I can only tell you how it went for me, I had trachea shave and vocal cord approximation which tightens the vocal cords resulting in a more feminine voice. My voice has not been questioned since I underwent the surgery. I am reffered to a miss or mrs on the phone, which never happened before the surgery.

As far as losing my voice, all I had was a rough voice, gravelly in sound for 3 weeks or so, as the throat was sore and swollen, once that settled down my voice was totally transormed. I was signed off voice therapy as soon as my therapist heard my voice post op.

The scar is almost dissapeared now, it takes about a year, slightly more in some cases.

It would be wrong for me to either encourage or discourage you to undergo the voice surgery, it has to be a personal decision.

What I would say is treat vocal cords or trachea shave surgery like any surgery procedure, talk to the surgeon a lot about how the procedure will be carried out, also see if you can get references from recent patients.

Please accept my sincerest best wishes with your transition.

xx

Stephanie

I had not read any of Alexandra’s blog, and now did go there from your link.
Haggart did somewhere ring a bell with me, but for the rest I guess I missed the whole commotion.
Alexandra is right as I too think this is a guy with a problem. I guess we can see this as a good example of the pain and hurt that is put onto people by the way most of society does not accept people for who and what they are, which is for a very large part induced by organised religion.
I left my thoughts.

I hope I will live to see the day where people will be accepted and respected for who they are. Where people are not outcasts for not adhering to the labels that were put on them at birth.
Where love is simply accepted as normal and beatifull; no matter where this love is between people of the opposite sex, same sex, corrected sex or anything in between; as long as the partners are consenting adults.

Angela

I hope others discover what a rare gem this amazing beauty is!

1. Kiva Says:
January 8th, 2009 at 7:50 pm

“There are no levels or degrees in equality or inequality, freedom or not being free. ”

But HRC is against equal rights for transgender people — if they can get ENDA passed for gays and lesbians.

Why, if you care about transgender issues, would you want to support HRC?

Why wouldn’t you assume it is trans-rights activists who are removing the HRC stickers?
2. xenotica Says:
January 8th, 2009 at 8:59 pm edit

Some good points Kiva. I’m glad you bring them up. Thank You for your comments.

There could be some Trans person doing that. But I tend to doubt it based on some prior experiences. I Also think maybe you missed the overall point of what I am saying. Notice I never mention anything about the LGBT or trans community at all in this commentary. It is not directly about that. It is about someone infringing on MY freedom of speech in expressing the right to Equality. The fact that it was and HRC sticker on my car has nothing to do with what I am trying to convey here.

But in the spirit of this blog here is what I think. The HRC not supporting trans issues is not entirely true. If they actually came out and stated that I would probably be signing a different tune. I do have hope. I am optimistic that the HRC will improve. In fact the HRC appears to be making move in a positive direction. They have been openly supporting the trans community.

I know Trans people that work for or have worked for the HRC and still do work with the HRC. The fact that the HRC pulled Trans support at the last minute from the bill was pretty damn shifty. I agree. That was just wrong and a bad mistake.

But I do care and support everyone fighting for LGBT rights and equality. Should I pull my support for the gay community because the HRC pulled support for the trans community? NO. As a lesbian woman why would I do that? Why further infect that rift. I think the anti-HRC trans activists would be better served trying to work with the HRC and other trans activist that are working with the HRC rather than fighting them. I know a few major trans activists that are doing just that in fact.

As someone who has already stated that I support the entire LGBT community, I am not going to jump on the he-said she-said bandwagon. There is enough infighting in every facet of the LGBT community. There is tons of it just in the trans community itself.

I believe we ALL need to work together to get past these issues. The trans community still has a long way to go, but we are getting there. The key to understanding and broader support and acceptance is EDUCATION and COOPERATION.