The trans man’s guide to singing (on T and other things)

  • Introduction:

First things first: I am a trans man on HRT who’s studying to become a professional singer (not opera lmao, I’m studying modern singing) and all the information I’m providing comes from my personal experience and what my current teacher, who’s been teaching me since I started T, taught and told me during my voice change. This is directed towards people who want to go professional because, again, that’s my personal experience, but if you’re reading this because you like singing as just a hobby, most of what I’ll be talking about applies to you too. I might overexplain things because I want this whole thing to be understandable to everyone, including people who barely know what vocal cords and the diaphragm are; on the same note, I hope I don’t end up sounding condescending and if I do, just know that’s not my intention at all.
I won’t be saying anything about pre-T voice training because I never did that and giving the wrong advice when it comes to these things can lead to serious damage to people’s vocal cords and throats, so this is strictly a singing through and after a voice change post.

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Posted 1 year ago with 20 notes
#after almost a month here it is! #you won't believe how many fucking times I misspelled “vocal cords” as “vocal chords” #every fucking time I typed it actually I had to reread everything to correct the mistake fuck my life #same with “exercise” as “excercise” what a demonic word #and that's on having English as a second language #there's a small formatting error but Tumblr wouldn't let me post if I tried to fix it so yeah I was losing my mind so I gave up #trans #transgender #testosterone #trans man #ftm #transmasc #my posts
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Being a trans man will give you a unique understanding on gender oppression, because you are a man who is oppressed on the basis of gender and not rewarded (male) privilege under patriarchy. And then you kind of just have to deal with people being unable to understand or accept that because they can't comprehend a trans person not strictly fitting into the experiences or roles of cis men or cis women. They can't comprehend the concept of a man who does not have the privilege and lived experiences of cis men. You have to deal with people who will never consider you in conversations about oppression because they can only comprehend men + manhood through the lens of Super Privileged Gender Oppressor and can't accept there are types of men who exist outside of that (trans men), or they just think we're too insignificant to be considered lol.

Posted 3 hours ago with 2,684 notes
#sigh #trans