We live in hell, and the flames grow hotter each day. The Trump administration may be low on morals and empathy, but nobody can deny their talent for concocting new forms of cruelty designed to inflict the most misery possible. For today’s soul-crushing example, here’s the Trump regime shutting down the National LGBTQ+ youth suicide lifeline, which will now cease operation on Jul. 17.
The reasoning behind this isn’t complicated: Trump’s goons want gay, queer and trans kids to die, ideally before they reach voting age. There’s certainly no budgetary reason behind its closure, the hotline costs just $33 million per year to operate, peanuts compared to the vast expenditure of the government.
It’s also not because it’s not effective. Since it was established in 2022, the hotline has provided lifesaving support to over 1.3 million kids and handled 231,000 crisis contacts in 2024 alone. According to The Trevor Project, LGBTQ+ kids are over four times more likely to attempt suicide than their peers, with 48% of transgender and nonbinary youth reporting suicidal ideation in the past year alone, meaning counsellors with expertise in this specific field are vital to save lives.
Can a Trump supporter explain why this is necessary without sounding like an utter sociopath https://t.co/mM7cpYsnyb
— evan loves worf (@esjesjesj) June 19, 2025
More dead kids
If you’re dyed-in-the-wool MAGA, you may scoff at your hard-earned tax dollars being spent on talking LGBTQ+ kids down off the ledge. You’re a heartless POS if you do think that, by the way, but we know you’re out there.
But consider that under the Trump administration, coming out of the closet is now objectively more dangerous. That means some kids you know – perhaps even your kids – may be gay or trans but keeping it bottled up inside for fear of what would happen if they talked about it.
Those are precisely the kinds of kids who are at risk from suicidal ideation, so you might come home one day to find a suspiciously quiet house, a bedroom door slightly ajar, and the worst thing you will ever see in your life dangling from a rope inside. Maybe if there’d been someone with specific expertise in LGBTQ+ teens they could have called things could have been different. But, sadly, from now on, that lifeline has been yanked away.
Even MAGA devotees can’t defend this closure, choosing instead to vomit out weird lies about those on the hotline trying to convince kids to transition or the counsellors being sexual predators. Or, alternatively, that the existence of an LGBTQ+ focused hotline is just a way to spread liberal propaganda. But if you stack that baseless concern against an ever-growing pile of dead kids, I know which one I’d pick.
