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LGBT suicide hotline counselor appears to endorse teen's plan to leave home, live with coach

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Trump admin. announced funding cuts for Trevor Project-linked hotline last month

A leaked recording of a counseling session with a controversial LGBT activist group appeared to endorse a fictional teen’s plan to leave home and move in with her coach, who promised to facilitate access to cross-sex hormones and a double mastectomy.

The recording, shared by “mom activist” Beth Bourne, captures a conversation where Bourne, posing as a 15-year-old girl identifying as a transgender boy, described feeling unsafe at home due to her mother’s alleged misgendering. After telling an unidentified Trevor Project crisis counselor that she felt unsafe at home after she was “misgendered,” Bourne asked if moving into her softball coach's house was a good idea since he “promised to help me get online [testosterone] and my breasts removed.”

The counselor responded, “Yeah, yeah, that makes sense,” adding, "It sounds like her feelings about this have gotten worse over time. And it sounds like you have two options, maybe, to leave the situation and find a better space for yourself." The counselor then asks, "What would it be like to go live with your coach?"

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A federal funding cut for the Trevor Project doesn't surprise me. It's consistent with many of the other cuts the government has been making this year. (I didn't know that the Trevor Project received federal funding; I thought they were entirely private.)

As to the actual conversation: We don't hear the beginning of the conversation in the X post, but if a teen calls a suicide hotline to say that their home life is making them feel so bad that they're thinking about killing themselves, the counsellor should do everything they can to help the teen envision hope and give the teen an alternative. If moving out for a while keeps the teen alive for another week, then that's a week in which serious in-person counselling can happen, or something else can happen to let the teen see hope for their life.

A suicidal person who feels trapped, with no way out other than death, may complete the suicide. I hear the counsellor as helping the caller to find ways out of the perceived trap.

I'm really uneasy, by the way, about someone making fake calls to a suicide hotline. Ha ha, you tricked someone into thinking you were in crisis, so funny. It's like making a prank call to 911. Those hotlines are for people in real trouble.
 
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Trump admin. announced funding cuts for Trevor Project-linked hotline last month

A leaked recording of a counseling session with a controversial LGBT activist group appeared to endorse a fictional teen’s plan to leave home and move in with her coach, who promised to facilitate access to cross-sex hormones and a double mastectomy.

The recording, shared by “mom activist” Beth Bourne, captures a conversation where Bourne, posing as a 15-year-old girl identifying as a transgender boy, described feeling unsafe at home due to her mother’s alleged misgendering. After telling an unidentified Trevor Project crisis counselor that she felt unsafe at home after she was “misgendered,” Bourne asked if moving into her softball coach's house was a good idea since he “promised to help me get online [testosterone] and my breasts removed.”

The counselor responded, “Yeah, yeah, that makes sense,” adding, "It sounds like her feelings about this have gotten worse over time. And it sounds like you have two options, maybe, to leave the situation and find a better space for yourself." The counselor then asks, "What would it be like to go live with your coach?"

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I’m not sure what the whole story is. I just hope everyone is safe.
 
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