Wonderland
Learning to Speak Like a Woman
By Emily Anthes
Posted: August 17, 2011
http://blogs.plos.org/wonderland/2011/08/17/learning-to-speak-like-a-woman/ (http://blogs.plos.org/wonderland/2011/08/17/learning-to-speak-like-a-woman/)
Back in June, Eliza Gray, a reporter at The New Republic, had a remarkable cover story on transgender rights, which she called "America's next great civil rights struggle. (Yes, I know I'm late in covering this, but I've been out of commission for most of the summer. And now that I'm back, I don't want to miss the chance to talk about the story.)
But I am, of course, a science writer, and one part of the story, in particular, really caught my eye. Eliza spent a lot of time with 56-year-old Caroline Temmermand, who is transitioning from male to female. One part of Caroline's transition, it turns out, involved speech therapy.