Voice Feminization Surgery

No matter where you are in the gender spectrum, the key to communication style is the right combination of voice that sounds natural and true to you. A lot of gender folks dress very elaborately and look like a female deity….till they utter a word.  Despite of the grace and sultry physique, they revert into construction workers and drivers.  The curves accentuated with dresses may make you look like a woman…but it is the FEMALE voice that makes you a real woman.

Voice feminization surgery is changing one’s voice to a female, and it is for those who are ohysically built as a male and also has a deep male voice, but whose acyual sexual identity is a female.  This surgery therefore, are for those who have experienced abnormal hormone functions as a child and got affected with adrogenital syndrome or androphonia, or through the side effect of the hormone treatment for aplastic anemia.

The common male voice frequency is approximately 100-150 Hz and for females it is approximately 200-250 Hz.  The reason why the male voice tone is lower than females is because the males vocal cord is bigger and longer than the females.  Therefore, this treatment makes this vocal cord shorter and thinner on the basis of the three factors.

 The new method of voice feminization surgery, called "Vocal Fold Shortening and Advancement of Anterior Commissure," is the world's first treatment that does not incise the skin and get the same result of modifying the vocal cord to a female shape using an endoscope.

This treatment which was developed by the Yeson Voice Center was presented at the Voice Foundation Association in The United States on May 29, 2007.  This VFSAAS differs from the previous methods in that it leaves less damage on the vocal cord tissue and incision is not required proving this is the best physiological method in increasing one's vocal pitch.

Voice pitch is determined by the size and length of the vocal fold.  To help you understand better, it is the same logic with a musical instrument, guitar.  Thick and long string makes a low pitch, thin and short makes a high pitch.  Male and female vocal fold sizes are different, male's is thick and long while female's is thin and short.  Vocal Fold Shortening and Advancement of Anterior Commissure was developed in Yeson Voice Center.  The surgical procedure is dissecting the anterior 1/3 portion of the vocal fold membrane, then it makes the high voice tone.