Diana’s Little Corner in the Nutmeg State: A New Business

Friday, November 27, 2015

A New Business

There is a new business popping up around the country including here in Connecticut.

Matching voice to identity: Local transgender woman undergoes speech therapy
WDAY
By Jordan Schroeer
November 24, 2015

orhead, MN (WDAY TV) - With Caitlyn Jenner in the news nearly every day, it's been a historic year for the transgender community; however, stories of those transitioning isn't limited to Hollywood, they're happening here on the prairie.

I met with a local transgender woman to see how a transition is more than a change of hair and clothes.

Ayleah Evitt isn't preparing her voice for a choral performance.

Ayleah Evitt- Transgender Woman: "Presenting to the world too because they're going to know who you are, they're going to either not like you or accept you. One way or the other."

She's stretching her vocal cords as part of transgender speech therapy.

The program at MSUM is one of only a few nationally, started back in the early 2000s.

Here in Connecticut UConn has a voice coach for trans people, there is one other person who working with trans women to help them training their voices.

There are also surgeons who do voice surgery for trans women who want a more feminine voice. However, the surgery only raises pitch not the timbre so you will still need a voice coach to help you to achieve a more feminine voice.

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Quotes

Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.

Morality cannot be legislated, but behavior can be regulated. Judicial decrees may not change the heart, but they can restrain the heartless.

A right delayed is a right denied.Like an unchecked cancer, hate corrodes the personality and eats away its vital unity. Hate destroys a man's sense of values and his objectivity. It causes him to describe the beautiful as ugly and the ugly as beautiful, and to confuse the true with the false and the false with the true.
Martin Luther King Jr.

No one is born hating another person… People must learn to hate and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.
Nelson Mandela

We can disagree and still love each other, unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist
James Baldwin

There is a fine line between free speech and hate speech. Free speech encourages debate whereas hate speech incites violence.
Newton Lee

The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing anything.
Albert Einstein

"The point is that there are always obstacles, whether they seem insurmountable or merely bothersome. The question is not how difficult the path, but whether in your heart, you wish to undertake the journey."
Zandru's Forge

Keep your thoughts positive because your thoughts become your words. Keep your words positive because your words become your behavior. Keep your behavior positive because your behavior becomes your habits. Keep your habits positive because your habits become your values. Keep your values positive because your values become your destiny.
Mahatma Gandhi

“I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time -- when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what's true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness...
― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

You've Got To Be Carefully Taught
You've got to be taught
To hate
And fear
You've got to be taught
From year
To year
Its got to
Be drummed in your dear little ear
You've got to
Be carefully
Taught
You've got to be taught
To be
Afraid
Of people
Who's eyes are oddly made
And people who's skin is a different shade

South Pacific
Songwriters: Oscar Hammerstein II / Richard Rogers

Friday, November 27, 2015

A New Business

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