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Community Conversation => Female to male transsexual talk (FTM) => Transsexual talk => Testosterone => Topic started by: Marlove92 on August 31, 2015, 09:05:22 AM

Title: Will my voice change ?
Post by: Marlove92 on August 31, 2015, 09:05:22 AM
Just curious..

Will my voice change if I take "too much T" and some of it aromatizes into Estrogens?
Title: Re: Will my voice change ?
Post by: Dena on August 31, 2015, 09:21:23 AM
It takes very little T to change a voice. There are some women with enough T in their system to have lower than normal female voice. How low the voice will go is a matter of genetics. Sadly I had to deal with a very low voce thanks to my mother's father but most men have a a higher voice than mine was.
Title: Re: Will my voice change ?
Post by: Tysilio on August 31, 2015, 11:11:13 AM
Your voice will change if you're on T -- that seems to be the one change that's pretty much universal for trans guys.

That said, you don't want your T level to be too high; some of the excess will indeed be converted to estrogen, and that can hinder your transition, as well as having other undesirable effects: sore nipples, breast enlargement, breakthrough bleeding...

This is definitely a case in which more isn't better.
Title: Re: Will my voice change ?
Post by: Marlove92 on August 31, 2015, 11:34:07 AM
So basicly it will hinder voice dropping?
Title: Re: Will my voice change ?
Post by: Tysilio on August 31, 2015, 12:14:53 PM
It could, but that's not the main reason to keep your T level within normal range. The things I mentioned above are serious concerns.
Title: Re: Will my voice change ?
Post by: RaptorChops on August 31, 2015, 05:03:53 PM
I really hope you are seeing an endocrinologist and not taking this stuff without a doctors consent.