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From BBC3 looks like some of it at least is filmed in the US. Some young transwomen strut their stuff on the beach and so on. Why do they all have such deep voices?
Transgender looking for love
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Really pretty too
Hopefully dressed like that and trolling, they are post op. Nothing will get you beat up faster than to present as a woman and then be found to still have tackle. I have worn a bikini in a very remote area but it bothered me so much that I just did it once or twice. Now days it is burkini for me. It has a flared top that covers my nonexistent hips.
I took voice training in 2005 at $60/hour for a half dozen sessions, and it was worth every penny. They could at least eliminate the vocal frying. A little more upspeak would help them too, though now days many women are trying to eliminate that.
Boys just wanna have sex?
Odd clip. Something very dated about it. That said in the dark ages I didn't date or want to date pre-op but now teenagers are transitioning very young while waiting until 16 - 18 for surgery so I guess a whole new social etiquette will be developing.
Rhona McCloud
Me, too.
I was listening to Caitlin the other night, and the same thought crossed my mind. She'd spent all this time and money to look really good ...especially for her age. Then she opened her mouth and destroyed everything!
It's so unnecessary. It takes some training, some application of skill, some knowledge. After a while it becomes the natural way of speaking. But, one has to relearn to speak to become what you are ... or at least to present oneself appropriately.
Then again, I'm old. But that's ok, because I'm opinionated, too!
Red MacDonald
Even all her money won't buy a voice
There are iffy surgeries out there for pitch and all that. While learning, it is very hard to be a public speaker, her bread and butter, especially if one wants to raise pitch and all that. Some rare post-puberty folks just pick it up, easy peesy but most can't. It took me 5 years before it became comfortably automatic as I had to do an octave raise to the standard 200Hz pitch voice teachers shoot for. And yes my voice was pretty richly male *sigh*. And then one still has to learn intonation.
Anyway, voice to me is the great equalizer for most M->F transwomen (post-puberty).
Now now
Voice therapy is unpleasant as it is physical therapy for the throat. Nobody likes physical therapy but no 'pain' no gain.
For some people it just is not physically possible and for others they just don't have the ear to mouth coordination for sounds.
But for all those who can, it is no doubt worthwhile if one keeps an eye on the prize and not complain about things such as muscle tightness in the throat.