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
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    8 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.