Jim Parsons is blasting President Donald Trump‘s administration for shutting down one of many nation’s disaster hotlines, which provided tailor-made help for LGBTQ youth and younger adults.

The Large Bang Principle star made a latest look on MSNBC’s The Weekend, the place he criticized the choice to finish the 988 Nationwide Suicide & Crisis Lifeline’s LGBTQ service on July 17.

“I believe it’s fairly actually prison,” Parsons mentioned. “It’s one of many sorts of selections that you just’re like, ‘There’s no good motive for it.’ It doesn’t matter what motive you ever put in the direction of it or say it’s the rationale it’s taking place, it’s by no means going to be justified.”

The brazenly homosexual actor, who’s married to Todd Spiewak, continued, “It’s only hurtful and it feels prefer it’s solely being performed as a way to make a degree, we’re eliminating this as a result of we need to be sure sure folks perceive they’re not welcome right here.”

Based on Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), the LGBTQ youth program served greater than 1.4 million callers because it launched in September 2022. Callers now don’t have the choice to “Press 3” for specialised LGBTQ help.

SAMHSA wrote in an announcement after it was introduced that the Trump administration could be shutting down the specialised service, “Everybody who contacts the 988 Lifeline will proceed to obtain entry to expert, caring, culturally competent disaster counselors who can assist with suicidal, substance misuse, or psychological well being crises, or some other sort of emotional misery. Anybody who calls the Lifeline will proceed to obtain compassion and assist.”