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Before he took the class Transnational Sexualities, Casey Klemmer had not heard anything about transgender people outside of Virginia.

Dan Kingsley, a graduate professional assistant in Mason’s LBGTQ+ Resources Center, helps to create community through the center’s peer mentoring program.