Transfeminine people with deep, stereotypically masculine voices may train their voices to sound more in line with their gender identity. Working with a vocal coach or an app can help them speak in a ...

For a lot of transgender people, their voice is a major source of gender dysphoria, which is a feeling of significant distress or impairment that stems from a strong desire to be another gender. As ...

Rhea Debussy, 31, began all her vocal therapy sessions with warmups like this. Debussy is a transgender woman and doing vocal therapy over the past six months has helped her achieve a voice that truly ...

Transgender voice therapy is a type of gender-affirming care. It consists of vocal training that helps people with gender dysphoria align their voices with their gender identity. Voice therapy for ...

Many people dislike or even hate the sound of their voice, but for some in the transgender population, the voice they hear can sound mismatched with their authentic self—and can even leave those ...

Anna Lichtenstein, a voice therapist at The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, works with Ari Toumpas on her voice resonance and intonation. Toumpas is a transgender woman and voice care to ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Since Olivia Demir was a child, the 53-year-old transgender woman would wake each morning having had beautiful dreams about living life in a woman’s body.

Semi-occluded vocal tract exercises (SOVTE) have emerged as a pivotal tool in both clinical voice therapy and vocal training. By partially constricting the vocal tract—typically through devices such ...