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Members of transgender chorus find their voices

Started by Willowicious, August 24, 2015, 06:01:54 PM

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Members of transgender chorus find their voices

Kathleen Burge
Boston Globe
24th August 2015

https://www.bostonglobe.com/lifestyle/2015/08/23/butterfly-music-transgender-men-and-women-discover-new-voices-and-community/oYFfVD872VMitiAUwYWmgJ/story.html

"HE PLUNGED A NEEDLE filled with testosterone into his thigh each week. He changed his name to Andre and announced that he was becoming a man. His muscles grew.

In nearly every way, his new body fit him better than his old one. Then his voice deepened, as expected, and he tried to sing. He grieved for the voice he had lost, the one he had trained for six years in choruses and choirs, the voice he still heard inside his head."


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