‘Trans voice therapy allowed my dad to finally hear the real me’

Trans dysphoria is the mental and emotional anguish caused by your voice and gender identity not aligning (Picture: Metro/Getty Images) Opal always hated the sound of her voice. Speaking on the phone, hailing a cab or ordering a drink – all of it was nerve-wracking. But there was just one person that she wanted to hear her after coming out as trans – her father, who was suffering from hearing loss. So Opal spent weeks doing vocal warm-ups, reading menus aloud and speaking in character voices to move her pitch to a range he could hear. ‘To be able to talk to my dad, in public, and not have to choose between being heard and being gendered correctly? ‘That made all the practice it took to get a voice I love worth it,’ she tells Metro. Opal did this by undergoing trans voice training five year