Waste of the Day: NIH Awards $200,000 Grant for Transgender Voice Training
This story originally was published by Real Clear Wire
By Adam Andrzejewski
Real Clear Wire
Topline: The National Institutes of Health is paying $214,000 for three researchers to create a “transgender voice training” app, according to Fox News.
Key facts: The study aims to address “voice dysphoria,” which researchers say causes lower quality of life when a person’s voice does not match their gender identity.
Researchers will coach 40 trans women to help change the pitch and resonance of their voice to sound more feminine.
The participants will meet once a week with a speech-language pathologist. Half of them will use a generic voice training software and half will use the app specifically made for transgender people,
