I've been going back and forth on my voice since I started hormones (5 months). I'm happy with how my voice sounds to begin with, and I'm pretty/passing enough to where I'm mostly gendered correctly, but I know there are always going to be people who judge me because of it. Voice training is so hard though, and one-on-one lessons are too expensive for me right now.

Currently I plan to keep my voice. It seems like the only good reason to change it would be to avoid being harassed for being trans, but since I live in an accepting area this doesn't really happen to me.

What about in the future though? When I'm 30, working as a public school teacher, and have been living as a trans woman for a decade, will cis people I have no excuse for not 'fixing' my voice?

Someone told me that "your voice is your soul." I don't have any problems with the way I sound, I have no issues with how my identity comes out in my speech, but I still wonder what kind of discrimination I might face if I don't change it anyway.

I'd love to hear some encouragement or advice or just personal stories from other women that kept their voices. I'm having a hard time convincing myself that it'll be okay.