alright gang, we need another win over the news mega this week! keep those numbers up and keep being trans as hell
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That’s awesome! I’m very happy for you.
I would like to start training my voice more. The thing is I’ve always been decent at modulating my voice in general and can do a semi-decent feminine voice as it is, but it’s so hard for me to stick to that. My natural voice is already rather low and masculine and I find myself just reverting to it subconsciously unless I’m constantly thinking about shifting it as I speak. But I guess that’s what the whole “training” part is for lol.
I remember a couple months ago I went on a first date with a woman and beforehand I convinced myself I was going to try out my feminine voice for the date. She knew I was trans and all. So, it’s not like I was trying to hide that. Just thought it would be a fun experiment as we hadn’t actually talked prior, just texted. I immediately subconsciously reverted to my normal voice upon meeting her. So that experiment failed. Though it might have been a hard ruse to keep up with anyway had we went on any dates afterwards, which we unfortunately did not–though we had plans to, our schedules just never aligned properly and things fizzled out.
Anyway, happy for you and you’ve provided me inspiration to make a more concerted effort to train my voice too :)
It takes a long time for it to become habit. For real. It was really reassuring for me when I met a transfem who helps trans folks voice train, and she really emphasized that this is a long term habit of something so personal as our voice, and that really takes time to develop into a place where we want it. Be patient, I bet you’re fucking killing it, honestly.
You could have always switched later. :P Like, no one I work with ever says anything despite me shifting between accidentally doing old voice (typically if really tired and/or congested), basically the voice I’m trying to do for now (idk what I want long-term, so relatively minimal changes from old voice), and accidentally switching to a customer-service-esque voice (which for some reason is really high pitched). I did once have a child to laugh at the contrast of me suddenly doing customer-service-voice with the very deep voice of the person I was responding too. And its not like I’m out at work.