iKate, spot on! I always felt the trained voice only approximated an overly-formal elevator voice that sounds authentic, but it can seem phony or overly-practiced depending on the context it's used in.
The appeal of Yeson and Dr. Haben was that it would allow me to just speak freely and be myself without worrying about slipping up, which was the whole point of transition for me. Years ago, my unpassable voice was one of the reasons I dissuaded myself from transitioning, because doing so seemed realistically impossible because of my voice.
While I didn't go with Yeson, your feedback on the Yeson thread (along with Jenny, Anjaq and a few others), definitely helped me decide that a glottoplasty VFS was now viable, so thanks.
Cadence, ever since your procedure, has the external swelling from the tracheal shave and CTA gone down much? I know the CTA projects the thyroid outwards a little to stretch the vocal folds, but I feel like mine has become a bit more prominent than I'd like even though the tracheal notch is gone.
It's not a big deal, and I'd rather deal with that than an adam's apple, but it's giving me a bit of anxiety because my neck was quite slender before. I wish I had a tape measure to check if I'm just imagining it haha.
