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The Largemouth Blenny, Labrisomus xanti, New to the California Marine Fauna with a List of and Key to the Species of Labrisomidae, Clinidae, and Chaenopsidae found in California Waters
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Whose Bodies Count? How Experience Working with Transgender Patients Shapes Conceptualizations of Transgender Identity
Get PDFIn 2013, the American Psychological Association released the fifth edition of the Diagnostic Statistical Manual (DSM). Previous editions of the DSM had used the term “gender identity disorder” (GID) to classify people who felt that the gender they were assigned at birth was incongruent with the gender identity they currently hold. The DSM-5 task force devoted to sexual and gender disorders spent years receiving feedback about the diagnosis and concluded that the gender dysphoria (GD) diagnosis would replace GID. This research project seeks to understand the personal conceptualizations of transgender identity advanced by medical and mental health practitioners, particularly in light of the newly constructed GD diagnosis. I conducted 15 semi-structured, in-depth interviews with therapists, psychologists, and psychiatrists in New York City; Westchester County, New York; and Los Angeles. I found that practitioners with extensive experience working with transgender patients overwhelmingly advanced social constructionist and agential conceptualizations of transgender identity, whereas those with some or no such experience overwhelmingly advanced essentialist formulations. In addition, I inductively found that practitioners who received “feminist teachings” tended to advance a social constructionist understanding of transgender identity, but those without this background maintained mostly essentialist conceptualizations of transgender identity
A Flora of the Ballona Wetlands and Environs
Get PDFA list of vascular plant taxa is provided for a study area that encompasses the current Ballona Wetlands Ecological Reserve, Ballona Freshwater Wetlands, and areas that were part of the historic Ballona Wetlands and adjacent bluffs. The flora for this area has been documented in unpublished reports and voucher collections but not compiled into a single list. A total of 407 taxa comprise this flora, of which 40% are not indigenous to California. This percentage is higher than the percentage of non-indigenous species in California as a whole (17%). Out of 242 native species reported for the study area, 26 percent (62 species) have not been observed or collected since major hydrological alterations of the watershed began in the 1930s. Restoration planned for the Ballona Wetlands Ecological Reserve offers an opportunity to re-introduce some of the historically native flora, including rare and endangered species
A Baseline Investigation into the Population Structure of White Seabass, Atractoscion nobilis, in California and Mexican Waters Using Microsatellite DNA Analysis
Get PDFThe white seabass, Atractoscion nobilis, is a commercially important member of the Sciaenidae that has experienced historic exploitation by fisheries off the coast of southern California. For the present study, we sought to determine the levels of contemporary population connectivity among localities distributed throughout the species’ range using nuclear microsatellite markers. Data from the present study have revealed three distinct genetic units of white seabass: one in the north including the Southern California Bight to Ensenada, another in the south including Punta Abreojos, and the last from within the Gulf of California