Does your voice clash with your gender identity? If so, experts are at the ready with information and advice. Case in point: a recent foray for folx at the University of Colorado Boulder.
The school held a January 25-26 symposium for the sexually sophisticated who orate erroneously. Advertisement for the Gender Voice and Communication Training Workshop 2025 listed eleven “learning objectives.” As a sample, participants pining for talk less testicular or verbalization less vaginal were promised they’d do the following:
- Name the strengths and limitations of gender-affirming voice surgery
- Explain the role of [speech-language pathologists] in people undergoing gender-affirming voice surgery and what is involved in pre- and post-operative therapy
- Identify multiple gender-affirming target areas
- Describe methods to integrate metatherapy and counseling…
