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!Community Discussion! Cisnormativity and How We Tag Audios
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Something I've noticed is that a bunch of subs define the performer tags as, "Your gender's voice."

Unfortunately this isn't exactly accurate when you have trans folks in the community. Many of us perform different gendered audios from what gender we actually are. I've heard multiple trans women talk about voicing M4A audios.

I personally voice NB/TF/and M audios. I'm genderfluid, these voice types are within my personal range.

I think it'd be more accurate to change it to, "Performing as a voice of x gender."

And the second thing is, if we have "TF" and "TM" as tags, why are the other tags "F," and "M," respectively. Should they not be "CF," and "CM," for "Cis female," and "Cis Male"?

If binary trans folks are asked to call themselves "trans" using the tags, the assumption is that cis men and cis women are the defaults. And that "TM" and "TF" are basically "other genders." It creates a weird cisnormative situation where trans folks are expected to add that other letter despite being the same gender.

It might seem minor, but the overlap between "TF" and "F" is there. Same for "TM" and "M" voices. You're going to get "TF" performers who sound just like cis women, and "TM" performers who sound just like cis men. And NB folk who can sound like any of these, and other things in-between.

So if someone who is a trans woman wanted to perform a cis female voice in an audio, there shouldn't be an issue. Same for a trans guy and a cis male voice. Or any nonbinary person and any voice they feel comfortable performing.

I don't have any immediate solutions to this problem. But I think that trans VAs should contribute to the conversations, and cis folks should listen to what people come to an agreement about. This is a valuable discussion that might shape the future of inclusivity in the VA community.

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