Do you sing?

[AmandaJones]

Do you sing, as your true gender?

Did you sing, before you found yourself?

I love singing, and I'm kind of terrified that becoming Mandy might rob me of that... retraining a bass-baritone into something feminine sounds... Hard. I don't know if I could deal with being unable to sing any more.

[LordKAT]

I love singing. I even tried Karaoke once. I never seen so many people go so quiet just to hear me sing. I thought, "Maybe I really can sing."



When I finished, the bar quietly asked me to leave and never sing again, so did the people providing the karaoke stuff.

Oh well, I live alone, and the shower doesn't complain, and the car stereo is plenty loud enough.

[Jill F]

I still sound like Bon Scott. 

Le sigh.  I wish I could sound like Ann Wilson.

[Kylie]

Singing was my favorite thing in the world until my voice changed. I had no passion for singing like a male so I stopped singing in performance type settings.  I would still sing as my true gender when I was in the car, at home, etc. even karaoke on occasion.  Now something has happened to my voice in the last two years that I cannot hit even moderately high notes anymore. It is like my chords can't tighten and I have a vibration that bothers my throat.  It makes me very sad, I don't sing much at all anymore.

[Miss_Bungle1991]

Yeah, I sing.

I'm okay at it. I like to bounce back and forth between melodic stuff and harsher styles. Mike Patton was a massive inspiration to me in that regard.

[Felix]

Hmm. I always sang exuberantly and badly, so my experience with it isn't really advice material. I sang constantly and loudly as a girl, and anyone who knew me knew how happy I was by how intolerably I sang. When I was deeply depressed I didn't sing at all, and when I was merely sad I sang only in acceptable places like the shower. When I was okay I belted out unskilled joy pretty much everywhere. I was reprimanded at work for it all the time.

I don't sing much anymore, though I think people are more okay with a male voice singing off-key. There's too much on the line now. I need people on my side if a crisis comes up.

I still very much value singing even if I don't do it much. I don't care that my voice is different, and I don't have much of a preference between my male voice and my female voice. I have always loved using my voice. Singing is so important. I'm sorry most people have to face so much judgement when they sing.

[FTMDiaries]

Every single day, in the car on the way to work and on the way home. It takes me more than an hour to drive between the two so I tend to have music blaring the whole way.

Now that testosterone is working its magic on my vocal cords, I find that I can sing along better to the artists I enjoy. I've always preferred songs by male vocalists (with a few notable exceptions, such as ABBA)... because pre-transition I had major issues with songs by female vocalists: any time I'd sing along to one of their songs, my voice would naturally sound female and it would trigger my dysphoria to hear my voice sounding like that. It just didn't feel like my voice.

Now, singing along to fellow baritones like Dave Gahan, Michael Stipe or David Bowie feels absolutely fantastic. Even Rick Astley is a joy for me. (Yeah, I was a teenager in the 1980s. So sue me.)

[Kaylee]

Yeah, I sing.

I'm okay at it. I like to bounce back and forth between melodic stuff and harsher styles. Mike Patton was a massive inspiration to me in that regard.

I quite frequently used to proclaim that I'd cut off my own balls if I could sing like Mike Patton...friends thought I was joking

[Incarlina]

I only sing as voice practice. I was a bass in the school choir, and not a very good one.
I made a quick recording of what I sound like now. (warning! Midi metal and j-pop ahead!) http://cadaverosa.com/2014/karaoke.mp3
I was too lazy to transpose the song down, so the highest notes are right at the top of my range.

[Jess42]

Yeah, I can sing it's just considered involuntary manslaughter where I live.

[AnneB]

My family had always had great singing voices, I inherited a pretty good tenor voice and can go fairly high, I can go kinda low too but really prefer my girls alto or messo voice. I just really worry how hard its going to be to move my speaking voice up into the range I want.  June Allyson's (50's actress) voice range is where I probably will be most comfortable.. sort of like Bea Arthur's raspy lower range.  I sing a LOT and.. mostly Disney music.. so this made me split my panties laffing!

[Danee]

I'm an androgynous male/occasional drag queen (I really don't know how to describe myself, maybe gender fluid?) though I still look 100% male, I'd say my voice is somewhere in between.

[jaybutterfly]

I used to take lessons, briefly. My teacher told me I had I actually had a really good vocal range so we played around with scales and I can get really high and really low, but my control is off on my highest notes.

Since Ive been practicing softening my normal voice to sound more feminine, Im finding those notes easier.

Maybe someday I'll get back to singing properly

I wish I sounded like Grace Potter or P!nk

[Miss_Bungle1991]

I quite frequently used to proclaim that I'd cut off my own balls if I could sing like Mike Patton...friends thought I was joking

Yeah, I love his work. Especially when he was in Mr Bungle. That band was soooooo good!

[HoneyStrums]

Do I sing? YES

CAN I sing NOOOOO

But yeah I ve always been fond of the Disney songs.

So many things to tell them,
but how to make them see.
The truth about my past... impossible!
they'd turn away from Meeee.

I'm holding back, I'm hiding
but why? I cant decide.
Why cant I be the GIRL I know I am,
The girl I see inside.

But yeah, according to family I crack windows and eardrumbs. singing well has never been an issue of mine, I sing when I fel good about myself, and im prepared to put up listening to the worst singers in the world, all because I hear the self esteem tjat comes with it ;p

[Natkat]

I sing mostly in the shower because im shy but I do like to sing, have done a couple of choir singing in the past and did also join singing lessons for a short period.
Pre-T I had a very high voice but I prefern to make it deeper because it gave me dyshoria if people would see me as a girl.
I stopped singing lessons because my teacher loved my high noted and did not like me swithing between sepran and tenor which I usunally do.

[JulieBlair]

To sing is to make a joyful noise!  I sing as much and as often as I can.  To spare the sensibilities of those who would rather not hear I ...  Actually, I don't do anything but encourage them to join.

When I am sad I sing, when I am filled with joy I sing.  For me to not sing would be to surrender to my inauthentic self.  It helps with voice training, and It most certainly helps with how I feel about myself.  Give me a guitar, a harmonica, a keyboard and I'll find something to smile about even if it isn't very good.  I do not make music because I have much talent, but rather because music completes me.  Always has, always will.

So if you are camping, walking, jogging, whatever and you hear a perhaps slightly out of tune note wafting through the air, join me in harmony, or at least join me in a smile.

Laugh,
Julie

[Miharu Barbie]

I shouldn't sing... but I do.  I started playing the guitar last summer (huge fun!) and singing sort of comes with the territory.  I sing in the car.  I sing to my dog.  Sometimes when I'm walking up and down the hallways of the office building where I work, I sing softly to myself.  I sometimes even sing softly in my cubicle.  My co-workers are very tollerant.

Fortunately, my partner likes to hear me singing while I strum the guitar.

I would say that I sing very badly... and shamelessly. 

[Pica Pica]

I sing all the time, especially in the morning when I stroll into work. That makes me sound very jolly, I suppose I might be.

Mostly I sing snatches of broadside ballads because I like the tunes but there are bits of punk and blues thrown in there.

You can't get me off the karaoke. I once got a really good deal at a pawnbrokers because of my version of baby love I'd done at the pub the night before, I'd done it as Diana Ross with falsetto and dance moves.

My mum was a disco nut so I am grew up singing along in falsetto.

[Gina Taylor]

Yeah, I sing. Been told that I sing better when it's  a slow type song. But now that I've removed the bass from my voice, I think it sounds better.