The Trump administration has officially eliminated a specialized hotline for suicide services directed at  LGBTQ youth and young adults, the Trevor Project News reported on Wednesday.

Last week the Department of Health and Human Services had proposed a budget for 2026 that eliminated government funding for LGBTQ-specific counseling. A spokesperson for the Office of Management and Budget said the government would be providing the same funding for the 988 suicide prevention line as it has in the Biden administration. “It does not, however, grant taxpayer money to a chat service where children are encouraged to embrace radical gender ideology by ‘counselors’ without consent or knowledge of their parents,” the OMB spokesperson added. 

Trevor Project CEO Jaymes Black issued a statement decrying the administration’s latest move. “Suicide prevention is about people, not politics. The administration’s decision to remove a bipartisan, evidence-based service that has effectively supported a high-risk group of young people through their darkest moments is incomprehensible.”

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