I am wondering for a while about this as it puzzles me a lot. I read occasionally when it comes to male and female voices that with testosterone the voice box drops, grows larger, the vocal folds get longer and this results in an protusion called the adams apple. It seems to me that this is false but I see it repeated again and again in the internet. Does anyone know how this works? What is the correlation between having an adams apple and anything else with the voice box?
Most women who are feeling that they have been born with the wrong gonads like me in my vicinity, that i know of have basically no adams apple, although I know that a lot of transgender women do have that problem. Yet from the women I know, some have very low pitched original voices, some do not. So is that adams apple something independent from voice or pitch or should there be a connection? Admittedly none of us ever has had the vocal chords measured in length, but I assume that a low pitch requires long vocal folds.
Is there any information out there? It is mainly curiousity - does not really change anything in terms of what has to be done.
