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ceejayoztoday at 4:58 PM1 replyview on HN

About a year ago:

https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-news/trump-shuts-down-lg...

> The Trump administration on Thursday afternoon officially terminated the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline’s LGBTQ Youth Specialized Services program, which gave callers under age 25 the option to speak with LGBTQ-trained counselors.

As with the USAID cuts, this killed people.


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Alupistoday at 5:05 PM

I'm sorry, but I beg to differ here. LGBTQ are people too. There's nothing unique that requires "training" to handle their cases any more than Black or Asian or Indian cases. There doesn't need to be a specialist for every group, or worse - some groups.

A national hotline that can handle anyone is clearly the right way.

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