so as ive been working with my voice teacher on making my head voice not suck ass, the focus has been on pharyngeal reduction and epilaryngeal twang, raising resonance formants without pinching the vocal tract. apparently this is also the focus of vocal training for trans woman. u just have to do that shit when u voice has a fat ass
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someone on TikTok said they thought i was a former trans man who detransitioned. there is nothing wrong with that but in my case this is provably false because post HRT trans men can't smoothly blend into head voice in the manner of a non-t puberty voice, and i read they often have a dead zone where a tenor's passaggio would be due to their vocal folds outgrowing the laryngeal cartilage. so weirdly enough my voice does have more in common with that of an AMAB individual than a post HRT trans man
a t-puberty voice has significant hardening of the laryngeal cartilage which I do not have but what a non-HRT t-puberty voice and my voice share in common is large vocal fold mass in a larynx that has grown to match the size of the vocal folds, which means it is possible in both cases to achieve higher pitches without strain by training to vibrate the edges of the folds only
so what ive found out is that my singing as a beginner does sound shittier and worse than any other beginner because to get a good sound i have to train in "shedding mass" something other cis women aside from maybe dramatic mezzos don't have to do. i have the gat dang deck stacked against me. but lol at all my friends the last few years who have gently suggested in private that i give up due to being naturally untalented
@Xibanya [goes looking online for "laryngeal cartilage softener"]...
i hope my experiences as a deep voiced cis woman having to put in a shitload of effort just to make my voice sound nice by societal standards are gender affirming for any deep voiced women reading this 😂