Think about all the ways you show the world who you are. How you dress, how you look, what you prefer to be called, who you spend your time with, even how you sound — they all convey your specific ...

A taxpayer-funded research project meant to combat transgender people’s “voice dysphoria” is alive and well despite President Donald Trump’s federal spending cuts. University of Cincinnati Professor ...

Transitioning can be a long and difficult process, with judgment from family and society and decisions about surgery and hormone therapy complicating everything, but it’s all worth it when you can ...

Gender-affirming voice therapy and surgery can be life-changing. Here's how it helps transgender and nonbinary people find their authentic voice. When Mattie Kimberly “Kimi” Klauser was growing up, ...

Robby Desjardins, speech language pathologist at Northern Light A.R. Gould Hospital in Presque Isle, uses a model to explain how vocal cords make sounds. Credit: Paula Brewer / The Star-Herald In a ...

Practitioners may also have backgrounds in areas like vocal performance. “Transgender vocal training, as it’s sometimes called, sprung up from a marriage of speech pathologists, singing teachers, ...