Was just casually checking out some videos from this voice coach lady... when suddenly I find out she's trans too! Kinda makes me feel inspired, with progress like that.

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[–] Kayel@aussie.zone 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Remember when chapo trap house Lemmy banned trans people from the instance for being transphobic for not aligning with their narrow view of what it is to be trans?

I do.

[–] ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm not sure whether that was meta commentary on my reply, or a reply to the wrong person, but either way, I'm not sure I understand how it connects to my comment

[–] Kayel@aussie.zone 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Hexbear blew itself up for rejecting elements of our own community. I think its worth meditating on the result of expecting others to have the same views as you about living trans.

Let's be nice to each other and be supporting of the experience whether we see cishet woman for voice or choose not to.

We have to fight transphobia ever day. But, please, not against each other.

[–] CurseBunny@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The original comment seemed more inquisitive and confused than judgemental or expectant. The best way to learn about and appreciate other perspectives is to ask questions, no?

[–] Kayel@aussie.zone 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I believe we are all protective of the trans community in our own way. Sometimes overprotective.

Safe travels comrade.

[–] CurseBunny@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 year ago

Trust me, I understand your caution. Safe travels!

[–] ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think you may have misunderstood my response. I was expressing surprise at the idea of a cishet woman offering trans voice training, because it's not something I've encountered before. There was no gatekeeping involved.

[–] hoyland@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Out of curiosity, is most of your exposure to people doing voice training for trans folks online?

My default assumption would be most providers are cis, but I have approximately zero exposure to online voice resources and my limited exposure to IRL professionals has been entirely cis people. (A quick google does not tell me whether the authors of The Voice Book for Trans and Non-Binary People are cis, which seems to be the "modern" book rec.)

[–] ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 year ago

Out of curiosity, is most of your exposure to people doing voice training for trans folks online?

Yeah, exactly. I mean, I know there are speech pathologists etc out there who do speech work etc, but in the context of "voice training" the first thing I think of is trans voice training.