Do Transmasculine Speakers Present With Gender-Related Voice Problems? Insights From a Participant-Centered Mixed-Methods Study

Azul, David; Arnold, Aron; Neuschaefer‐Rube, Christiane

doi:10.1044/2017_jslhr-s-16-0410

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“…This questionnaire for trans men was based on the questionnaire for trans women, but some items (e.g., items 11 and 16) appear less relevant in trans men. Trans men seem to experience more diverse gender-related voice problems than trans women (Azul, 2015;Azul, Arnold, & Neuschaefer-Rube, 2018;Azul, Nygren, S€ odersten, & Neuschaefer-Rube, 2017). 2, 7, 8, 12, 13, 16, 17, 23, 25, 26, 30 3, 4, 6, 10, 19, 20, 24, 28 5, 9, 11, 14, 21, 22, 27, 29 , 12, 13, 17, 23, 25 3, 4, 6, 10, 11, 19, 20, 24 1, 7, 8, 26, 28, 30 In future, offering more specific items for virilizing or feminizing effects on voice should be considered.…”

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Organizing the voice questionnaire for transgender persons

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Defreyne

et al. 2019

International Journal of Transgender Health

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Background: The validated Transsexual Voice Questionnaire Male to Female (TVQ MtF ) and the adapted TVQ Female to Male (FtM) (TVQ FtM ) are both 30-item-long questionnaires used to evaluate self-perception of voice in transgender persons. They are part of a series of questionnaires completed by transgender persons during follow-up of cross-sex hormone therapy (CSHT). Aim: The aim of this study was to examine if these questionnaires can be organized. Methods: The TVQ MtF or the TVQ FtM was filled out at the start of CSHT, by 145 trans women and 83 trans men. Data were analyzed by factor analyses on both the questionnaires. Results: The factor analyses resulted in a three-factor solution for both the TVQ MtF and the TVQ FtM . The three factors were labeled as anxiety and avoidance, vocal identity, and vocal function. Conclusion:Both the questionnaires can be organized into three factors. This could contribute to making shorter versions of the questionnaires. Shorter versions would be useful to hormone prescribing physicians to track down more quickly voice problems in trans people undergoing virilizing or feminizing hormone treatment.

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Organizing the voice questionnaire for transgender persons

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Defreyne

et al. 2019

International Journal of Transgender Health

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“…The first notion of voice is highly relevant for my participants, because a lower pitch is one of the most salient physical changes that occurs through taking testosterone. Many transmasculine individuals are highly aware of and greatly anticipate the changes in their voice (Azul 2015;Azul et al 2018), such that they often engage in metalinguistic and folk linguistic evaluations of their own voice-not only pitch, but also resonance and speech perceptions. But interestingly, these metalinguistic evaluations also frequently include uses of the term voice in a metaphorical sense to refer to things ranging from contributions, opinions, and perspectives, to a recognition of power and representation within social spaces (e.g., "I don't have a voice" or "my voice was silenced").…”

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The weight of the voice: gender, privilege, and qualic apperception

Crowley¹

2021

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For transmasculine individuals who undergo testosterone therapy, a lower pitch is often one of the most desired results, both for personal affirmation as well as for how a low pitch is gendered by others. This paper explores how members from a peer support group for transmasculine individuals articulate their experiences taking testosterone. During interviews participants discussed their apperception of the acoustic changes in their voices (Zimman 2012, 2018) as well as the recognition of this change by others. In this paper, I explore how their apperceptions of their voices are organized around a cluster of related qualia of the voice (Harkness 2014, 2017) such as “heaviness”, “deepness”, “resonance”, and social “weightiness”. As their voices lower in pitch over time and they are more frequently gendered as men in social spaces, they navigate shifting positionalities of privilege, and I show how their descriptions of their voices naturalize various qualia of the voice, linking “deepness” to the social “weight”, or power, of a voice.

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“…Studies have shown that voice change is of great importance to transmasculine individuals 1 and that voice dissatisfaction may be present in a majority of this population. 2 Transgender voice modification targets the voice and other aspects of communication to help the individual achieve congruence between voice and gender expression. A Voice modification services primarily have been offered to transfeminine individuals, given the limited-to-absent voice changes from estrogen during hormone replacement therapy (HRT) and the permanent laryngeal changes from testosterone exposure.…”

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“…9 In another study, 79% of transmasculine participants reported that they were not satisfied with their pitch after several months of HRT. 2 Further, a longitudinal study of trans men during testosterone treatment showed that 24% of the individuals reported negative voice symptoms after testosterone. 10 Training techniques and goals for transmasculine individuals differ significantly from those of transfeminine individuals.…”

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confidence: 99%