Gender-related voice problems in transsexuals - therapeutical demands.

Gender-related voice problems in transsexuals - therapeutical demands. Endokrynol Pol. 2016 Jul 8; Authors: Misołek M, Niebudek-Bogusz E, Morawska J, Orecka B, Ścierski W, Lisowska G 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. 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, voice still presents a major problem causing difficulties in everyday life. Hormonal treatment does not influence feminization of the larynx. In the described MFT case, the patient's low androphonic voice was perceived as male voice. In order to feminize 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 vocal fold. As a result of the surgical treatment the pitch of voice was raised considerably, with F0 of spoken voice 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 a...
Source: Endokrynologia Polska - Category: Endocrinology Authors: Tags: Endokrynol Pol Source Type: research