The Trump administration has given a crisis hotline for LGBTQ+ youth 30 days to shut down and stakeholders as well as lawmakers are speaking out against the move.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
While the White House had signaled earlier this year that it would no longer fund<\/strong> the LGBTQ youth service, \u201cPress 3 option,\u201d of the National Suicide and Crisis Lifeline starting in 2026, it had said funding for the rest of this year would remain unchanged.<\/p>\n\n\n\n But the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) announced Tuesday it would \u201cno longer silo\u201d the program. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe Fiscal Year 2023 Omnibus included a Congressional directive for $29.7 million to fund the specialized service,\u201d the agency said in a statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cFederal funding in FY24 for the Press 3 services increased to $33 million. As of June 2025, more than $33 million in funds have been spent to support the subnetworks, fully expending the monies allocated for 988 Lifeline LGB+ subnetwork services.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n The Health Department\u2019s annual budget \u201cdoes not, however, grant taxpayer money to a chat service where children are encouraged to embrace radical gender ideology by \u2018counselors\u2019 without consent or knowledge of their parents,\u201d said Rachel Cauley, a spokesperson for the White House\u2019s Office of Management and Budget. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The Trevor Project, which responds to roughly half<\/strong> of 988 calls and texts from LGBTQ+ youth, said it had received a stop-work order<\/strong> from the Trump administration. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThis is devastating, to say the least. Suicide prevention is about people, not politics,\u201d said Jaymes Black, the Trevor Project\u2019s CEO. \u201cThe administration\u2019s 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.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n