Health considerations for transgender women and remaining unknowns: a narrative review

SJ Iwamoto, J Defreyne, MS Rothman… - Therapeutic …, 2019 - journals.sagepub.com
Transgender (trans) women (TW) were assigned male at birth but have a female gender
identity or gender expression. The literature on management and health outcomes of TW …

Caring for the transgender adolescent and young adult: Current concepts of an evolving process in the 21st century

MG Agana, DE Greydanus, JA Indyk, JL Calles Jr… - Disease-a-Month, 2019 - Elsevier
The term transgender youth commonly refers to those whose gender identity, or personal
core sense of self as a particular gender, differs from their assigned sex at birth; this is often …

Outcomes of Gender‐Affirming Voice and Communication Modification for Transgender Individuals

KA Chadwick, R Coleman, K Andreadis… - The …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Objectives Transgender individuals' voices are closely related to gender identity. A primary
goal of gender‐affirming voice modification is to help individuals alter their voices to improve …

The effect of formant biofeedback on the feminization of voice in transgender women

D Kawitzky, T McAllister - Journal of Voice, 2020 - Elsevier
Differences in formant frequencies between men and women contribute to the perception of
voices as masculine or feminine. This study investigated whether visual-acoustic …

Effect of phonation on perception of femininity/masculinity in transgender and cisgender speakers

N Houle, SV Levi - Journal of Voice, 2021 - Elsevier
Many transwomen seek voice and communication therapy to support their transition from
their gender assigned at birth to their gender identity. This has led to an increased need to …

Risk of Dysphonia, Presence of Vocal Changes, and Vocal Self-Perception in Brazilian Transgender Women

JC dos Santos Oliveira, JM da Trindade Duarte… - Journal of Voice, 2024 - Elsevier
Objective To evaluate and correlate the risk of dysphonia, the presence of vocal changes
and their associated factors, and the vocal self-perception of transgender women. Method …

Perceptual evaluation of speech naturalness in speakers of varying gender identities

B Merritt, T Bent - Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing …, 2020 - pubs.asha.org
Purpose The purpose of this study was to investigate how speech naturalness relates to
masculinity–femininity and gender identification (accuracy and reaction time) for cisgender …

Prosodic differences in the voices of transgender and cisgender women: self-perception of voice-an auditory and acoustic analysis

DP Menezes, ZS de Lira, ANB de Araújo… - Journal of Voice, 2024 - Elsevier
Introduction The voice is an important parameter for identifying the speaker's gender.
Transgender people seek to adapt their bodies to gender identity, and transgender women …

Dysphonia and dysarthria in people with Parkinson's disease after subthalamic nucleus deep brain stimulation: effect of frequency modulation

ANDC Morello, BC Beber, VC Fagundes, CA Cielo… - Journal of Voice, 2020 - Elsevier
Purpose Subthalamic nucleus deep brain stimulation (STN-DBS) parameters, for example
the frequency of stimulation, seem to affect speech and voice aspects. However, this …

Acoustic measures of Brazilian transgender women's voices: a case–control study

AP Villas-Bôas, K Schwarz, AMV Fontanari… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Objective: This study aims to compare the acoustic vocal analysis results of a group of
transgender women relative to those of cisgender women. Methods: Thirty transgender …