Transition: 2001-2004. Fully stealth since 2002 (had sex reassignment surgery & changed all of my documents). My last transition procedure was voice feminization surgery.

  • hddsx@lemmy.ca
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    19 days ago

    What the fuck is voice feminization surgery? That sounds scary af. Do they literally have to cut into your throat?

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      19 days ago

      I think they go through your mouth, no cutting. I think they just have to like do something to shorten the length of your vocal cords because the shorter they are the higher pitch they’ll create.

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          19 days ago

          the back part sort of is, but you can feel the area where the vocal chords are, it’s the hard bit roughly where your chin meets the neck

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      19 days ago

      It’s a surgery that raises your pitch. There are multiple methods for this. Mine was something called Vocal Fold Shortening and Retrodisplacement of the Anterior Commissure. Basically they do this: The unique concept of Yeson‘s VFSRAC surgery is that the most advanced surgical technique is used which perfectly modifies the features of male vocal folds into those of female vocal folds. This is achieved without the necessity of a skin incision by endoscopically removing 1/3 of the vocal fold membrane and internal tissue, and then suturing the new structures tight with permanent suture material using some of the world‘s finest micro endoskopic instruments.

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        19 days ago

        Thank you for the explanation. It sounds a lot less frightening after.