Voice Dysphoria Among The Transgender Community

Communication is a key element in everyone’s life. As human beings, our nature is to communicate and talk with others. In order to comfortably engage and interact with others, you have to be comfortable in your own skin. Confidence allows someone to voice their opinions or to even hold eye contact. However, for transgender people, this is most often than not a struggle. Social skills can be affected by a lack of confidence in their voice or appearance, and also due to a fear of, or an actual experience of prejudice or judgment from others. 

One of the main reasons that communication is harder for transgender people, is many of them often face voice dysphoria. To some, hearing their voice makes them feel more self-conscious and not want to talk in public settings at all. Similar to how some people have an adverse reaction to hearing their own voices in recordings, some individuals feel this way just from hearing their voice real-time.

Most often, they undergo voice surgeries that allow their voice pitch to match the gender they truly are. Not every transgender person is this lucky to be able to afford this surgery. This is when transgender voice training is useful and convenient for those who need help with vocal masculinization or feminization.