Edit: I’m a little worried I may have misused the word “alleviate”, which I thought means “to ease a little bit in a non permanent way”. Sorry if I accidentally made you all confused. xD

I wrote this in another community the other day:

As to why I insist on buying female centric vinyls, I’m not quite sure, but it could have something to do with my gender dysphoria. I believe the psychological mechanism is too complex for me to even begin to understand, but I think I listen to what I want to become or what I would have wanted to be in the first place, gender-wise (voice, body, clothing, etc.). Maybe vinyl, being an older medium, brings me back to and helps me imagine a childhood that I wish I could have had? I just spitballing here though…

Here is the original post: https://piefed.blahaj.zone/post/821181/comment/4976422#comment_4977719

Can you relate? Is there music that alleviates your dysphoria?

  • Berengaria_of_NavarreEnglish
    8·
    13 days ago

    Music that is within my Vocal range, but only just within my vocal range. That way I can sing along with it and sound feminine.

    • printf("%s", name);@piefed.blahaj.zoneOPEnglish
      2·
      13 days ago

      Have you trained your voice to reach/settle an octave higher? Only asking because I haven’t done HRT or voice training, and hearing myself sing an octave lower than my favorite female artists is not very inspiring. 😭 I do love to sing though, so I try to suppress such feelings with song xD

      What do you sing btw? :D

      • Berengaria_of_NavarreEnglish
        3·
        13 days ago

        Nope, I only started HRT a couple of months ago to see if it was for me (it is but I need to delay my actual start for mostly unrelated medical reasons). I’ve not started actual voice training, I’m just pretty good at imitation. Which works great for singing but not as much for conversation.

        I can actually pull off a decently feminine voice but it is always a character voice with a strong regional British accent. My own voice is much closer to RP English with a slight hint of BBC Scotland and some regional vocabulary from various places. So suddenly sounding like I’m from Larne, Birmingham, or Glasgow would be even more jarring than showing up speaking in a female voice.

        At the moment I’m singing along to glory box by portishead , but I can’t do that for long. My goal is to sing like Eivør, but that’s a very long term goal.

      • WalrusDragonOnABike [they/them]@reddthat.comEnglish
        2·
        13 days ago

        Not person you replied to, but I’ve long enjoyed singing along with high pitched women. Always thought it was fun trying to hit some of the absurd highs you sometimes find from Hatsune Miku, for example. It doesn’t sound good when I reach those notes, but at least the pitch ain’t bad. I don’t think that was the result of any intentional voice training (I’m not a singer and it would be another decade until my egg started cracking).

        But yeah, singing along on-octave to female singers is something I like to do for dysphoria reasons. I’ve sometimes started trying to up-octave male singers as a way to practice more than just pure imitation, but I’m that takes more effort and usual I’m just chillin when listening to music. Also I listen to lots of music by trans creators.

        • printf("%s", name);@piefed.blahaj.zoneOPEnglish
          1·
          13 days ago

          Sic! Also, +1 for Hatsune Miku! :D

          Honest question, but feel free to tell me to read up on my own: does HRT highten the voice pitch, change the timber or affect voice in any other way without voice training? Also, if the voice and/or vocal cords are in fact affected, does the “typical” male falsetto (or its range) transition into a more “typical” female like head voice? 🤔

          • WalrusDragonOnABike [they/them]@reddthat.comEnglish
            2·
            13 days ago

            I don’t know too much about voice training tbh. I still sound like a guy and haven’t really tried to voice train.

            But estrogen does nothing to your voice. High T elongates the vocal chords, but the opposite doesn’t happen unfortunately.