Heavily funded activist group encourages ‘trans child’ to leave parents
A California mother who posed as a transgender-identifying teen says she was told by The Trevor Project to run away from home and live with her coach.
The Trevor Project, a gender activist group funded by megacorporations and government initiatives, runs a suicide hotline for trans-identifying youth called Trevor Lifeline. On Sunday, Beth Bourne shared a recording of a call she made to the hotline. Bourne pretended to be a 15-year-old girl named “Zenith” who claims to identify as a boy and is being “misgendered” by her parents.
“I just was calling because my mom is not helping me and she doesn’t believe me when I say that I’m trans,” said Bourne, adding that this makes her “feel unsafe” and reluctant to continue living in the house.
“And she took away my [chest] binder and I don’t know where she put it and she doesn’t use my name and she always is calling me by the wrong pronouns and I just don’t want to be here anymore," she added.
Bourne made it clear to the Trevor Lifeline representative, who identified herself as Julie, that she was not suicidal. Nevertheless, Julie immediately began to egg her on.
“Yeah, I hear that. You deserve to be respected and feel safe in your home,” she said. When “Zenith” complained that her mother believes in biological sex and opposes gender ideology, Julie responded: “You don’t deserve to be hearing that from your mom.”
“It sounds like if you’re in an environment that is not supportive of you, that you feel like you can’t be your full self. Then being in a space where you are receiving that would be better for you,” she told Bourne. “I’m wondering, have you started taking steps towards emancipation, or have you talked to your counselor about what that looks like?”
Bourne replied that she was in contact with her counselor at school about running away to a foster home. She then told Julie about her “softball coach.”
Moving in with Coach Steve
“I have a softball coach who’s on my side and he sometimes will get me pizza or he said I can come and just hang out and watch movies with him. And he’s like 100% on my side . . . he said that I’m beautiful and that . . . he believes in me,” said Bourne.
“Yeah, that make sense,” Julie replied. “It sounds like he’s supportive and he will help you get the resources that you need and also just make you feel safer, right? And it sounds like you already have a pretty established connection there.”
“I just think it’s time that I maybe just write a note and say, ‘Mom, I’m going to go live with Coach Steve,’” Bourne said.
“Yeah, that makes sense,” Julie affirmed. “Sounds like it maybe hit a point where you need to see some change, and it sounds like moving in with your coach or filing those emancipation papers is a way to do it.”
Julie sympathized with “Zenith” that her mother’s enforcement of religious values in the home “sounds really difficult.”
Medical mutilation
After the “teen” expressed a desire to mutilate herself through cross-sex hormones and breast removal surgery, Julie encouraged her.
“I’m also hearing that going on [testosterone], getting top surgery, things like that, are things that would benefit you, and not being able to get that right now is difficult and a situation you want to remove yourself from.”
The hotline has a “quick exit” option for teens to end the call if an adult enters the room.
President Trump has ordered the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) to close its 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline’s LGBTQ+ Youth Specialized Services program, which funds the Trevor Lifeline. The government program will end on July 17th, though The Trevor Project is likely to find other sources of funding.
