Quote from: NatalieRene on December 17, 2018, 11:32:01 PM
I don't like my voice if I go deep. I only really use it to sing Queen songs. Day to day my natural voice has always been around 180 to 200 hz. I have paper work somewhere back home from the voice training documenting my metrics.
Being male for me is a huge source of dysphoria. To the extent where I only had girl friends for when my parents came over and they where just friends I knew. Many of them would have wanted to have been mine but I wasn't emotionally available. Everything about the role was foreign and aliens to me. The only thing I was ever good at was track, shooting, martial arts and programming.
My voice is lower than yours, somewhere between mezzo soprano and alto, but that can be age related. It is not the pitch of my voice that gives me away, it is this stupid male speech pattern that I acquired while living as a male all those years. I also had mostly female friends, and felt (and still do - I hate this constant pounding the chest to show who is the bigger, better guy) rather uncomfortable around many males. It did not help that I had to attend an all male school, at which my closest friend ( knowing what I know now, I think he was also intersex or trans) and I were pretty much outsiders.
You were much more masculine than I was, I was not good at all at any sports, just dabbled a little around with basket ball, because I was so tall for those times.
My friend and I liked tinkering around, first on our bicycles, than with our mopeds, and finally with cars. And both of us became engineers (I was a EE prior to going to med school. And I worked for a while for Big Blue and did my fair share of programming).
But I have no dysphoria whatsoever running around as a guy, because I am still pretty much free of any gender identity, but I lean very heavy toward the female side, and I hope very much to be able to finally identify with this gender.
Well, but for the moment I am still glad that I can be a guy whenever I feel like I need to be one!