Voice Perceptions and Quality of Life of Transgender People

Hancock, Adrienne B.; Krissinger, Julianne; Owen, Kelly P.

doi:10.1016/j.jvoice.2010.07.013

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“…Despite methodological limitations, the European QOL results do not translate to U.S. settings as healthcare programs and insurance historically and presently, with some exceptions, have not covered medical gender transition (Newfield, Hart, Dibble, & Kohler, 2006). Quality of life studies in the U.S. have been biased toward samples of transgender women with greater access to resources such as employment, income and medical care (Ainsworth & Spiegel, 2010; Hancock, Krissinger, & Owen, 2011; Newfield et al, 2006). …”

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confidence: 99%

Quality-of-Life Measurement: Assessing the WHOQOL-BREF Scale in a Sample of High-HIV-Risk Transgender Women in San Francisco, California

Thompson¹,

Reisner²,

VanKim³

et al. 2015

International Journal of Transgenderism

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Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Quality-of-Life Measurement: Assessing the WHOQOL-BREF Scale in a Sample of High-HIV-Risk Transgender Women in San Francisco, California

Thompson¹,

Reisner²,

VanKim³

et al. 2015

International Journal of Transgenderism

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“…Presenting aspiring and practicing SLPs with the opportunity to advance LGBTQ cultural competency-both their own as well as their colleagues'-could help to reshape the manner in which these providers interact with their patients for the better. SLPs' ability to serve LGBTQ individuals is related to health care access and, consequently, improvements in quality of life for these individuals (Hancock, Krissinger, & Owen, 2011).…”

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Small Groups, Big Gains: Efficacy of a Tier 2 Phonological Awareness Intervention With Preschoolers With Early Literacy Deficits

Kruse

Spencer

Olszewski

et al. 2015

Am J Speech Lang Pathol

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“…This fact can be particularly observed in transsexual subjects [2,4,5]. Transsexualism is a condition in which a person believes that his or her psychological gender is incongruent with their anatomic gender [6]. In diagnostic terms, the socalled gender dysphoria is categorised as a gender identity disorder encoding transsexualism as F 64.0 within the International Classification of Diseases ICD-10.…”

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Gender-related voice problems in transsexuals — therapeutical demands

Misołek

Niebudek-Bogusz

Morawska

et al. 2015

Endokrynologia Polska

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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 voice still presents a major problem, causing difficulties in everyday life. Hormonal treatment does not influence feminisation of the larynx. In the described MTF case, the patient's low androphonic voice was perceived as a male voice. In order to feminise the patient's voice a phonosurgical procedure was performed: the length of the vibrating portion of the vocal folds was shortened by over 50% of their total length by means of suturing of the anterior part of the vocal fold. As a result of the surgical treatment the pitch of voice was raised considerably, with F0 of spoken voice increased from 109 Hz to 209 Hz. The voice range also changed towards female tones, from 59-146 Hz to 148-343 Hz. Pitch elevation positively influenced the patient's subjective voice assessment: total score of the Voice Handicap Index (VHI) improved from 99 to 19 points, and the score of its emotional sub-scale: 39 and 2 points, respectively. The described case of a surgical male-to-female voice change presents one of the dilemmas faced by modern medicine. StreszczeniePrzedstawiono przypadek pacjentki transseksualnej, u której po raz pierwszy w Polsce przeprowadzono zabieg chirurgiczny zmiany głosu z męskiego na żeński. Głos ludzki -drugorzędowa cecha płciowa -jest odzwierciedleniem działania hormonów i psychiki. Fakt ten nabiera szczególnego znaczenia w transseksualizmie, zaburzeniu polegającym na niezgodności płci biologicznej z płcią psychiczną. Dla wielu osób transseksualnych, szczególne w postaci transseksualizmu M/K (mężczyzna/kobieta) po hormonalnej i chirurgicznej zmianie płci biologicznej ważnym problemem nastręczającym trudności w życiu codziennym pozostaje głos, gdyż leczenie hormonalne nie wpły-wa na feminizację krtani -aparatu głosowego. W opisywanym przypadku niski androfoniczny głos pacjentki był percepowany przez otoczenie jako męski. W celu feminizacji głosu wykonano leczenie fonochirurgiczne: skrócono fałdy głosowe o ponad 50% ich długości poprzez założenie szwów zespalających w ½ przedniej części głośni. W wyniku zabiegu podwyższono znacząco głos: przedoperacyjna częstotliwość głosu mówionego wyraźnie przesunęła się po operacji w górę z wartości 109 Hz do 209 Hz. Zakres głosu także zmienił się w kierunku tonów żeńskich z 59-146 Hz do 148-343 Hz. Zmiana wysokości głosu u pacjentki wpłynęła pozytywnie na jej subiektywną ocenę głosu: wynik kwestionariusza VHI (Voice Handicap Index) poprawił się z 99 pkt -przed operacją do 19 pkt -po operacji. Na poprawę jakości życia wskazuje także spadek problemów emocjo...

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Voice Perceptions and Quality of Life of Transgender People

Cited by 130 publications

References 22 publications

Quality-of-Life Measurement: Assessing the WHOQOL-BREF Scale in a Sample of High-HIV-Risk Transgender Women in San Francisco, California

Quality-of-Life Measurement: Assessing the WHOQOL-BREF Scale in a Sample of High-HIV-Risk Transgender Women in San Francisco, California

Small Groups, Big Gains: Efficacy of a Tier 2 Phonological Awareness Intervention With Preschoolers With Early Literacy Deficits

Gender-related voice problems in transsexuals — therapeutical demands

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