Does taking estrogen make your voice higher?

Oestrogen hormone therapy given to people transitioning into female will not have any effect on the vocal cords or the vocal tract. This can sometimes be disappointing news to some transgender females because they really hope (and understandably so) that it would help to make their voice higher or a bit lighter.

Does female hormone therapy change your voice?

While voice deepening sought by transgender men can typically be achieved by masculinizing hormone therapy, feminizing hormone therapy doesn’t have the same impact on transgender women’s voices. Anti-androgens and estrogens have no effect on the voice. Voice feminizing therapy isn’t right for all transgender women.

Can you surgically change your voice?

Your voice can be altered surgically so that it no longer makes low pitched sounds. This is called voice feminization surgery or feminization laryngoplasty. During voice feminization surgery, the voice box is made smaller and the vocal cords are shortened. Trans women sometimes undergo this procedure.

Is there a way to make your voice higher?

One simple exercise you can do is yawning. This will relax your throat and all those small details that determine your voice pitch. And remember, the more open your mouth is, the higher your voice will go.

Can you deepen your voice with surgery?

Vocal Problem: High pitch Thyroplasty (vocal cord surgery or pitch lowering surgery)for lowering of vocal pitch is an out patient surgical procedure. It involves removing a strip of cartilage from the larynx (voice box). This then allows the vocal cords to become less taught, therefore lowering the pitch.

Is there a surgery to make your voice higher?

What is voice feminization surgery? Voice feminization surgery is a procedure to raise the pitch of your voice or make it sound higher. Surgery changes the length, size or tightness of your vocal cords. Your vocal cords (also called vocal folds) are bands of soft tissue in your larynx (voice box).

Can surgery make my voice deeper?

Consider Medialized Laryngoplasty Considered a common FTM vocal surgery, this procedure aims to thicken the vocal cords with silicone rubber implants. This causes a deeper tone to develop, hence allowing you to produce a deeper, more masculine voice.