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When did your voice start getting deeper?

Started by AquaWhatever, December 13, 2017, 02:03:10 PM

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AquaWhatever

Hey! Been a minute since I been posting here, but I'm back finally.

I know everyone is different in terms of changes, but I'm just curious as to how long it took for most you to finally have your voice drop.

I'm almost 4 months on T and I hear my voice getting deeper a little and breaking but it's still annoyingly female.
I'm growing a mustache and getting body hair and even my jaw is starting to develop more!
In other words all of the changes I was told I'd get months from now I'm getting now and all the changes I was told I'd get in the first 3 months like voice drop or downstairs growth is taking it's sweet time.

Don't get me wrong I'm greatful for my new mustache and increased muscle mass, and a more masculine face developing, but people equate all of that with a feminine voice to a lesbian.

Or being a 14 year old boy..
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meatwagon

man, i've been stuck at "little boy or lesbian??" for so long now even without T lol it's so annoying

i'm only a little over a month on, so no really notable change in voice yet, but people i talk to regularly have pointed out that it sounds like i have a cold (i.e. it gets a little deeper, kind of froggy, but not so different that most people would notice)
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Elis

Within a few weeks. But didn't stabilise and consistently sound male until I'd say the 6 month mark
They/them pronouns preferred.



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Corax

Started about three weeks on T I think but I am not a 100% certain. It surprised me how fast that went and I was really grateful for that because I hated to speak and avoided to speak before.
I still hope that it will get even deeper though ;)
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Kylo

Within the first week it started lowering.

Didn't settle until at least 8 months though, went through 3 or 4 drops and still seems to be dropping after a year.
"If the freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter."
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widdershins

It was enough for me to notice around a month in. It was enough for others to notice about three months in. I hit a solidly male range around the six month mark. After a year, it still hasn't really settled.
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Hughie

I'm following this with interest. I'm only two weeks on T, but looking forward to voice changes! In my first couple of days I had the sore throat thing and temporarily lower voice. Then it went to its usual--then I've been levelled by a bad cold. Today is the first day I'm feeling human in a week. My voice to me sounds like it was pre-T, if not a bit stuffy. I've been trying to track in videos to myself - I did a couple in the first week but haven't since I got sick.


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TransAm

It dropped quick and hard for me--within a couple weeks I was experiencing changes--and after two months it was definitively male. It's dropped a couple more times since then and continues to level out (been on T for 2 years and 2 months). During that period, I completely lost my mid-range and nothing would come out but raspy air when I tried to use it. It's only been in the last four months or so that I've slowly gotten it back.
There are still some notes and tones I can't hit at all.
"I demolish my bridges behind me - then there is no choice but forward." - Fridtjof Nansen
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1234

My voice never really changed with T. I am frustrated;


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Hughie

I think my voice is slightly lower, a month in and post-cold. I do realise I've been well conditioned to use my head voice in speaking rather than speaking from my chest, so that is a mental switch. I don't know if anyone other than me notices the difference.

Oh, I should say that I was on low-dose to start and am in a more middle-of-the-road dose since the third week, so there's that.


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Oblivion

I've used an app called voice pitch analyzer since starting T. I recognised it starting to change within a week or so but from the app I can tell it properly dropped at about 3 months and then it seemed to have levelled out at around 5 months. I'm only at 8 months now so still hoping to have another drop.
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Brandon

Mine dropped within a couple weeks and I am only almost 2 months on T. My voice always sounded pretty deep but now it has stayed deep.
keep working hard and you can get anything you want.    -Aaliyah
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invisiblemonsters

3 months is when it was a noticeable drop for me.
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Ryuichi13

Mine dropped some during the first month, then bounced back and forth for a number of months.  I was enduring the "what voice will I have today?" game during those months.  It was frustrating on pre-T voice days, and I tended not to talk to anyone other than my genderfluid boyfriend if I could help it when that happened.

After 13 months on T, my voice has settled down to a definite male range.  I'd say it was  around the 6 month mark when it hit there and stayed.  But when I get excited, it goes up a little bit but is still well within the male vocal range.

Puberty takes cis men from the age of what...14 years of age to 18-19?  Maybe even age 21, so I'm pretty sure my voice is still settling down.  I'm just happy that its a definite baritone! [emoji4]

Ryuichi


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Ryan55

I want to say around 3 months on T i started noticing the changes and then it would squeak occasionally as it was dropping lol. Other people will notice more than you. I couldn't really tell but when I saw friends after being on T for a month or two, they were like wow your voice changed. Even now, I can't tell how deep my voice is until my girlfriend will tell me, to quiet down that my voice is deep and it carrys lol


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rorythedinosaur

My voice is dropping in the last few weeks. I am 4 months on T now, and it got a tone down. But the ppl who don't know i am on T just think that i have a cold, so it's nothing clearly noticeable i think. I feel like i got "something in my throat". And i had a sore throats some days ago. But i have no squeaking, no breaking, no cracking, so i am wondering if this is just the beginning of it and i have to go through that still, or if i just won't experience these "symptoms".
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SeptagonScars

My voice starting dropping already in the first week of starting T, if I remember correctly, but could have been after 2 weeks. I did voice recordings at the time so I could tell it was changing, but sadly I've lost them years ago now. My voice didn't break much at all, but quite steadily dropped about 2 octaves and settled at somewhere between 6 months to a year after I started taking T. Difficult to know exactly cause I stopped taking T after 1 year, then started again 2 years later which made my voice settle a bit more once I was back on T. Originally I had a fairly deep voice for a female and ended up with a little deeper than average for a male voice. I also did some voice training which probably contributed to its final pitch and tone.
Mar. 2009 - came out as ftm
Nov. 2009 - changed my name to John
Mar. 2010 - diagnosed with GID
Aug. 2010 - started T, then stopped after 1 year
Aug. 2013 - started T again, kept taking it since
Mar. 2014 - top surgery
Dec. 2014 - legal gender marker changed to male
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Jul. 2018 - came out as cis woman and began detransition
Sep. 2018 - stopped taking T and changed my name to Laura
Oct. 2018 - got new ID-card

Medical Detransition plans: breast reconstruction surgery, change legal gender back to female.
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