How is Voice Feminization done? With an Amazing Before & After!
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- Опубліковано 28 лип 2024
- It has been said that the tongue can paint what the eyes cannot see. This beautiful expression succinctly conveys the power of our voices. With our voices we communicate, alert, share, query, express, and emote. We can sing songs and spin tales. But, the stories we tell involve much more than the words we speak.
How we speak also conveys a tremendous amount of information. Our accent, volume, dialect, and emotion add depth and background to our stories. The same words can be spoken with underlying fear, love, irony, sincerity, surprise, or delight.
Our voices express our confidence, emotional status, and even our gender. When our voices don’t fit the words we speak, our emotional state, or our gender it can be discomforting to both the speaker and the listener. Several vocal characteristics go into having a gender consistent voice, and one of these is the pitch.
Men tend to have voices at a lower pitch than those of women. However, fortunately, we have a very effective way to make sure that the voice matches the gender. This is Voice Feminization Surgery.
There are several techniques I've used over the years. One is cricothyroid approximation (CTA) where the vocal cords are stretched to raise the pitch. Though this procedure can be effective, the results may be short lived and the appearance of the Adam's apple is often increased in the procedure. (Not what we want!) Also, an incision on the neck is required to do this procedure.
More commonly now we use a modified Wendler Glottoplasty. This surgery is done through the mouth. The vocal cords are seen through a microscope and the front 35% are sewn together after being prepared with a laser and microsurgical instruments. After the vocal cords heal the voice should be significantly higher. Most patients who have this procedure note that they are typically gendered correctly on the telephone and their voices are very feminine even without effort (such as when awakening from sleep, coughing, or laughing).
The procedure takes about one hour and requires no overnight stay in the hospital.
Voice Feminization Surgery has become a very popular way to make sure that ones voice matches their gender and self. This improves self confidence and quality of life.
We at TSC are very proud to help people live the best lives they can. Voice Feminization is one important part of that.
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I had glottoplasty here in the UK back in January this year under the careful hands of Chadwan Al Yaghchi. It's been 10 months now and I can honestly say the surgery has changed my life in such a positive way. My resting pitch is much higher now, I never get misgendered on the phone and I'm finally getting back to singing again, albeit in a higher range now. Complete voice rest is an absolute must in the first few weeks but those weeks of silence are worth the elation afterwards.
Wonderful to hear!
I’m a singer as well and I‘ve wanted to get this procedure. How has it affected your ability to sing?
@@jaimefillingim2293 well obviously everyone is different but for me the results have been great in terms of my range increase. I used to have a 3 octave range from F2 up to F5, at a very hard push I could get a G5 sometimes. Since the surgery my voice is now a D3 at its lowest and a C#6 (checked just 2 days ago) at its very highest with an 8 semitone increase, so yeah, I'm able to reach notes that I've never been able to reach before.
In terms of singing though, this is more of a mental thing since my brain is still programmed to sing the way it used to for all those years before. I'm probably going to need some singing lessons in order to sing in a way I've never been able to sing before using notes I haven't had access to since my early teens but I'm confident it will work out ok. I'm only just over 11 months since I had my surgery so I'm not expecting miracles this early on in recovery with relation to being able to sing again.
In terms of voice, there are days when it isn't the best, like first thing in the morning and it can fluctuate in pitch throughout the day. My lowest pitch for speaking can average about 180hz and my high end average can be around 280/290hz sometimes but normally I'm around the 220-230hz mark. When you consider my low end before surgery could be as low as 135hz I'm not really bothered about throwing in some low notes here and there.
Obviously as mentioned before, I didn't have my surgery with Dr Spiegel but the technique is similar. I had the traditional glottoplasty with the added scaring along both sides of the vocal cords to add the extra bit of tightness. The aftercare immediately after waking from surgery is critical though. No coughing/clearing your throat, no sneezing and no whispering for at least a week. If you're doing something that causes any sort of noise to come out of your mouth you risk hindering your recovery and the outcome from it. Once you do start speaking for the first time your voice will be very weak, sound quite hoarse and will sound much higher than you might expect, this is normal and it will settle in the coming weeks/months. People who I'd meet for the first time would gender me as female but would question why my voice sounded so hoarse. I'd just tell them I'd got a touch of laryngitis because that's what it sounds like during the first stages of recovery. Hope you manage to follow through with getting surgery, it's literally changed my life!
I appreciate these words of encouragement, Trucker. I had this procedure done by Dr Spiegel today and am focusing on the end goal so I can stay silent during recovery. 😊
@alexianunez5453 congratulations on the surgery. I'm almost 15 months post op now and it's still the best decision I made. Just focus on the recovery now and don't get too anxious in the early stages of using your voice. It's going to be weak and tiring at first, it'll sound hoarse too but all that goes away in time.
You record in HDR to preserve your forehead shine?
I kid, you’re awesome.
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OMG I WANT IT
Come see us! Give our office a call at 617-566-3223 or email info@drspiegel.com and our team can get you set up with an in-person or virtual consultation.
Interesting. I wasn't aware this is possible. Out of curiosity, can you do the opposite as well? I mean to turn a guy's voice sound low pitched and deeper.
We do! Give our office a call at 617-566-3223 or email info@drspiegel.com and one of our team members can give you more information.
Out of curiosity Is it possible for a guy with a low pitch voice to sound higher pitched? more like of a male voice if you know what I mean
Great question! It's absolutely possible. Give our office a call at 617-566-3223 or email info@drspiegel.com and our team will set up a consult for you!
Having mine done in about a month with Doctor Mirza close
Wishing you the best of luck!
I’d love to have the surgery ❤
We'd love to have you! Give our office a call at 617-566-3223 or email us at info@drspiegel.com and one of our team members would love to set up a consult for you. We do them in person or virtually!
Hello Doc, I am so interested with this surgery. How much should I spent on this to undergo?
Hello! Give our office a call at 617-566-3223 or email info@drspiegel.com and one of our team members will be happy to go through pricing with you.
Can cisgender men take this surgery?
Absolutely! Give our office a call at 617-566-3223 or email us at info@drspiegel.com and one of our team members can answer any questions you may have.
How much is V.F.S out of pocket
VFS starts around $10,500, but you can contact our office at 617-566-3223 or email info@drspiegel.com for more info!
@@thespiegelcenter well, there goes any hopes for that operation. the voice might be important, but so are so many other things. Due to a long life of dysphoria and the lack of doing anything about it, most people wont have the steady income to actually pay that, we are talking people who have lived their life with a handicap, you can't expect them to be able to cough that much out of their pocket.
if it truely is that expensive to do the procedure, you should consider making it possible for people to pay it off month by month over a period of 10 years, for it to be affordable for them. Otherwise your surgeons probably wont get much experience but cleaning the operation table for dust.
@@gargoyled_drake I definitely understand the difficulties of financials for surgeries. To help with this, we are in-network with Harvard Pilgrim insurance and work with CareCredit, among other options.
You don’t mention anything about a singing voice
Have a specifi question on it? I'm happy to make a video addressing this!
can biological women get voice lift surgery???
Absolutely! Give our office a call at 617-566-3223 or email info@drspiegel.com and one of our team members will be happy to give you more info!