Transsexuals And Voice Change

2024 Author: Steven Freeman | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 08:15

Designer Hernán Lander started his transformation from man to woman two years ago. To feel comfortable in her own skin and become Hannah, before undergoing a sex change, the Dominican also decided to change the tone of her voice, that is, she changed it from a low tone to a higher tone.

What does this process consist of? The Colombian otolaryngologist, Antonio Ballestas tells us the steps that are followed in this surgical procedure.

What is the difference between the voice of women and men?

It is important to know that the male vocal cords move between 100 and 150 times per second that is called a fundamental frequency. It is a low voice and the female voice moves between 160 and 300 times per second that is a high voice. Hannah's vocal cords - she was born male - are longer and thicker vocal cords and therefore have a deep voice, a male voice. The idea is to take it from the frequency of 100 to 150 to a much higher frequency, in the case of it to take it to 200 or 250.

So, the female hormones that transsexuals ingest do not interfere with the type of voice?

Female hormones do not interfere with the voice. Breasts grow, hair grows, sculptures lipo, but, the voice gives them away.

How is the operation?

This is a procedure [where] there is no incision to be made in the neck made through the mouth, there is no scar left. It is an irreversible process and what is [done] is to cut the vocal cords, make them thinner, tighter, with this we transform male vocal cords into female vocal cords capable of emitting higher pitched sounds.

After surgery, what care must be followed?

This requires that the patient after surgery be in absolute voice rest, the strings have to remain still because the suture can burst when they move. After two weeks, the voice therapy process comes to find the ideal tone we want. [They are] therapies between 45 minutes and an hour. They take two to three months.

How much?

Eight thousand dollars

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