The links below are well-written analyses & criticisms of transactivist silencing tactics. Enjoy!
Consider how many female celebrities of classical mythology, literature and cult make themselves objectionable by the way they use their voice.
There are the Furies whose highpitched and horrendous voices are compared by Aiskhylos to howling dogs or sounds of people being tortured in hell.
There is the deadly voice of the Sirens and the dangerous ventriloquism of Helen and the incredible babbling of Kassandra and the fearsome hullabaloo of Artemis as she charges through the woods.
There is the seductive discourse of Aphrodite which is so concrete an aspect of her power that she can wear it on her belt as a physical object or lend it to other women.
There is the old woman of Eleusinian legend Iambe who shrieks and throws her skirt up over her head to expose her genitalia.
Putting a door on the female mouth has been an important project of patriarchal culture from antiquity to present day. Its chief tactic is an ideological association of female sound with monstrosity, disorder and death.