Ep 17: Sex, Sexuality, and Gender with Worner Leland

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This conversation, we sat down with Worner. We got way more than we could have imagined. Tune in to hear how sex, sexuality, and gender can be conceptualized and addressed ethically. The gems are ever-flowing in this eppy. We hope that you enjoy the conversation, as much as we enjoyed recording it. Please follow us on FB @BeautifulHumansCast or IG @BeautifulHumansChange More about Worner: Worner Leland, MS, BCBA, LBA (they/them pronouns) is a researcher and educator at Upswing Advocates and a Board Certified Behavior Analyst at Empowered: A Center for Sexuality. For the past several years, Worner has also served as a sex educator with a focus on expanding affirming sexual education, consent education, and education on sexuality and data collection, and their research has focused on intimacy-related behaviors in the queer community. Worner is also a Past President and the current Research and Dissemination Liaison of the ABAI Sexual Behavior Research and Practice SIG. Resources shared during this conversation: The Sexual Behavior Research and Practice SIG of ABAI The SBRP SIG Facebook Page Serving LGBTQIA Clients and Their Allies (in Connors & Capell, 2020) Upswing's Website Resources Page Empowered's Website Stein, S. & Dillenburger, K. (2017). Ethics in sexual behavior assessment and support for people with intellectual disability. International Journal of Disability and Human Development, 16(1), 11-17. https://doi.org/10.1515/ijdhd-2016-0023 Leland, W. & Stockwell, A. (2019). A self-assessment tool for cultivating affirming practices with transgender and gender-nonconforming (TGNC) clients, supervisees, students, and colleagues. Behavior Analysis Practice 12, 816–825. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40617-019-00375-0 CE information below: Objectives: a) Define sex, gender, and sexuality through a verbal behavior context, focusing on the function of language to describe different aspects of personal identity b) Describe ethical issues in the analysis of sexual behavior, and ethical considerations in serving clients with marginalized sexual and/or gender identities c) Describe best practice for building competency and working within one’s scope regarding sexual behavior, and while serving clients with marginalized sexual and/or gender identities d) Describe the history and principles of harm reduction as they apply to behavior analysis, and especially sexual behavior analysis e) Explain how a perspective of neurodiversity differs from a more traditional view of intellectual and learning disability or mental illness, and the impact of this framework on behavior analytic sex education --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/beautiful-humans/support