{"id":93966,"date":"2025-06-22T20:03:34","date_gmt":"2025-06-23T03:03:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=93966"},"modified":"2025-06-22T20:03:34","modified_gmt":"2025-06-23T03:03:34","slug":"feds-cut-suicide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2025\/06\/22\/feds-cut-suicide\/","title":{"rendered":"Feds Cut Suicide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After two heavy subjects, let\u2019s turn to youth suicide.&nbsp; OK, certainly not a lighter subject.&nbsp; Over these many decades, I\u2019ve written about the work done by <strong><em>The Trevor Project <\/em><\/strong>\u2013 the suicide prevention hotline specifically focusing on LGBTQ+ youths.&nbsp; I was unaware of the <strong><em>988 Suicide &amp; Crisis Lifeline<\/em><\/strong>.&nbsp; You know how you can call 911 in case of an emergency?&nbsp; Well, apparently you can call 988 if you\u2019re having suicidal thoughts or concerns for someone else.&nbsp; And if you press 3, you would be connected to someone specifically catering to LGBTQI+ people under 25&#8230;until July 17<sup>th<\/sup>.&nbsp; The hotline, which is funded by the <em>Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration <\/em>(<em>SAMHSA<\/em>), is a subsidiary of the <em>US Health and Human Services Agency <\/em>(<em>HHS<\/em>).&nbsp; They have determined that there\u2019s no need to specifically \u201csilo LGB+ youth services\u201d \u2013 note that the government took the \u201cT\u201d out (they also took out the \u201cQ\u201d, the \u201cI\u201d, and any other letters that follow).&nbsp; They claim this is to \u201cfocus on serving all help seekers, including those previously served through the Press 3 option\u201d.&nbsp; They also say, \u201cAnyone who calls the Lifeline will continue to receive compassion and help.\u201d&nbsp; That remains to be seen.&nbsp; Critics claim the exclusion of the \u201cT\u201d only underscores the administration\u2019s attempt to erase the trans community.&nbsp; <em>Trevor Project <\/em>CEO <strong>Jaymes Black <\/strong>said, \u201cSuicide prevention is about people, not politics.\u201d&nbsp; They will continue to be available to those in need.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After two heavy subjects, let\u2019s turn to youth suicide.&nbsp; OK, certainly not a lighter subject.&nbsp; Over these many decades, I\u2019ve written about the work done by The Trevor Project \u2013 the suicide prevention hotline specifically focusing on LGBTQ+ youths.&nbsp; I was unaware of the 988 Suicide &amp; Crisis Lifeline.&nbsp; You know how you can call<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93966"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93966\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93967,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93966\/revisions\/93967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}