: goths.

But seriously, this has got to be one of the biggest logical fallacies ever when it comes to politics, along with other appeal-to-emotion tactics like "think of the children" that are used by both the left and the right when discussing political issues.

Does anyone have any data on how often the tailored services in the 988 number are utilized and how effective they are compared to the general services provided by that number? In emergency cases, callers are likely to be referred to local resources no matter what.

#9 | Posted by sentinel at 2025-06-21 10:05 AM | Reply

It's funny transactivists will blather cliches like we've always been here... we will always be here... you can't erase us... etc etc etc... They can not provide historical proof that at any time in history has someone transsexed... to become transgender... for certain not until antibiotics have made any of the cosmetic procedures available has the body modding craziness taken hold.

Yes there is evidence of tranvevestisism and ------- mutilation... but nowhere is there evidence demonstrating that people thought males were female or vice versa... they were simply males inclined towards... or homosexual... or neutered for...

Name a time in history were women asked to have their breasts removed to become men... or men inverting their penises to emulate a vagina. I know the Amazon stories... they may have cut off a breast to strap a quiver... but never lost sight of their sex... even if they were lesbians. Most of the transideology is fervent bullchit.

The move to get them started young is because of most transwomen wished they could pass better and blame it on puberty. They're turning kids into a medical experiment.

I get some cultures have routinely mutilated certain children's -------s for a variety of reasons... it's creepy... who knows... perhaps that is the future here...

#10 | Posted by RightisTrite at 2025-06-21 03:15 PM | Reply

^^ To be fair, there are disagreements within the trans* communities about surgeries and hormones and "passing", and I'm sure you'll probably get a response claiming you hate them whether they advocate it or not. Also, being part of a culture that routinely mutilates male parts shortly after birth (circumcision) does partly undermine your mutilation argument, unless you're consistently against that too.

#11 | Posted by sentinel at 2025-06-21 07:03 PM | Reply

4 | Posted by BellRinger

You are one of the most anti-lqbtq voices on this site. All you are doing is reinforcing my point.

#12 | Posted by johnny_hotsauce at 2025-06-22 12:41 AM | Reply

You are one of the most anti-lqbtq voices on this site. All you are doing is reinforcing my point.

Posted by johnny_hotsauce at 2025-06-22 12:41 AM | Reply

Isn't he though?? I swear he believes that he can stick his nose where it doesn't belong. Just like transgender people. Irks me to no end.

#13 | Posted by LauraMohr at 2025-06-22 12:59 AM | Reply

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