Many of us M2F Transgenders have real concerns about our female speaking
voices. And we have good reason for this. Most cisgender males speak
in a pitch approximately one octave lower than the average cisgender
female. This means that for most people it is easy for people to
identify male speech from female speech from pitch alone. However,
there is an area of androgynous overlap where both cisgender males and
females speak in the same pitch range. This is the range that I have
been trying to master speaking in, learning all the appropriate feminine
speech patterns to have my voice identified as female when there is no
other social clue to guide a listener.
I am making serious progress on
improving my self image! That whole, estrogen and anti-testosterone
thing with the meds and all has helped. But what has helped even more,
is actually freeing myself from my own self imposed restrictions. Like,
it's only okay to be myself around these people or in these situations,
and I really can't let those in these other places know the truth about
me. Being able to give myself the freedom to be myself, and to trust
that other people are actually good decent humans that really only want
to experience connections with others, has been absolutely life
changing. 
Moreover, I suspected that female to male transgender youth would – at
least to some extent – find some relief from the fact that female
assigned persons are given more freedom as regards gender expressions.
Society does – in general – accept that a woman wear more "masculine"
outfits, like for instance jeans, boots and a leather jacket. The
opposite is not true for those assigned male.
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