Transgender voice therapy and surgery
https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/other/transgender-voice-therapy-and-surgery/ar-BB1hqzKD?cvid=ce022fe07e9442ab9eb3ff016aa3a1ff&ei=10
May Clinic (29 Jan 2024)
Transgender voice therapy and surgery, also known as gender affirming voice care, involves treatments to help transgender individuals adapt their voices to achieve communication patterns that match their gender identity.
Style of speech, voice and choice of language style is highly personal. Changing how you speak can take years, and changes can feel unfamiliar or even uncomfortable in the beginning.
Transgender voice therapy depends on your needs. A specialist can help you determine your goals and create an individualized plan, as well as show you how to avoid vocal damage as you change your voice and speech.
In some cases, surgery to alter pitch may be an option.
Transgender individuals who seek transgender voice therapy and surgery want to adapt their voices to communicate in a way that matches their gender identity. Transgender voice care can help lessen the discomfort or distress that might accompany a difference between gender identity and sex assigned at birth or sex-related physical characteristics (gender dysphoria).
Having a voice that doesn't match your gender identity can also cause safety issues including harassment, in certain circumstances.
Transgender voice therapy and surgery isn't right for all transgender individuals. You might prefer your current voice or a gender-neutral voice to signal your distinct identity.
This is an important matter for many of us MTFs. Thank you for sharing, and others who share about improving the quality of our voice, plus how we talk and converse, which all goes far beyond the feminine pitch range.
Chrissy
I was searching informations about voice therapy yesterday, and was looking for a therapist near my home, in order to be ready when time will come. I found one who is working now almost exclusively with transgenders, as her name circulated in the community for being transfriendly.
In an interview that woman gave, she explained MTF transgenders have to "unlearn" to use a lower voice, as it was social pressure, that makes boys use it once they've moulted. With her patients, she has to break these habits, coming from strong social codes, she said.
I had no ideas of it, I was convinced it was something natural, the vocal cords lengthen during moulting, lowering the voice into the bass range.
Stéphanie, X X
I was unable to find a voice coach. Even the VA voice pathologist "refused" to help. In their defense, it may be that they were not qualified, had no training, etc. But I was able to find some good YouTube videos on the subject that helped me. I still get triggered when someone calls me "Sir" while talking on the phone. But that just provides the incentive to practice my lessons.
I found the link!
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBYlEnfAUbrYSwF0VujcmHA