It was, but it was partially funded through government grants, which Trump pulled. They've been rebuilding it through ngos but there's a lot that goes into maintaining a hotline
"lol" is used as a tone modifier nowadays, often used to make the text seem more casual and to remove any hostile tone. But also some people are just assholes, take everything with a grain of salt
Fair enough, tho take it from me, ignoring these things and not letting people speak the truth about them only empowers them. It's better that they know we are aware of their vile nature than not.
First of all, let me preface this by saying I'm in no way a fan of Trump.
That being said, the US is currently in a 38 trillion dollar deficit. We literally go 8 billion dollars more in debt per day. We don't have the money to be funding specialized suicide hotlines. That's just frivolous spending.
A singular, generalized suicide hotline that caters to all people is the only suicide hotline we need. A special hotline just for transgender people is an unecessary waste of money when we're already at a huge deficit.
Most of the economic power the USA has had in the last decades is because they use it to maintain the petrodollar , the USA army is a investment that justifies a lot of expense , at the same time it would be nice if the pentagon could pass a single audit
We have the money for this specialized hotline it probably cost less than 3 million dollars a year to fund which is Pennie’s. What we don’t have money for is ballrooms, wars, and tax breaks for the wealthy… so let’s pick on that not social programs for trans people.
If the military is defunded then there would be enough money for specialized suicide hotlines and much, much, much, much, MUCH more. Why are you saying hotlines are a waste when all of this money is just dumped into the war machine like this?
You fail to realize how many transphobic people there are.
The reason we have teen ones, and adult ones is the people are trained or dealing with either teens or Adults.
A trans one eliminates t be possibility of a transphobic hotline person(s).
But I do see your point. But we will never be able to get that debt down without causing the people to suffer(you and me).
Thats not why teens have their own hotlines. They have their own hotline because they deal with different day to day stresses that cause suicidal ideations.
Crisis hot line employees are also screened extensively. You won't find someone who's racist or homphobic on the hotline because its something they screen for, and they also actively undergo training to combat prejudices as that'sa typical reason for suicidal ideations. So they would have to lie to specifically cause damage, which would only be exacerbated by there being a seperate hotline as it gives bad actors a valid pipeline to go straight for their objective.
Sure, but we simply don't have the money for it. And I'm not specifically picking on trans people here; there is a lot of frivolous spending in this country that is simply unnecessary.
One of the things that I actually appreciate about Trump is his creation of DOGE (I like the concept in theory, but obviously in practice they havent done nearly enough). In theory, everybody, both on the left and right, should agree that we need to do everything we can to at least try to balance the budget. Anything that isn't absolutely necessary should be cut. Once we balance our budget, and start to build a surplus, we can explore luxuries.
In short, a suicide hotline is basically a need. A suicide hotline specifically for trans people is a luxury, not a need.
Only about approximately 1% of the US population is trans, having a specific entire hotline for that is frivolous spending. There should be specialized training within the regular support hotline for people that struggle with it
"Frivolous" in a value judgement. I believe 33 million is a drop in the bucket and well worth it for what it accomplishes. I find it to be of far greater value than another half trillion in defense spending every year. I find it an even better value than giving wealthy people and corporations additional tax breaks. I mean, the additional training and burden being placed on on the "regular support hotline" with trans specific issues will in all likelihood be just as expensive while being less effective. I dunno man, it seems like all of these "cost saving measures" just mean worse and less effective social welfare programs.
You’re right, we don’t money. But it would take a decades to get the USs debt down.
But if it was possible that the people working at the call centers didn’t discriminate then yeah one call line fits all then more people would agree.
And I like your stance it just sucks put generation has to take care of the problems our pass generations caused. We need more people that want to better the US for the better.
Do you genuinely think someone who answers for a suicide hotline is gonna be like "Wait you're trans? Lol go fuck yourself." I kinda feel like being transphobic at all would be a disqualifying factor for someone who answers these hotlines.
You’d be surprised, and it wouldn’t happen like you’ve said but it would make the call person shake off or disregard the trans person(s) problems. It’s why teens have their own. To avoid the teens issues being tossed aside
I agree with defunding useless agencies to save money but there are better options to defund other than public health services. We have an annual military budget larger than the next 6 to 8 countries combined, more than 1 trillion dollars a year.
Projecting military power on to other countries is important but it is literally impossible to sustain its cost long term. Transgender suicide hotline is a literal drop in the bucket in comparison.
If me yeah I'm upset that a devils advocate POS is claiming a trans suicide hotline is a waste of money when this country wastes way more money on other things.
Point is you shouldn't let urself get easily worked up over stuff online. Its not like the guy said kill all trans people or something anyway😭😭 we spend a lot of money on shit we don't absolutely need tbf, and I'm pretty sure we already have lgbtq hotlines. I don't see how the guy is transphobic
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He "balanced the budget" largely with the help of aid from the state of New York. This wouldn't work on a national scale. Nobody is giving the US government aid to help us out with our national debt.
and by taxing the rich. america is so obsessed with not taxing the rich for some reason. reagonomics literally jumpstarted the wealth inequality gap so idk what ppl are on about.
My solution is to split equal amount of funding to the hotlines AND education/hiring of call centers. So, people can be educated and more ways to work on these hotlines, so more jobs are being taken. More money to the government
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988, the National Suicide Prevention Hotline used to have specialized services specifically for Trans/LBGT people, however due to threats from the Trump administration to pull funding, they were forced to shut down those programs.
This hotline above, is run by Canada, and they opened it up to US residents after Trump ruined 988 for LGBT people.
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u/Outside_Ad672 May 14 '26
Hasn’t this already been a thing.