The Outlook is our weekly roundup of political issues that affect the LGBTQ+ community.
- The LGBTQ+ youth option on the 988 crisis line may be shut down Oct. 1, per a draft U.S. Department of Health and Human Services budget. The line launched in 2022 to support queer youth at higher risk for suicide.
- The Trump administration has brought its request to deny transgender troops from serving in the Armed Forces to the U.S. Supreme Court.
- In California, LGBTQ+ Democrat Jake Rakov is looking to challenge his former boss, Congressman Brad Sherman (D-Sherman Oaks), for his seat in the 2026 primaries.
- Equality Michigan warns that federal actions may derail gender-affirming care in the state.
- California Congressman Robert Garcia traveled to El Salvador to inquire on the well-being of Andry Hernández Romero, a gay asylum seeker who was detained and incarcerated in El Salvador.