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Welcome to the Laverne Cox Show, a production of Shondaland Audio in partnership with IHeart Radio.

Oh, for a river, forever. a production of Shandaland audio in partnership with IHeart Radio.

Welcome to the Laverne Cox Show. My name is Laverne Cox. My voice. my voce. There are so many things that come to mind when I think about my voice

and finding my voice. I mean, there's the idea of sort of finding my voice in terms of

being able to speak up for myself and to own my story

and to find a way to sort of tell my story, that part of finding my voice.

But today what I want to talk about is my actual voice, my singing voice and my speaking

voice.

And my voice for me has been a fraught subject, a contested space, particularly as a trans woman who has a very deep voice.

I'm a trans woman who started my medical transition at the age of 26, and so my voice had already changed as a result of puberty and the testosterone dump that happens.

Do people assign male at birth during puberty if they have not had some sort of intervention?

And I had no idea.

I didn't even know the term transgender when I was going through puberty back in the day.

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