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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Devi Shastri

988's LGBTQ+ hotline to relaunch this year. But the group that helped start it might be excluded

Suicide Hotline-LGBTQ - (Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All rights reserved)

The Trump administration is moving to restart the specialized LGBTQ+ option for youth who contact the 988 crisis intervention hotline, but the group that helped pioneer the idea is being shut out.

The Trevor Project, the leading nonprofit for suicide prevention in LGBTQ+ young people, may not be allowed to offer the service it had helped develop for the 988 Lifeline just a few years ago.

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