K (189?–?) Soviet pioneer. From Kazan, Tartarstan, USSR, K was diagnosed as a ‘transvestite’ in 1937.
She was given permission by the People’s Court to wear female clothing, her identity papers were changed to her female name, and her name was removed from the military recruitment rolls.
She was featured in a 1957 gynaecology textbook.
M.G. Serdiukov. Sudebnaia ginekologiia I sudebnoi akusherstvo. Moscow: Meditsina 1957: 47-8.
Dan Healey. Homosexual Desire in Revolutionary Russia: The Regulation of Sexual and Gender Dissent. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2001: fig 24.
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I have come to realize that I am significantly more affected by dysphoria than I thought. I realized how much of a prison guyness feels like and how much I hate feeling like one. I feel like I'm always a little bit aware of what I look like and what I sound like and it makes human interaction feel so much harder.spoiler
It's always surprising, isn't it? You don't know how bad dysphoria is, for some people anyway, until they've experienced euphoria and something appreciating the gender they wanna be/already are. I never would have said I felt gender dysphoria before I cracked my egg but on the other side of that moment - yeah, I absolutely did and it got worse for a while.People aren't supposed to exist the way I did: zombie like, disassociating, depressed, anxious, going through the motions and shrugging "why not" when I was handed down manhood by the hegemonic culture, jealous of girls and women in ways that didn't make sense to my (male) friends.
Good news is there is a cure for dysphoria! And it's called transitioning, and you can do it/already are! The voice thing is hard but you can do voice training, progress is typically measured in years - but 3 years from now you'll be glad if you start today. There is a surgery for it but you can make all or most of your progress feminizing your voice by training. I tried to do my old boy voice a few months ago and I uh, lost it. I sound like a girl attempting to sound like her dad to get out of trouble (badly). I can still do, like, Elvis impressions but lost what I thought was going to be my forever voice since I was 16.
Always fun seeing trans women trying to do boy voices badly. One of the streamers I watch regularly was reading voice lines for characters in different voices and I found it amusing how much her male-character voice sounded like what you were describing (granted, I have no clue what her pre-transition voice sounded like).