Quote from: Dena on December 10, 2018, 10:09:49 PM
The question is are you using your head voice or your chest voice. Women normally use the head voice and that gives them a much higher working range. Singers learn how to use the chest voice which allows them to hit the lower notes. The most notable one was Karen Carpenter who did nearly all of her singing in the chest voice.
Males on the other hand drop into the chest voice and with the effect of Testosterone end up with a much lower voice. By moving our voice up to the chest voice, often the pitch ends up in the feminine rage. In my case before voice surgery, the highest pitch I could reach was about 190HZ with my comfortable head voice at 130-140HZ. Naturally my male voice was really down there in the gutter. The only fix for my voice was to remain silent or voice surgery and that was what originally brought me to Susan's.
I have a hard time to use a chest voice. My throat hurts when I try to do this. Because of not having an Adams Apple, my voice box is smaller than the one of the typical male, it is similar to the voice box of females. this set up gives me a way higher voice. As a male I had a hard time to keep a baritone speaking voice, the singing voice was more like that of a tenor.
Now that I try not to speak in a low frequency range at all anymore, my singing voice is close to the one of a mezzo soprano.
If you just take my voice, and leave the speech pattern outside, I am clearly are in the range of a little lower female voice, but that stupid speech pattern still gives me away. And that is a lot of training to get away from it, after all, it took many decades to learn it!
I am pretty lucky that I hardly need any modifications to my voice or my face, just eliminating the little bit of beard growth, training my voice to eliminate the male speech pattern, and I am optically and acoustically 100% female.
I don't know how much RT will help to achieve this goal, but I believe i better not count on it, and go to the torture chamber to get the facial hair removed.
Becoming a female is relatively easy for me, because I do not have most of the male identifiers you ladies have to fight with, and this could be the reason why I do not have any real bad dysphoria?