Virginia Removes LGBTQ Youth Suicide Prevention Resources After Complaints By Ben Shapiro’s Daily Wire

The Washington Post reports:

The administration of Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R) quietly took down LGBTQ+ youth resources from a state website after a conservative media outlet questioned the links, records show, building on a pattern of removals derided by public health employees who say their work is being politicized.

Within hours of an inquiry from the Daily Wire, a dozen resources, including a live-chat online support group for teens, were removed from the state health department website at the direction of a Cabinet-level agency, according to emails obtained under the state’s open records law.

The presence of the materials — and their subsequent disappearance on May 31 — generated two headlines and a flurry of online reaction from conservative readers of the outlet, co-founded by right-wing commentator Ben Shapiro.

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Youngkin officials quietly pulled LGBTQ+ youth resources off a VA Dept. of Health website.

LGBTQ+ youth do better socially, emotionally and academically when they have access to resources and feel connected to a supportive community.https://t.co/x24eGKY6dg

— Equality Virginia (@EqualityVA) July 6, 2023

.@GlennYoungkin is hoping you won’t notice that he caved to the Daily Wire and secretly eliminated suicide prevention resources for LGBTQ youth.

You should DEFINITELY not retweet this so others know as well. https://t.co/mJ010XTcru

— Gavin Newsom (@GavinNewsom) July 6, 2023

The Youngkin administration has three times stripped the state health department website of information: on abortion, sexual health and now LGBTQ+ youth resources.https://t.co/swRgQWbyDo

— Jenna Portnoy (@jennaportnoy) July 6, 2023

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