{Five Senses} of Trans(gender) Perception

Perception is a recipe made from sight, smell, touch, taste, and hearsay.

They’re tricky minxes, salacious sirens obscuring the truth.

You’ll see what you want to see.

You’ll hear what you want to hear too: “Gender is biological sex,”

five sensory inroads constructing an experiential echo chamber.

Perception is a recipe made from sight, smell, touch, taste, and hearsay.

How strangers perceived me on estrogen (past):

“woman,” “girl,” “she,” “lady.”

You saw what you wanted to see.

How strangers perceive me on testosterone (present):

“guy,” “gentleman,” “he” “sir.”

Perception is a recipe made from sight, smell, touch, taste, and hearsay.

Who I always was, regardless of dominant hormone class:

wonderfully trans, nonbinary, transmasculine.

You’ll see what you want to see.

Hormones create an appearance, which creates the turning point

at which people see me as I always saw myself.

Perception is a recipe made from sight, smell, touch, taste, and hearsay.

You’ll see what you want to see.