Gender Dysphoria and Voice Acting
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- čas přidán 21. 05. 2022
- Here's a little taste of the crazy and incredible journey that I've gone on as a transgender voice actor. My voice was, historically, my biggest source of dysphoria. This is how acting has helped heal that.
I hope you enjoy! :)
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Boone ... it's fascinating watching you grow up on CZcams!
800 hundred views is not growing, is just grooming with extra steps
I don't know a whole lot about voice acting; I'm not an actor, but what you said about 'getting lost in different worlds and becoming someone else' and using that to 'unlock different parts of' yourself... I 100% know what you mean by that! One of my main hobbies is worldbuilding, but what really fascinates me is creating and exploring the characters who _inhabit_ my worlds. Also, I play a lot of video games, especially games like Skyrim with lots of character customization, and I always like to imagine _who_ my character is, and play the game according to _their_ motives; following _their_ hopes and dreams. And, by creating these characters, I began to understand myself better, too. Heck, in part, it was playing Skyrim that helped me realize I was trans, when I started noticing how much more comfortable I felt playing female characters. So yeah, I totally can see how acting a character can be cathartic and enlightening!
And, on the importance of cartoons: even as an adult (barely; I'm 24 and don't even _remotely_ have my shit together, lol), the one piece of media I've seen that's most important to me is a cartoon! Specifically, She-Ra; I watched it when was just a few months into my transition, and it hit _so_ close to home for me. Its themes of finding your own identity and loving your true self were _exactly_ what I needed to hear at that moment in my life. Add to that, my body still hadn't quite adjusted to the estrogen yet so when the emotions hit, they hit hard. I will always remember crying my eyes out for a solid _week_ after watching the finale, and that silly kid's show about magic princesses will always, always hold a very dear place in my heart. I pity folks who dismiss cartoons and kids' shows as 'beneath them'; a cartoon genuinely changed my life for the better. Storytelling, in all its forms, is a truly beautiful, powerful thing.
Hey thank you SO much for sharing your experiences!!! That is super fascinating to me. What you said about Skyrim particularly seems like it would be such a cool experience, and it definitely reminds me of my own experiences with acting!
She-Ra is a wonderful cartoon, and I'm so glad you had such a positive experience watching it!!! Cartoons can definitely hold a lot of power. I had sort of a similar experience, watching the Harley Quinn animated series. I re-watched it late at night on my 20th birthday, and then I read two of the comics. It hit me in some really personal areas, and I loved it.
Stories and characters are truly wonderful, and it's so fascinating how they can help us learn about our own inner selves.
Thank you very much for your lovely insight and comment :)
Sorry the focus and lightning both kinda suck. It looked better on my laptop 😂
I'm an actress, trans femme too, and it's been kinda hard to feel ready to get back to acting because I'm going through the first year of hrt and everything feels and looks weird to me in a "not there yet" way, I hope I can manage to act soon tho, because it's something I've always loved how to do, and I miss it quite a lot.
Other thing I've been missing is doing sports, but I have to use a wig to be like perceived as a woman, since my hair isn't the best yet, it's hard to do martial arts with a wig on 😅 but yeah, I hope I can overcome this soon and I feel safe and ready to act and get back to doing sports.
I wish you all the best in your voice acting career!
Hey!! Thanks for your lovely comment. I totally relate to that. I did karate for many years but quit before transitioning. I've wanted to come back for a long time, but during my transition I was very nervous to do that. Acting was similar! I know you'll get to a place soon enough where you're comfortable doing both of those things again. :) Wishing you the absolute best!!
These were some pretty interesting experiences to hear about. I love voice acting, and even had some slight ambitions myself to try, but I was an anxious teenager with no real draw toward acting, or anything super public, so I never really pursued those desires. Later in life I started learning that I might actually have some decent vocal range, cause I can achieve voices that tend to make people turn their head as if in surprise that I was able to make those sounds. Like, I can go super low, like Dr. Claw from Inspector Gadget kind of low, but I can also go into some higher ranges and get kind of weird and frenetic akin to like a Bobcat Goldthwait. However, once I learned I was trans, I also learned that I have some vocal deficiencies because I don't exercise my voice very often. I'd imagine because of dysphoria, I don't speak very much, or very loud at all, so if I want to properly reap any benefits from voice training, I have to do some extra leg work to catch up. But that requires actually starting, which I keep procrastinating on. It would be nice to be able to speak for long periods of time without my throat hurting though, so it might be worth the effort.
Loved hearing your thoughts on this espc since I want to get into voice acting one day! 💕
Thank you so much!!!! I wish you the best of luck!!!! 😊💓
My great grandpas name was Boone.💜
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I am trans I also want to do voice overs and voice acting using a female voice. My voice usually low but no know I am a bio male