Male to female (MtF) transgender people often feel as though they can be perceived as a woman until they begin to speak (Hancock, Krissinger, & Owen, 2011). As a result, this population is becoming more represented on speech-language pathologists’ (SLPs) caseloads in an effort to feminize their voice and communication styles. There are several aspects of voice that can impact the perceived gender, including pitch, vocal quality, resonance, and prosody. Typically a higher fundamental frequency (F0), breathiness, more forward-focused resonance, a slower rate, and a smaller pitch range help the speaker to be perceived as a female (Owen & Hancock, 2010). To date there is research that supports the use of voice therapy with MtF transgender clients (Hancock et al., 2011; Owen & Hancock, 2010). In addition to the traditional method of in-house service delivery, telepractice has become an alternative means of providing therapeutic services via videoconferencing. Benefits of telepractice include the ability to access more clients that otherwise might not be able to come in for treatment for a variety of reasons, such as location and/or disability. It has been proven to be a cost effective method that also enables clients to receive therapy in their natural environment (Theodoros, 2011). There is research available that affirms that voice therapy is just as successful over telepractice as it is when conducted in a face-to-face setting (Mashima et al., 2003). Although research does not exist regarding the delivery of transgender voice feminization therapy through videoconferencing, the following three articles investigate the areas of voice feminization therapy as well as voice therapy provided through telepractice. Hancock and her team... ... middle of paper ... ...eed for transgender voice and communication therapy and the limited number of SLPs qualified to provide that treatment. Works Cited Hancock, A. B., Krissinger, J., & Owen, K. (2011). Voice perceptions and quality of life of transgender people. Journal of Voice, 25(5), 553-558. Mashima, P. A., Birkmire-Peters, D. P., Syms, M. J., Holtel, M. R., Burgess, L. P. A., & Peters, L. J. (2003, November). Telehealth: Voice therapy using telecommunications technology. American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 12, 432-439. Owen, K., & Hancock, A. B. (2010). The role of self- and listener perceptions of femininity in voice therapy. International Journal of Transgenderism, 12, 272-284. Theodoros, D. (2011, September). Telepractice in speech-language pathology: The evidence, the challenges, and the future. Perspectives on Telepractice, 1(1), 10-21.
Nursing theory is one of the first topics taught in nursing school. Nursing theory gives the nurse a base for identifying with their patients, organizing and analyzing information collected, to assist their patient. Many patient populations present with specific issues and concerns; nursing theory aids the nurse in seeing their patients as individuals and helps to tailor care as such. Across the lifespan, people’s needs with respect to health care are constantly changing and for the members of the transgender community this is especially true (McCann & Sharek, 2015). Studies indicate that services available to the transgender community are limited at best; and for the services that are available, healthcare professionals are undereducated and at times insensitive to the needs of this population (McCann & Sharek, 2015). By examining Peplau’s Theory of Interpersonal Relationships, this paper will explore how using this theory will help the nursing professional provide quality care to members of the transgender community.
The World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) recommends that inmates be treated as individuals in the community (Reflections on the Legal Battles). After lawsuits and recommendations, prisons are developing ways to assist the inmates who request treatment of their gender dysphoria condition through name and pronoun change, access to feminine attire, estrogenic compounds, facial hair removal, and sex reassignment surgery. In order for an inmate to be granted permission to these treatments, they have to be diagnosed and recommend by a mental health professional. For that reason, keeping Gender Dysphoria as a diagnosis is important.
This source focused mainly on the health care of transgender people and the barriers they face as trans people. The source includes both personal narrative from small focus groups and statistics derived from survey answers in from the subjects in the focus group. This source addresses specifically health disparities that transgender people face. The source outlines the health issues and obstacles that transgender people face. It also highlights recommendations for how to improve health in the transgender
Seventy-three transgender children who were allowed to express their gender identity freely, forty-nine of their siblings and seventy-three non-transgender children were involved in the study. None of the transgender children had taken hormone, but they lived freely to express their gender identity. The study measured anxiety and depression levels. For depression levels all the numbers were almost all the same. Anxiety levels for all the children varied. Transgender children had higher levels of depression and anxiety than the siblings or non-transgender children, but the variables were only one or two numbers more. These transgender children were relatively happy with their lives as they were able to live with the gender identity they wanted. Letting transgender live the identity they feel comfortable can improve their mental health in the long run. (“Transgender
The depiction of transgender women characters in mainstream television has been offensive, insulting and derogatory. An article from GLADD called “Victims or Villains: Examining Ten Years of Transgender Images on Television”, examines 102 episodes and storylines on mainstream television that contained transgender characters since 2002. Of these, more than half were characterized as containing negative representations of transgender. In 2007 only 1% of television series had a recurring transgender character, which has slowly increased to 4% in 2013.
This element in their lives involves many of the determinants of health including, gender identity, sexual orientation, culture, biology and genetic endowment, social environments, and social support. On its own gender identity issues are a major deterrent within the health care system, as many transgendered individuals feel like their identity is not included in the health care they receive. This is largely due to the heteronormative categorization tendencies used in health care, as evidenced by the fact that “rarely do health questionnaires or interviews contain questions that would identify people along a transgender continuum” (Eliason, 2014), instead the options provided are generally female or male. This causes problems for transgendered individuals, like Madie, who are not able to express their identity, or feel their identity is unwelcomed and unsupported, in a health care setting. Transgender identity issues in health care also involve the determinant of biology and genetic endowment. Biology and genetic endowment described as one’s predisposition to certain diseases (Waldron, 2017a), which includes predispositions related to the sex of an individual. This can be problematic for transgendered individuals as the conditions they are at risk for due to their birth gender are in conflict with how they identify themselves, making it a difficult
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While the ruling of the case brings awareness of the existence of transgendered people, it is stigmatized by a dominant culture whose basis of the legal system protects proscribed gender identities rather than the protection of freedom of choosing multiple identities. Additionally, the court deemed that Pat Doe has a medical condition that requires her to wear women’s garments. The medical condition called Gender Identity Disorder speaks volumes about how society treats unrecognized differences when it comes to diagnosing a gender expression. The information of the court case allows you to get em...
The client is a fifty-nine year old, White, middle class, transgender female. She is unmarried and lives alone in an apartment that she owns. Cheri is currently unemployed and has just completed training to become an electrologist. She has past therapeutic experience having received treatment prior to hormone therapy and sexual reassignment.
Living with a communication disorder is a continuous journey that affects individuals of all ages
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These individuals can’t identify themselves as female or male because they feel more in between or outside of the female and male dichotomy. The study showed that these individuals took linguistic features from their original place and transformed it into something new. The impact that this study leaves on sexology is that genderqueer individuals don’t see themselves as being neither masculine nor feminine. They don’t feel like people understand them and their gender roles. Genderqueer individuals take their linguistic features and change themselves into new individuals.
The saying ‘music is universal’ speaks true when we discuss how many people, including transgender people, connect with music and use it as an emotional outlet (Nichols, 269). Music and the composing of one’s own songs can allow for one to express feelings and create an identity for themselves through their music (Nichols, 262-279 and Drake, 1-31). YouTube is an innovative way to support their desire to create their own music and be seen and heard in a genuine and respectful way (Horak, 572- 585). Music is a beneficial factor in helping one find community and self-expression (Nichols, 262). As a result, more transgender people need to be seen as public figures in order to create tolerance and a more welcoming society (Mclntyre, 19-32).
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Statistically, 0.3-0.5% of individuals in the United States (approx. 700,000 people) identify themselves as transgender and global estimates provide similar percentages (Gates, 2011). Studies conducted regarding transgender individuals show that this class of people suffer from unusually high physical, verbal, and sexual abuse, as well as discrimination in housing and employment (Patel, 2013). Patel (20...