Read on Twitter
Trans voice thread I always like to educate folks on just what an intense journey voice transition is.
Did you know?
- Trans women and AMAB Non binary feminine presenting folk who wish to feminize their voice have to go through literal hell to change their voice?
- When you go through male puberty your larynx (voice box) grows and your vocal cords lengthen (like a guitar string), including muscles around cords. A lot of the work to sound feminine or cis “passing” is behavioural but the hardest part is adjusting the resonances through...
... therapy. Those resonances include R1 (Larynx position), R2 (Area/passageway back of your mouth) and R3 (Area in front of mouth/teeth/mouth shape) and training those muscles and habits usually takes years. Training requires therapy from a voice therapist and is incredibly...
... costly. Ive personally spent like 2000 pounds just on therapy.
- The other option is voice feminization surgery called Glottoplasty using an endoscopic laser/sutures shortening the length of vibrating segment of cords allowing for higher pitch or Cricothyroid approximation.
- The other option is voice feminization surgery called Glottoplasty using an endoscopic laser/sutures shortening the length of vibrating segment of cords allowing for higher pitch or Cricothyroid approximation.
...(CTA) that increases cord tension using sutures on the voice box. All this is expensive and risky and people get varied results.
- Some trans femme folk go through this intense and difficult journey because it alleviates dysphoria and its such a huge factor when it comes..
- Some trans femme folk go through this intense and difficult journey because it alleviates dysphoria and its such a huge factor when it comes..
.. to being gendered correctly.
- Hormones does absolutely nothing to feminize a voice.
- Trans men or AFAB transmasculine non-binary folks on the other hand have amazing results without voice therapy by just relying on hormones, the voice box grows and vocal cords lengthen...
- Hormones does absolutely nothing to feminize a voice.
- Trans men or AFAB transmasculine non-binary folks on the other hand have amazing results without voice therapy by just relying on hormones, the voice box grows and vocal cords lengthen...
... and after few months sound totally masculine or “passing”
- AFAB Nonbinary folk that wish to have a neutral voice can achieve it through behavior or micro-dosing of hormones
- AMAB Nonbinary folks that wish to have a neutral voice have to usually do minimal effort to...
- AFAB Nonbinary folk that wish to have a neutral voice can achieve it through behavior or micro-dosing of hormones
- AMAB Nonbinary folks that wish to have a neutral voice have to usually do minimal effort to...
... slightly raise voice to to get the results they desire.
Personally I still hate my voice because even though I sound fine/passing when I put effort and prepare it quickly drops when im tired/nervous/have talked too much. I might do surgery in the future because it...
Personally I still hate my voice because even though I sound fine/passing when I put effort and prepare it quickly drops when im tired/nervous/have talked too much. I might do surgery in the future because it...
... is one of my biggest sources of dysphoria.
Hope this gives non-trans folk a little perspective on the difficulties trans people can go through with their voices.
Hope this gives non-trans folk a little perspective on the difficulties trans people can go through with their voices.
Simple things like breathing, whispering, coughing, agreeing “uh-huh”, grunting, takes specific conscious effort to do in a feminine way. If only it were as simple as saying out words.
oh did I mention that laughing is like some fucking high-art falsetto grandmaster level voice feminizing? And godlike level is singing?
