More than a year after the Trump administration ended the specialized services LGBTQ youth could access when calling the federal suicide prevention hotline 988, known as the “Press 3” option, it has finally returned.
For more than 14 months, LGBTQ+ young people seeking help through the nation’s suicide prevention lifeline could no longer choose the specialized service created for them. On Wednesday, that option returned without The Trevor Project , the organization that helped launch it. Sen.
Following an effort led in large part by out lesbian Senator Tammy Baldwin of Wisconsin, a national suicide hotline’s specialized LGBTQ youth services have resumed after the Trump administration nixed the program last year in a widely-criticized move.
The lifesaving 988 call-in number to help people experiencing mental health crises or suicidal thoughts has once again restored its specialized services for LGBTQ youth. The lifeline, which used to have the option to “press 3” to be directly sent to specialized services for LGBTQ youth facing mental…
