{"id":5207,"date":"2026-10-29T13:56:31","date_gmt":"2026-10-29T18:56:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/voicefem.com\/what-is-voice-feminization-surgery\/"},"modified":"2026-10-29T13:56:31","modified_gmt":"2026-10-29T18:56:31","slug":"what-is-voice-feminization-surgery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voicefem.com\/en\/what-is-voice-feminization-surgery\/","title":{"rendered":"What exactly is voice feminization surgery?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"blog-byline\"><em>By Dr. Samir Ballestas | Voicefem<\/em><\/p>\n<p>For many trans women, their voice is one of the biggest obstacles to feeling fully at home in themselves. Despite hormone treatments or speech therapy, the vocal cords do not change on their own. This is where voice feminization surgery comes in.<\/p>\n<p>The most widely used and effective procedure we perform at Voicefem is known as <strong>Wendler Glottoplasty<\/strong>. But what does it involve? Put simply, it is a minimally invasive surgery (performed through the mouth, with no external incisions) that aims to mimic the anatomy of a female larynx.<\/p>\n<p>During surgery, we reduce the length and mass of the vocal cords and increase their tension.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"blog-pullquote\">\n<p>Imagine the strings of a guitar: if you shorten and tighten a string, the sound it produces is higher. That is exactly what we do with your vocal cords.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>As it heals, the new tissue will vibrate at a higher frequency, permanently raising your baseline pitch. This procedure not only changes how you sound, but also removes the strain of keeping your voice high all day.<\/p>\n<p>At Voicefem, our goal is for your voice to sound natural, feminine and, above all, truly yours.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For many trans women, their voice is one of the biggest obstacles to feeling fully at home in themselves. Despite hormone treatments or speech therapy, the vocal cords do not change on their own.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":5201,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[461],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voicefem.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/voicefem.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/voicefem.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voicefem.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voicefem.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/voicefem.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5207\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voicefem.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voicefem.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voicefem.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voicefem.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}