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I hope to see more resources in the future

I think that this provided a lot of really good insight on – um, what more can be done for trans and non-binary people, because before I heard some of the ideas from Participant 1 and 3 um, I wasn’t really sure what to say and [...] I was just thinking y’know like, am I overstepping a little bit? Is this not relevant? But I think that this provided a lot of really good insight and um, yeah, I just kind of hope to see more resources in the future for trans and non-binary people who’ve experienced sexual violence.

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