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Title: BBC report: "Identifying gender when you`re blind"
Post by: CollieLass on November 11, 2015, 11:02:06 AM
A different perspective from Mike Lambert on BBC-Radio 4`s 'In Touch' programme.

"Identifying gender when you`re blind"

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/disability-34776343 (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/disability-34776343)

BBC/By Mike Lambert Guest blogger 11 November 2015 From the section Disability

"It is sometimes difficult to determine somebody's gender by sight but what if you're blind and only have their voice to go on? Mike Lambert, who is totally blind, describes a recent experience and how he resolved an awkward situation."
Title: Re: BBC report: "Identifying gender when you`re blind"
Post by: CaptainxTatsuo on November 19, 2015, 10:59:06 PM
Wow!
Thank You For Posting This!!
It's an eye opener for those whom
are unable to see what we look like.
Title: Re: BBC report: "Identifying gender when you`re blind"
Post by: Shana-chan on November 22, 2015, 05:32:19 PM
I believe there's a lot from this that everyone can take away from. :)
Title: Re: BBC report: "Identifying gender when you`re blind"
Post by: Tristyn on November 22, 2015, 08:31:11 PM
Dude, so I must be a 'girl' after all!  :o Since even a blind man at my dialysis center assumed me as such. Maybe I am. I dunno. Can you guys tell me? I'm about to lose it. I'm gonna lose my mind. Well, what's left of it.
Title: Re: BBC report: "Identifying gender when you`re blind"
Post by: sparrow on November 22, 2015, 09:37:56 PM
Nix, get you on some T, and your voice will drop.  Problem solved.  Transwomen have a harder time with this if their vocal chords are already too long when they start HRT.  Hence voice training and vocal feminization surgery.