2015
DOI: 10.5603/ep.a2016.0052
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Gender-related voice problems in transsexuals — therapeutical demands

Abstract: The paper presents a case study of a transsexual patient who underwent a voice pitch elevation surgery performed in Poland for the first time. The human voice is a reflection of the working of hormones and human psyche. This fact is of particular importance in transsexualism, a disorder consisting in incongruence between the individual's biological sex and their identified gender. For many transsexual people, especially of the MTF (male to female) type, who have undergone hormonal and surgical sex change, the … Show more

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“…The mean f0 found in the case group was 159 Hz, which was lower than that in the control group but within the f0 range considered to constitute female vocal standards. It should be taken into account that the case group in the present study did not receive speech therapy or surgical interventions involving the larynx, so this elevation of f0 reaching the female range was obtained by means of instinctive adaptations or favorable anatomy (Ansara and Hegarty, 2012;Oates and Dacakis, 2015;Misołek et al, 2016;Schneider et al, 2017) (Table 1). This factor may also be related to body size (Leung et al, 2018) and more feminine facial characteristics (Misołek et al, 2016).…”
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“…The mean f0 found in the case group was 159 Hz, which was lower than that in the control group but within the f0 range considered to constitute female vocal standards. It should be taken into account that the case group in the present study did not receive speech therapy or surgical interventions involving the larynx, so this elevation of f0 reaching the female range was obtained by means of instinctive adaptations or favorable anatomy (Ansara and Hegarty, 2012;Oates and Dacakis, 2015;Misołek et al, 2016;Schneider et al, 2017) (Table 1). This factor may also be related to body size (Leung et al, 2018) and more feminine facial characteristics (Misołek et al, 2016).…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…It should be taken into account that the case group in the present study did not receive speech therapy or surgical interventions involving the larynx, so this elevation of f0 reaching the female range was obtained by means of instinctive adaptations or favorable anatomy (Ansara and Hegarty, 2012;Oates and Dacakis, 2015;Misołek et al, 2016;Schneider et al, 2017) (Table 1). This factor may also be related to body size (Leung et al, 2018) and more feminine facial characteristics (Misołek et al, 2016). Self-performed adaptations by transgender women should be stimulated more systematically and technically correctly by voice professionals since they are not muscular adaptations that cause overload to the speech apparatus, as not all adaptations are healthy from a physiological point of view (Dacakis, 2002).…”
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