#transmasc singing

[transmascpolls]

Transmascs who sing*: what is your vocal range?

Soprano

Mezzo-Soprano (on T)

Mezzo-Soprano (not on T)

Tenor (on T)

Tenor (not on T)

Baritone (on T)

Baritone (not on T)

Bass (on T)

Bass (not on T)

My vocal range includes multiple of the above

Unsure/My range is currently changing

Don't sing / not transmasc / Results

Voting ended onDec 14, 2025

*In this case, I mean if you sing regularly as a hobby, or do choir/musical theater, or you're a vocalist. If you think you might qualify, you absolutely do.

This poll is originally from an anonymous submission, but tumblr messed up the formatting of the ask so much that I had to make a separate post for it.

[caitrose]

It’s super wild to listen to songs I haven’t played in a long while cus there’s a lot of songs like Disenchanted MCR or Good Riddance Green Day that I used to sing a lot and I REALLY REALLY wanted to sound like that. It makes sense, for men those songs are very high but for women they’re very firmly in the low alto range and basically never go too low for a woman with a decently low range to hit. I used to put on this really weird almost nasally voice singing to these songs trying to replicate these guys voices cus I wanted to sound like them

I don’t think I realized it at the time but yeah i wanted to sound like Billie Joe Armstrong so SO bad lmao. Singing those songs after I’ve been on T for a year is a trip cus before I could hit all those notes but I was also doing something weird to my voice, I was forcing my low register forward to get that raspy slightly nasal quality that those guys all have. Now I can hit all those notes easily but that forward tone still is kinda hard to do

It’s cool how as a vocalist I keep learning stuff about my new voice ^-^

[caitrose]

Ok.

So.

[context, I am transmasc and have been a singer since childhood. There was some inexplicable property to my voice where for years I absolutely could not stand listening to it, even when others would tell me it was a good recording. It felt screechy, and a tiny bit out of tune to me. I have recently identified this feeling as dysphoria. I’ve been taking T for a while and recently my voice dropped significantly and I’m having to relearn how to hit high notes now that I need to flip into my head/quasi-falsetto range to do it.]

Something weird about relearning how to sing high is… I think I was maybe actually never doing it with correct technique, even when I was singing a high C as a soprano 1… and I was maybe just kind of forcing it bc I could? I’ve always been able to push my belt and my chest register very high, so the idea that I was always pushing my highest notes out in a way that both didn’t sound ideal and was probably not the healthiest isn’t out of the question.

This is to say whatever weird quality that I absolutely could not stand about my high voice that nobody else really minded too much, whatever it was about it that was nails on a chalkboard to me, is basically gone? My high voice has a really airy fluteish quality to it now (when I can get it to come out right which I’m working on) and I don’t hate the way it sounds anymore. It’s thinner but sounds better, more clear and in tune. I think it might just be because since it’s so difficult to hit those notes now I’m being forced to sing them with proper support and technique, and they just sound better now.

Huh. Weird.