Voice and Communication Therapy (VCT)

BOOKS

Mills, M. and Pert, S. (2023). Working with Trans Voice: A Guide to Support and Inspire New, Developing and Established Practitioners. Routledge. https://www.routledge.com/Working-With-Trans-Voice-A-Guide-to-Support-and-Inspire-New-and-Developing/Mills-Pert/p/book/9781032012605

Mills, M., and Stoneham, G. (2021). Voice and Communication Therapy with Trans and Non-Binary People: sharing the Clinical Space. Jessica Kingsley. https://uk.jkp.com/products/voice-and-communication-therapy-with-trans-and-nonbinary-people

Mills, M., Stoneham, G., Robinson, P., & Hotchkiss, M. (2017). The Voice Book for Trans and Non Binary People: A Practical Guide to Creating and Sustaining Authentic Voice and Communication. Jessica Kingsley Publishers. https://uk.jkp.com/products/the-voice-book-for-trans-and-nonbinary-people

TELEVISION and RADIO PROGRAMMES ON DEMAND

Learn more about trans issues
BBC's Transgender: A collection of programmes and clips looking at transgender issues

'I'm a transgender woman - ask me your invasive questions'
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/health-38652326

Should the NHS pay for transgender fertility treatment?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/health-46634595

The couple still together after gender reassignment
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-england-bristol-46074037

My husband is transgender and we're still happy
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/health-40531620

A Change of Sex
Groundbreaking BBC series that follows Julia Grant’s life as a transgender person, from her first year living as a woman to her gender reassignment surgery and beyond.
This series originally screened on BBC2 in 1979.
The attitudes of many people, including the professionals is shocking from today's perspective.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/p097xwkf/a-change-of-sex

Sounds Like She
Close your eyes and listen - can you hear the difference between a male voice and a female one? Usually but not always. And what is the difference? Gender transition is more and more in the public view, with the emphasis on the body - but what about the voice? The voice is invisible and most of us think little about how we make it and what it reveals about us.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08hr729

RESEARCH PAPERS and ARTICLES BY THEME

Are humans binary?

Heggie, V. (2015). Nature and sex redefined - we have never been binary. The Guardian, Thursday 19th February 2015. https://www.theguardian.com/science/the-h-word/2015/feb/19/nature-sex-redefined-we-have-never-been-binary

Commissioning of services and standards

NHS England (2019). Service specification: Gender Identity Services for Adults (Non-Surgical Interventions). https://www.england.nhs.uk/publication/service-specification-gender-identity-services-for-adults-non-surgical-interventions/

Care Quality Commission (2022). Adult trans care pathway: What CQC expects from speech and language therapy services. https://www.cqc.org.uk/guidance-providers/nhs-trusts/adult-trans-care-pathway-what-cqc-expects-speech-language-therapy

Trans children and young people

BBC (2019). The parents keeping their child's sex a secret. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-england-bristol-49693983

Trans people and identity

Davies, S., Papp, V. G., & Antoni, C. (2015). Voice and Communication Change for Gender Nonconforming Individuals: Giving Voice to the Person Inside. International Journal of Transgenderism, 16(3), 117-159. https://doi.org/10.1080/15532739.2015.1075931

Levitt, H. M., & Ippolito, M. R. (2014). Being Transgender: The Experience of Transgender Identity Development. Journal of homosexuality, 61(12), 1727-1758. https://doi.org/10.1080/00918369.2014.951262

Davies, A., Bouman, W. P., Richards, C., Barrett, J., Ahmad, S., Baker, K., Lenihan, P., Lorimer, S., Murjan, S., Mepham, N., Robbins-Cherry, S., Seal, L. J., & Stradins, L. (2013). Patient satisfaction with gender identity clinic services in the United Kingdom. Sexual and Relationship Therapy, 28(4), 400-418. https://doi.org/10.1080/14681994.2013.834321

Trans men

Azul, D. (2015). Transmasculine people's vocal situations: a critical review of gender-related discourses and empirical data. International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 50(1), 31-47. https://doi.org/10.1111/1460-6984.12121

Azul, D., Nygren, U., Södersten, M., & Neuschaefer-Rube, C. (2017). Transmasculine People's Voice Function: A Review of the Currently Available Evidence. Journal of Voice, 31(2), 261.e269-261.e223. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jvoice.2016.05.005

Trans women

Dacakis, G., Oates, J., & Douglas, J. (2012). Beyond voice: perceptions of gender in male-to-female transsexuals. Current opinion in otolaryngology & head and neck surgery, 20(3), 165. https://doi.org/10.1097/MOO.0b013e3283530f85

Hancock, A. B., & Garabedian, L. M. (2013). Transgender Voice and Communication Treatment: A Retrospective Chart Review of 25 Cases. International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 48(1), 54-65. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1460-6984.2012.00185.x

Gelfer, M. P., & Van Dong, B. R. (2012). A Preliminary Study on the Use of Vocal Function Exercises to Improve Voice in Male-to-Female Transgender Clients. Journal of Voice. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jvoice.2012.07.008

Cis men and women's voices

Pemberton, C., McCormack, P., & Russell, A. (1998). Have women's voices lowered across time? A cross sectional study of Australian women's voices. Journal of Voice, 12(2), 208-213. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0892-1997(98)80040-4

Klofstad, C. A., Anderson, R. C., & Peters, S. (2012). Sounds like a winner: voice pitch influences perception of leadership capacity in both men and women. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 279(1738), 2698-2704. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2012.0311