Posted on 04/25/2017 11:24:08 AM PDT by simpson96
In her 30s, Sophie Marat, now 42, used to record herself reading poetry aloud, then play it back to hear if she sounded like a woman. Ms. Marat, who is transgender, had spent years trying to remake her voice in private by speaking in a higher pitch but ultimately felt that her efforts were hopeless.
“I was feeling like changing my voice to match my gender identity was almost impossible,” she said. “It was terrible.”
Ms. Marat’s transition from male to female has been a gradual evolution. She had come out to friends and family back home in Mexico, then began to wear skirts to work as a software engineer in Manhattan. Still, her confidence would falter with everyday tasks like ordering takeout. “It was really painful to speak on the phone,” she said, “because they would reply, ‘O.K., sir.’”
That was before she started her weekly sessions with a voice therapist at New York University’s speech-language-hearing clinic, one of a growing number of programs that cater to transgender clients seeking to retrain their voices.
Just as some transgender women and men choose to take hormones or have surgery, or choose neither, some seek to feminize or masculinize their voices. Many say they want a voice that matches their appearance or that the change allows them to escape unwanted attention. There’s also a growing recognition among health professionals who have transgender patients that altering one’s voice can improve quality of life and reduce distress.
After eight months, she had raised her pitch, worked on moving her resonance forward and finishing phrases with an open ending, rather than bluntly.
“This isn’t just a sidebar,” said Sandy Hirsch, a Seattle-based speech language pathologist who was a co-author of the pioneering textbook on transgender voice and communication therapy. “It’s
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Most homosexuals were sexually molested as children.
They seek to normalize their behavior so as to attain better access to your children.
“It was really painful to speak on the phone,” she said, “because they would reply, ‘O.K., sir.’”
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That’s because you are a man.
Rejecting your biology is a mental illness.
A face that would make my Rottweiler blink.
These “trans” people look awkward, and will always attract attention they don’t want.
This individual looks like a man playing dress up.
If this person identifies as a woman, he/she/it must realize, that the physical appearance will always be oddball; he/she/it will never look like a real woman.
From the article: "Ms. Marat blows bubbles into a cup, an exercise meant to relax the vocal tract muscles and maximize efficient vibration."
Mental illness is right.
Just what the world needs...more unattractive women.
Like transvestites, they always go for the outer trimmings of femininity - nails, hair, sexy brassieres - things many women start ignoring in their middle-years. In fact, these guys are fetishists, not women “born” into men’s bodies. Ridiculous concept on the face of it.
By the way, you can’t change man hands.
Lol, "It" is still more attractive than most liberal females.
Try Helium.
Rather than having your equipment whacked off to pretend you are female....I suggest just putting your “unit one” in a vice and tighten it....trust me, your voice will be soprano before you know it!
LOL
You’re funny!
She looks just like what I’d imagine someone doing this would.
These are the Marxists in action, making human beings into mentally ill agents, so that they can not reproduce. So they are allowed to adopt and destroy and warp normal children’s perceptions by exposing children to this insanity of body mutilation, to destroy all common sense and natural instincts.
They cost the welfare (communist/slave) “system” hundreds of millions of dollars and the taxpayers have to pick up the bill. This has GOT to be funded only by these insane individuals and their Mengele “doctors” so they don’t collapse the medical system. But, of course, that is the Clinton cartel’s Cloward-Piven effect- and insurance companies and we, the people, are forced to fund this evil mutilation of the body to feed and grow mental illness in our culture—to collapse civil society.
simpson96....you should have put a warning alert, may be bad photo at this link. Cannot unsee what has been seen! ;)
OK, seeing that was my fault....
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