Date: July 31,9 a.m.-12 p.m.
Presented by: Logan Sand (they/them) and Ly Baumgardt (it/he)
Pricing: $59.99 (non-member), $49.99 (member), $39.99 (autistic individual)
Held Virtually: recording will be available for one month after the workshop
Current research undeniably supports the value of comprehensive sexuality education, with benefits ranging from reduced rates of unplanned pregnancies and sexually transmitted infections, to decreased instances of sexual harm, to a positive impact on global climate change; however, these important conversations are often not inclusive of autistic and neurodivergent individuals. This is not only because health class is often deprioritized for these students, but also because sexuality topics like consent and healthy relationships are often covered through the lens of unwritten and assumed social rules. This often leaves both autistic individuals and their support system feeling underequipped to discuss important topics like consent, boundaries, healthy relationships, and socially appropriate behaviors within those relationships. This workshop aims to demystify those topics and provide tangible tools for their discussion.
Presenters
Logan Sand has been with the LSS SELF Program since 2017 and has been a sexuality educator since 2014. Logan currently teaches a sexual development elective at the Center for Advanced Studies in Child Welfare at the University of MN and has served as an adjunct professor teaching sexuality at Adler Graduate School. Before LSS, Logan worked in training and curriculum development for Family Tree Clinic in St. Paul and taught Introduction to Human Sexuality at Montgomery County Community College.
Ly Baumgardt started with the SELF team at the start of 2025 and has been a sex educator since 2015. Ly’s focus is on intersex liberation, health at every size, youth rights, disability justice, and trans and intersex healthcare. Before LSS, Ly co-founded the local trans and intersex nonprofit TIGERRS and works as their intersex coordinator alongside his role at LSS. It has worked with interACT and the Houston Intersex Society around intersex policy, education, medical trainings, and peer healthcare, and has been a youth worker and youth sex educator for the past 7 years at TIGERRS, Transforming Families, and the Minnesota Transgender Health Coalition. He has also led district competency trainings for teachers on queer sex education and trans students in Hopkins and has worked in city and state policy. It currently runs the Minnesota trans resource directory and collects resources for the Minnesota Trans and Intersex Resource Network. He is a recipient of Red Door Clinic’s Stellar Award. Ly loves roller skating, cats, podcasts about antizionist Jewish vampires, making uquizzes, hoarding local queer knowledge, the concept of ghosts (but not really), and questionably bad music.