00:02we do surgery which is called feminizing voice surgery which is basically for male to female
00:08trans person so the trans women the reason is when there is someone who becomes a trans man
00:14then with the testosterone the voice pitch drops so they need no surgery the voice becomes masculine
00:20but the same thing does not happen for the trans women because they take estrogen and there's no
00:25effect on the voice there is an effect on the rest of the body but not on the voice so
00:30what we offer
00:31in feminizing voice surgery is an endoscopic surgery we use a laser also here in bombay hospital where i
00:38work where we shorten the length of the vocal folds vocal folds are about 24 millimeters here
00:44in the neck and we freshen the anterior part of the vocal fold and suture it together so we shorten
00:51the
00:51length when we shorten the length the pitch will automatically increase that is physics so this
00:57is how we increase the pitch from masculine to feminine so that is our trans voice surgery or
01:04feminizing surgery in bombay hospital we actually offer a trans voice package for this group of
01:11patients because very often the patients have no family support no financial support so in terms of
01:19empathy the hospital has really sort of supported us i do the surgery for free my therapist does the
01:25therapy for free the anesthetist do the anesthesia for free so just in 20 000 rupees we do the entire
01:32surgery and the therapy for the patients we're doing this trans package for a year for i think now about
01:3920
01:39patients but we've been doing the surgery for over 20 years over the years one or two surgeries a year
01:45have now translated into two to three surgeries sometimes in a month so the numbers are increasing
01:51and probably this is most likely due to social media whatsapp groups instagram and the awareness
01:57being created within the trans community that yes a trans voice surgery exists
02:02you
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