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Keygan Miller, advocacy manager at The Trevor Project, a nonprofit focused on suicide prevention for LGBTQ+ youth, said that a therapist doesn’t have to identify as queer or trans to help a student who does. Reyna Smith, a doctoral candidate in psychology at the University of the Cumberlands in Kentucky.
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