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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.<\/p>\n

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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.<\/p>\n

The 988 hotline, which has been dubbed the 911 for mental health emergencies, is credited with reducing teen and young adult suicide deaths. It offers specialized options for certain groups, such as veterans and Spanish speakers, but in July the Trump administration stopped offering the \u201cpress 3\u201d option for LGBTQ+ youth with a month\u2019s notice.<\/p>\n

The administration said it ended the service because the funding ran out. It is now working to bring it back by the end of the year because Congress directed officials to allocate $33 million toward LGBTQ+-specific interventions for youth.<\/p>\n

However, The Trevor Project might not be allowed to offer the services it developed and specializes in. <\/p>\n

Dr. Christine Yu Moutier, chief medical officer for the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, said it \u201cwould not make sense\u201d to keep The Trevor Project ineligible to help and it is a \u201clong-standing, high-quality and trusted resource\u201d to LGBTQ+ people.<\/p>\n

The development is the latest in what\u2019s become a chaotic chapter for the service for LGBTQ+ youth, who attempt suicide at higher rates than the general population. Leaving The Trevor Project out is raising concerns about the relaunched service, especially given the Trump administration\u2019s broader attempt to unravel protections for transgender and non-binary Americans at a time when more of them are reaching out in crisis.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Trump administration never should have shut down the \u2018press 3\u2019 option and put young Americans at further risk,\u201d said Wisconsin Sen. Tammy Baldwin, who has led a bipartisan push to restore the service. She called on the president to restore the service \u201cwithout needless limitations and with the most qualified, experienced people answering the phone calls and text messages from these vulnerable young people.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Trevor Project handled the bulk of 988\u2019s LGBTQ+ youth services<\/h3>\n

The lifeline\u2019s specialized service allowed people to press 3, text \u201cPRIDE\u201d or use online chat to reach counselors who were specially trained to work with LGBTQ+ young people. <\/p>\n

The umbrella of services broadly called the \u201cPress 3\u201d option fielded 1.6 million contacts while it was in operation, according to data from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. The Trevor Project handled about half of the program\u2019s traffic.<\/p>\n

When it canceled the \u201cPress 3\u201d option, federal officials said LGBTQ+ youth could still get help through 988\u2019s general services, but it would \u201cno longer silo\u201d the services \u201cto focus on serving all help seekers,\u201d including LGBTQ+ youth.<\/p>\n

The relaunch of \u2018Press 3\u2019 may not include The Trevor Project<\/h3>\n

Now, the nonprofit that administers the 988 service, Vibrant Emotional Health, has called for applications to manage the return of the \u201cPress 3\u201d lines. <\/p>\n

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But applications are limited to crisis centers that are \u201ccurrent and active\u201d members of the 988 network. The Trevor Project is not currently active \u2014 only because the administration canceled the service it specialized in.<\/p>\n

The six other crisis centers that worked on the LGBTQ+ youth program are active in the 988 network. They work with the general population as well as LGBTQ+ people. Only The Trevor Project had a specific mission to serve LGBTQ+ youth.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis troubling development indicates a dangerous step toward degrading the clinical standards to serve high risk groups that the \u2018press 3\u2019 specialized services were founded on,\u201d said Jaymes Black, CEO of The Trevor Project, in a statement to the AP.<\/p>\n

A spokesperson for the Department of Health and Human Services did not directly respond to questions about The Trevor Project\u2019s eligibility, saying that the department is working with Vibrant to restore the service by the end of the year as directed by Congress. <\/p>\n

Moutier said other crisis centers are providing high-quality care for LGBTQ+ youth. LGBTQ+ young people who are often marginalized and bullied need \u201cpsychological safety\u201d because they don\u2019t always trust institutions to help them. She said it\u2019s too soon to say she\u2019s worried about the relaunch, but how it is brought back is just as important as the fact that it is. <\/p>\n

\u201cI think there\u2019s the potential for great good, and some harm as well,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Concerns shroud relaunch of the \u201cPress 3\u201d option<\/h3>\n

Even though the service itself may be restored, how it will operate is unclear \u2014 and LGBTQ+ advocates are concerned, in part because the Trump administration has indicated that its anti-transgender policies will influence how the program relaunches. <\/p>\n

This month, a SAMHSA leader wrote to Illinois Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi that the agency needed to assess the \u201cmost appropriate approach\u201d to restart the service while complying with a Trump executive order that targets the rights of transgender people, claiming \u201cgender ideology extremism\u201d is a threat to women and declaring there are only two sexes. <\/p>\n

The Trevor Project\u2019s Black worries that the next iteration of 988\u2019s LGBTQ+ youth services \u201cmay exclude transgender and nonbinary youth entirely.\u201d The organization still independently runs its own 24-7 crisis line for LGBTQ+ young people.<\/p>\n

Studies have shown that LGBTQ+ youth are at higher risk of suicide, including a 2024 analysis by the CDC that found 26% transgender and gender-questioning students attempted suicide in the past year. That\u2019s compared with 5% of cisgender male and 11% of cisgender female students.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhile anti-LGBTQ+ politics may be altering the very purpose of this lifeline created to help save young LGBTQ+ lives, it is critical to make clear that politics has no place in suicide prevention,\u201d Black said.<\/p>\n

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The Associated Press Health and Science Department receives support from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute\u2019s Department of Science Education and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. The AP is solely responsible for all content.<\/p>\n

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