If you thought higher education couldnāt possibly delegitimize itself anymore, think again. Russell Sage College in Albany, New York is launching a āgender-affirmingā voice course to teach students how to speak, sneeze, and cough like the opposite sex.
āThe program will offer small group sessions on their Albany campus, focusing on aspects of voice such as pitch, inflection, and resonance,ā reported Campus Reform. The program is set to launch in the spring of 2025 and will last twenty hours over the semester.
A description of the event explains that the course will cover ālanguage and nonverbal communication,ā such as ācoughing, sneezing, and throat-clearing, because these often affect listener perception of gender.ā
āModeled after the longstanding program at The College of Saint Rose, sessions will be two hours long, and each semester will include 10 sessions,ā Russell Sageās website adds. āThe program allows participants to explore aspects of voice, like pitch, inflection, resonance, articulation, and loudness.ā
According to Campus Reform, āRussell Sageās program is based on a similar program at The College of Saint Rose, which recently announced that it will close this month. The professor who co-founded Saint Roseās transgender voice modification program, Jack Pickering, has explained that the goal of the program is to 'enhance' a personās identity.ā
āYouāre taking a flute and making it play like a piccolo. Youāre trying to make the instrument play differently ā not to treat a problem, but to help enhance a personās identity,ā said Pickering.
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