Understanding Transphobic Microaggressions and How to Avoid Them

Your Course Description

Your Competency Focus Area

Intercultural Engagement

Transgender youth face disproportionately high rates of mental health challenges, in part because of the constant burden of microaggressions, misgendering, and environments that fail to affirm who they are. These everyday experiences of exclusion can deeply affect their well-being and sense of belonging.
This course will give you concrete tools to reduce harm and increase affirmation, including understanding the impact of microaggressions, practicing respectful language, and applying the CPR (Calm, Practice humility, Repair) model when mistakes occur.
By committing to these practices, you can create safer, more supportive spaces where transgender young people not only feel seen but are able to thrive.

Your Learning Objectives

Recognize the impact of microaggressions and understand why avoiding them is important
Recognize common trans microaggressions and practice affirming language
Learn and practice the CPR model for responding to microaggressions

Your Course Details

Interactive
Completion Certificate
Youth Worker Track
This training will count as 1 CE hour for most boards. Please contact your board directly with questions on submitting.

Your Trainer

Logan Sand (they/them) has been with Lutheran Social Service’s Seeing and Exploring Life’s Future (SELF) Program since 2017 and has been a sexuality educator since 2014. Their teaching philosophy is to provide anti-oppression and social justice focused education, with a particular focus on consent, self-reflection, and gender inclusion. Prior to joining LSS, Logan worked in counseling training and curriculum development for Family Tree Clinic in St. Paul, Minnesota and taught Introduction to Human Sexuality at Montgomery County Community College in Pennsylvania. They have served as an adjunct professor at Adler Graduate School and University of MN’s Center for Advanced Studies in Child Welfare. Logan has an M.Ed. in Human Sexuality Education from Widener University, holds a B.A. in Neuroscience Studies and Psychology from Macalester College, and was published in the American Journal of Sexuality Education in 2018. Logan has been an AASECT certified sex educator since April 2025.