ABSTRACT
Trans people, mainly male-to-female reassigning people, often undertake literal voice coaching to develop a voice that matches a reassigned body. But, just like all men and women, trans people will go through a process of social voice coaching reflecting a lifetime of gendered conditioning from self and others. Trans people rarely see themselves as actually having been both heteronormative genders, but will often allude to experiences deriving from others' perceptions of them when they were pre-transition. The Transstudy seemed to become a hotbed of discussion on the subject of identity versus subjectivity. Some social constructionist trans theorists have suggested that gender subjectivity is an ongoing process of nurture rather than natally given or reassigned nature. Essentialist fixing of identity can also happen after transition, for instance in the application of labels of transitioned subjectivity.
