700 percent increase in the number of young people reaching out to The Trevor Project's crisis services—marking the single largest daily contact volume on record since we started offering 24/7 services in 2019.
While this work is always heavy, witnessing the avalanche of contact after contact share their unique yet overlapping feelings of hopelessness and helplessness broke my heart.Young people contacted our counselors with a variety of election-related concerns and anxieties, but one of the most common topics of conversation was health care.
Many young people are worried the routine medicine they need will be taken away—simply because they happen to be transgender.
Next week, the Supreme Court will begin hearing arguments for a case that could affirm these young people's fears, or give them a reason to exhale in relief.On Dec.