Finding your voice as a trans person doesn't have to be hard. Just ask Nicole Gress.https://www.queerty.com/finding-your-voice-as-a-trans-person-doesnt-have-to-be-hard-just-ask-nicole-gress-20260713/?utm_source=lgbtqnation&utm_medium=directlink&utm_campaign=directlink&utm_content=Finding+your+voice+as+a+trans+person+doesn%E2%80%99t+have+to+be+hard.+Just+ask+Nicole+Gress 🔗 [Link: queerty.com/finding-your-voice-as-a-trans-person-doesnt-have-to-be-hard-just-ask-nicole-gress-20260713/].
Henry Giardina (13 July 2026)
For trans people, getting comfortable with your voice at any stage can be a challenge. Going on HRT can help us feel affirmed in our gender, but when voice training is often a more fraught part of the equation. Too many speech pathologists still used a dated, binary gender model for voice training that can make the problem worse while costing a fortune.
But for one company, the trans-led speech service Undead Voice, thinking differently has yielded gamechanging results.
Undead Voice founder Nicole Gress knows it doesn't have to be difficult to find a voice you're comfortable with. She's also dedicated to making her services affordable, and easy to navigate for folks at every stage of their transition. Her Jumpstart program, a three-week course with open enrollment, makes the work radically accessible, is just gaining ground, ushering in a new era of voice training for folks at every point in their transition.
Queerty spoke to Gress about her commitment to changing the field of voice training, helping incarcerated folks gain access, and teaching people to think different about voice, gender, and care. Here's what she had to say...
We actually have a mantra: voices don't have gender, people do. One of the torches that I will carry infinitely is this that we don't use any gendered language. We're not saying we "feminize" a voice or "masculinize" a voice, because if I say that, 10 people hear that and they have 10 different ideas of what a "feminine" voice is, and none of them are the same. What ends up happening [with that] is you pigeonhole people into a stereotyped expectation of what that voice is, as opposed to just giving them the tools and the agency to create the voice that most affirms them.=========================================================================
Please do not consider this post to be an endorsement of the company mentioned in this article. However, it is a resource you may want to investigate if you're interested in help with your voice.
Love always -- Jessica Rose
