Renée's Blog

Hello, fabulous readers! I’m Renée, your friendly neighbourhood gender-affirming voice teacher. Welcome to part one of my eight-part series on the basics of gender-affirming voice work. Trust me, you won't want to miss a beat, so make sure to follow, save, and drop a comment on TikTok, Instagram,...

Alright, folks, we're diving in. Let's chat about the voice heard 'round the world – Elizabeth Holmes'. Hi, I’m Renée, your go-to gender-affirming voice teacher. In 2022, Holmes was convicted of defrauding investors out of hundreds of millions of dollars through her company, Theranos. Yet, amids...

Over the past few years, my library of free trans voice resources has grown and grown. It's one of the accomplishments that I'm most proud of! In case you haven't checked it out in a while, I thought I would recap some of my favourites: Voice Warm-Up Videos Follow along with me as I teach yo...

Hey there, fabulous voice explorers! Today, I’m tackling a question that pops up quite often in our community: "How do I avoid the T voice after starting testosterone?" One of my students asked this, and it's such an important topic that I’ve dedicated a whole TikTok to it. But let's dive deeper ...

Hey there, fabulous folks! I’m Renée, your friendly neighborhood gender-affirming voice teacher, and today, I want to address a comment that really got me thinking. Someone recently said, “I just don’t voice train because I don’t care. I don’t know why I just don’t. It’s not for me, you know? Is...

A received a great question on tiktok the other day: “Genuine question as someone who detransition after taking T, then learnt voice and went on to teach others. How can you teach this when you’ve never been exposed to male T levels?”   I think this is a fabulous question, so let's get into ...

Hey lovely people, In one month, I’ll be bidding a fond farewell to the very first trans voice course I ever released… Just about three years ago, I launched the course that started it all - Trans Vocal Exploration. This course was born from a live workshop I used to give for mixed groups at l...

If you’ve ever said, “I can’t match pitch!” — don’t worry, you’re not alone. I have an exercise that’s helped my students match pitch with a 95% success rate. Whether you’re working on your trans voice training, voice feminization, voice masculinization, or simply improving your singing, this met...

Hey lovely folks! So, I was on TikTok Live the other day, having a fabulous time chatting with all of you about voice training. One question really stuck out and I think it's worth diving into here. It was from someone working on masculinizing their voice who said it often sounds tired. Let’s bre...

Hello trans voice explorers! Today I wanted to share with you an excerpt from my most recent course, Mix & Match: Designing Your Nonbinary Voice. This lesson is from the first module and it's about vocal anatomy. I'm sharing it because I think it's important to have the fundamentals of vocal an...