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Did you ever have trouble talking? (MtF)?

a recent question reminded me of a time in my teens when i was so horrified by my voice changing that i could hardly talk at all, and basically shut up for several years.

i didn't talk much again until i figured out some aspects of a more feminine voice - with head resonance and breathy intonation (but not the right pitch just yet) i sounded like a frequency-shifted woman's voice. it sounded weird, but i could live with it until i transitioned and learned to do it properly.

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago
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    I know exactly what you are saying. I was horrified about my voice changing, too. Although I had a very wide singing range, my speaking voice was always pitched somewhat androgynous, even as a child. As the time came that I knew my voice was going to change, I fought every way that I could to try to keep the upper range accessible in my voice. As my voice changed, it settled into a rather high, almost androgynous tenor range, but I still had access to the highest range (like a modern countertenor, just without the formal training). Whenever I would get nervous, my pitch would tend to rise and I didn't have proper control of using my head resonance so it would sound strange at times. This created some interesting problems, especially while in the military where I was taken for a woman when speaking on the telephone or radio a good 75% to 80% of the time without trying, and was usually the subject of a lot of kidding on the part of the other people that I worked with.

    Shortly after I began my transition, I started studying voice (more as an accident when I stumbled into a choir and they discovered that I could sing in the alto section quite comfortably). The classical training that I received sure helped develop vocal muscles and technique that make it almost impossible for me to sound like a man now.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    I was lucky, I was always feminine in voice. I was always taken for female on the phone. As soon as I transitioned every one took me for female.

    When I went to a Trans group I introduced myself with my male name and someones first thought (she told me later) was "this poor girl will never pass as male"

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    the only thing i'm having trouble with is getting you to hook up with me, and i still don't buy that boring trans girl crap either, you know you're hot

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