Quote from: Not-so Fat Admin on June 09, 2013, 01:45:09 PM
Where did you hear this? The voice starts changing within the first couple weeks. It's one of the first effects and will most certainly do the most dropping within the first few months. I'm not even sure it drops much further at all after that. Basically, you'll pretty much have the voice you're going to end up with within the first months. It may or may not lower further afterward but the bulk of the change takes place early.


I'm afraid you're being overly optimistic.  Your voice changing is a physical thing. You can't stop it and you can't predict what kind of voice you'll end up with. Yes, mtf's train their voice. However, as I'm sure the ladies here can tell you, it is very difficult.
And many aren't successful at it.
I wouldn't go into this hoping to reverse or mitigate the voice effects.   

Don't mean to discourage you, if T's right for you, it's right for you. But don't want to see anyone go into this with wrong information. The voice change and genital growth are the very first effects of T and begin immediately (as in the first week or two.)

I hope whatever you decide, you end up with the effects you want.

+1 uh-yeah I'd like to second that! I used to know this rather pretty girl who came to one of my TG support group meetings. She later decided that she was really a he in hiding and eventually got on T. I hadn't seen him for a few months and was beginning to wonder when he turned up at a meeting with this deep basso voice and some facial hair. I was absolutely astounded at the sudden change, I had been totally in the dark about FtM issues until then. Oh, I need to add that prior to that his voice had been a very girly pitched voice which is what made it so amazing!

Hmm, old-ish thread.

My update, I have started T. It was what I  needed to do, in the end, to be comfortable. My need to be male-ish (even though I still cringe a little at the term MAN) steamrolled lingering reservations I had. So far I'm extremely happy with my choice (and relieved).

@Androgynoid

Like the others have said...the voice changes pretty quick. I've been on half-dose T for only 5 weeks, and my voice is significantly lower. My singing voice is completely gone, and I've started that thing where my voice will just sort of...stop, mid word. It's amusing, especially to others! But yeah, there's no way I would be able to talk in my former voice even at this early point. It's just physically not possible (without training, I suppose).

I've watched several videos (admittedly not a huge number) of guys on low-dose T, and within the first few months they could just have a cold, or be talking in a lower pitch (I know I have a very wide range even in a speaking voice, and decent control over it, so what I hear could be normal variation within a day for someone like me). I'm a classically trained singer with a good amount of control over my pitch and resonance as it is, and looking at the men in my family I'm genetically predisposed to not have my voice drop too deep, so I'm not overly worried.

It may be my biggest worry about starting T, but that doesn't mean it's big, if that makes sense. It's not a big enough worry to stop me from doing something so potentially beneficial.

Quote from: androgynoid on June 09, 2013, 05:23:37 PM
I've watched several videos (admittedly not a huge number) of guys on low-dose T, and within the first few months they could just have a cold, or be talking in a lower pitch (I know I have a very wide range even in a speaking voice, and decent control over it, so what I hear could be normal variation within a day for someone like me). I'm a classically trained singer with a good amount of control over my pitch and resonance as it is, and looking at the men in my family I'm genetically predisposed to not have my voice drop too deep, so I'm not overly worried.

Well, like Ford, I was also started on a low dose and mine started changing immediately. Maybe there are guys whose voice took awhile, I don't know. I've never heard of it. But like anything with T, you really can't go by anyone else's results.

As far as relatives go, I ended up with a very different pitch from my father and other relatives. So again, not really something you can bank on. Just saying. You may sound like them, you may not.
I didn't particularly want a deep voice either, so I get the concern. Luckily, mine didn't drop too low. But lots of guys' did.

QuoteIt may be my biggest worry about starting T, but that doesn't mean it's big, if that makes sense. It's not a big enough worry to stop me from doing something so potentially beneficial.

Well, that's good. Unlike a lot of the ladies here, I don't think most guys are thrilled with all the effects of T. I doubt most cis guys are particularly either. Who wants ass hair? lol