Ep. 9: Ryan Fouts, Suicide in the LGTBQ Community and Trump Executive Orders

We taped the show on January 31, which marked the 35th anniversary of when my father took his life, so the Big Interview is with Ryan Fouts, the executive director of Reclaim, a Twin Cities mental health nonprofit that serves LGBTQ+ youth. Ryan shares some grim statistics re: the attempted suicide/completed suicide rate for queer youth, and gives some tips if someone in your life seems to be thinking of hurting themself. The Big Story, of course, is about the barrage of Trump executive orders aimed at erasing transgender people. I can’t believe this is America!