Feminization Laryngoplasty 2005, Bologna, Italy

Lecture given in Bologna, Italy 8 April 2005 for the 19th Biennial Symposium for the former HBIGDA - Harry Benjamin Gender Dysphoria Association and now WPATH, the World Professional Association for Transgender Health. This covers my experience performing cricothyroid approximation surgery (CTA) as well as a newer procedure, the Feminization Laryngoplasty surgery (FemLar).

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• Pitch
• transgender
• vocal
• cords
• laryngology
• stroboscopy
• endoscopy
• voice
• CTA
• cricothryoid
• FemLar
• laryngoplasty

[MsMsmak]

Honestly, the post operative results don't sound female to me. I know its not what you want to hear, but ...

Its great that you're doing the research necessary to change this though. Its a big issue for blending in.

[docvox]

@MsMsmak Thanks for the feedback. To help you out with the context of the talk. I performed the first FemLar surgery in 3/2003 and this talk was given in 2005, so I had done less than a dozen patients and did not have follow up on all of them at the time. I have continued to develop the procedure, now having done about a hundred procedures. Some more current follow up is available at voicedoctor net under media, cases, pitch

[strikerk]

@docvox Well, I'd upload another video perhaps showing before and after. This doesn't really help convince anyone. :<

[docvox]

@strikerk On my voicedoctor site there are quite a few before and after voices.

[HoulMello]

so in 2 of the video examples the cords became asymmetrical.. is it a permanent result?

[missuniverse1000bc]

omg why do vocal cords look like VAGINAS!!! :O