When we do feminizing voice surgeries, the goal is to increase the pitch right around 200 cycles per second. That can help a lot with the dysphoria with feeling like you're not sounding like you feel. The gendering is a psychologically harmful experience that isn't always even intentional when you're in the drive-through or on the phone. We make assessments based on that frequency. And on a bad day, I get misgendered. But because overall, I'm aligned and cis, I can throw that off one time. But if it's happening all day, all the time, it can wear on a person.

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