Transgender Voice

Patients who elect to proceed with gender reassignment (male to female or female to male) do not present as voice disorders per se. Yet, these patients need to alter voice production to allow the speaking voice to be successfully perceived as the desired gender. Thus, these patients can benefit from behavioral therapy and occasionally, phonosurgery. The transgendered voice patients will seek goals to modify vocal pitch, quality, and prosody in voice, while making simultaneous adjustments in speech articulation and language patterns to create and maintain a communication style consistent with the desired gender.