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US to end LGBT suicide prevention service, says general hotline sufficient
Reuters ^ | 06/18/2025 | Kanishka Singh

Posted on 06/19/2025 3:48:25 AM PDT by Recovering_Democrat

...Donald Trump's administration is ending funding for an LGBT suicide prevention hotline that it says encourages "radical gender ideology...the White House Office of Management and Budget said funding would continue for 988 Lifeline, a wider suicide prevention hotline.

(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: doge; homosexuality; media; pay4ityourselves; taxes
The local Miami Florida media is seething.
1 posted on 06/19/2025 3:48:25 AM PDT by Recovering_Democrat
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To: Recovering_Democrat

I think a suicide encouragement service might be better. Psychotic persons get no better and just become more dangerous and expensive as time passes.


2 posted on 06/19/2025 3:51:42 AM PDT by anton
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To: Recovering_Democrat

Why treat “special” people “specially”?

Well, the gender-confused crowd IS upwards of FOUR TIMES as likely to commit suicide as normals (which holds true before AND after “treatment”).

But there’s already a suicide hotline which is gender, race, religion, etc., NEUTRAL. For this special group of self-annointed special people, this isn’t good enough. They want more.

If one expects government (that is, ORDINARY tax-paying wage-earning people to PAY for a suicide hotline for ONE special needs group, it would have to pay for a hotline for each and every special needs group. That’s a LOT of phone lines. It’s not like there’s a hotline for each and every kind of poison for poison control.

So, sorry/not sorry GID/LGBTQP folks, one race, one crisis, one phone number.

As your usual, traditional, “special” glib response goes, Get over it.


3 posted on 06/19/2025 4:06:03 AM PDT by normbal (normbal. Non-native Tennessean.)
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To: normbal

“You have reached the suicide hotline.

Press 1 for English

Press 2 for Spanish

Press 3 for L

Press 4 for G

Press 5 for B

Press 6 for T

Press 7 for Q...”


4 posted on 06/19/2025 4:44:47 AM PDT by Cowgirl of Justice
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To: Recovering_Democrat

Make it into a how to help line.


5 posted on 06/19/2025 5:01:19 AM PDT by Wilderness Conservative (Nature is the ultimate conservative)
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To: Cowgirl of Justice

LGBTQP… if you press the number for “P” a predator drone drops a hellfire on you.


6 posted on 06/19/2025 5:01:41 AM PDT by normbal (normbal. Non-native Tennessean.)
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To: normbal

Something frequently lost in these discussions is just how mentally twisted a man must be to put on women’s clothes and make up or God forbid take castration hormones or have his own penis cut off and then take another man’s penis in his mouth or anus for sexual gratification.

It is lost somehow in the “gay is OK as long as they keep what they do to themselves” denial mechanism.

But gay men are so mentally twisted they should be shunned and excluded from society. If the fetish was just having someone urinate on him and he bragged about it, no one would invite him over, much less allow children around him. And, the whole gay sex thing in 100 times more perverted.

I’m homophobic. And, I don’t hang around with killers or child predators either.


7 posted on 06/19/2025 5:30:28 AM PDT by anton
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The answering machine for the LGBQT+ suicide hotline will be looping the song “Jump” by Van Halen over and over.


8 posted on 06/19/2025 6:12:53 AM PDT by BipolarBob (I don't have any bad habits. I'm good at them all.)
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To: Recovering_Democrat

That’s fine. People commit suicide for all sorts of reasons. I’m not sure LGBT needs to be a special class of people with their own hotline.


9 posted on 06/19/2025 6:17:25 AM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (FBI out of Florida!)
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To: Cowgirl of Justice

:)


10 posted on 06/19/2025 6:51:59 AM PDT by delchiante
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Those answering the phone lines are not volunteers. They should be fully trained. Example: during a suicide hotline call, the true issue appears to be tied to LGBT, the counselor can’t just disconnect and send the call to someone else. One call does it all.


11 posted on 06/19/2025 7:12:31 AM PDT by healy61
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To: anton

“phobic” means afraid. I don’t think that is the case. How about substituting Fastidium? That means disgusted.

E.g., homofastidium. or, homofastidious.


12 posted on 06/19/2025 7:25:19 AM PDT by bobbo666
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To: Recovering_Democrat

Wait! The “hotline” needs that funding for their grooming efforts. Mean ol’ Trump!


13 posted on 06/19/2025 7:53:24 AM PDT by Bigg Red ( Lord, make me an instrument of your peace.)
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To: Cowgirl of Justice

Good one!


14 posted on 06/19/2025 8:01:42 AM PDT by libertylover (The HBM (Has Been Media) is almost all AGENDA-DRIVEN, not-truth driven.)
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To: bobbo666

I looked it up to confirm your thought.

The Progressive left has permanently altered the English language to suit it’s destruction of a multitude of societal norms. The greatest enemy of the American Republic is with no challenge the progressive left.

GROK provided the following:

“Colloquial/Social Context:
Meaning: Often used to describe a strong dislike, prejudice, or aversion to something, not necessarily rising to the level of a clinical phobia. In this sense, it can imply bias or discriminatory attitudes, particularly when applied to social issues.

Examples:
Homophobic: Exhibiting prejudice or aversion toward homosexual individuals or homosexuality.”


15 posted on 06/19/2025 8:10:27 AM PDT by bert ( (KE. NP. +12) Where is ZORRO when California so desperately needs him?)
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To: anton

I’m not “homophobic” nor do I think you are either.

We both seem to have a NORMAL revulsion to unnatural perversions foisted upon us as acceptable to the point the group performing said acts can do it in public, in parades on public streets in front of CHILDREN and voicing an opinion that this is Grooming/Recruiting is called - “homophobic.”

Name calling is about all the homoleftists have.

In the old days they’d smack you with their purses…


16 posted on 06/19/2025 9:16:27 AM PDT by normbal (normbal. Non-native Tennessean.)
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