“I love being able to switch my family and friends faces,” though he said that he can “understand some people don't like the gendered stereotype filters. “In terms of the filters themselves, I personally love it,” Ross added. “However, I cannot speak to this experience as I am not a trans women of color,' Ross noted. I am scared that these filters might fuel the fire in terms of making fun of trans people.” “Which is a big problem in our society already, trans women (especially trans women of color) are not respected in society. Usually Snapchat makes me look cartoonishly adorable. Snapchat’s man and woman filters are frighteningly effective, and they went frighteningly viral causing the Instagram converts I know to re-download the app. “It can also be bad you have people making fun of the filters and laughing at ‘men looking like women’ and so on,” Ross said. A new set of filters has disrupted this trend, though: the gender swap. “It is a benefit when people are given an excuse to explore gender, and think about it in positive ways I think about everybody knows what their mom would have named them if they were born the opposite sex than the one they were given, but people have also wondered, ‘I this what I would have ended up looking like?'”Īs with much of social media, such a well-intentioned piece of technology has the potential to be used in negative or harmful ways.

“This is one of those things, and I’m sure some people early in their transition are using the filter to explore, ‘Where would I be going with my transition and what would it do for me?'” Tennehill said. Tennehill said she paid $130 in 2009 to someone who was really good at Photoshop to do a mock-up, but would have used the filter if she were transitioning today. “A lot of trans women in the past have paid money for people’s Photoshop skills and knowledge to do a virtual facial feminization surgery to get an idea of what could be corrected,” she said. Tannehill tells Salon such a tool could have been useful when she transitioned. “Good because people who are trans and/or non-binary who aren't able to physically transition because of a variety of reasons (parents no accepting, school, money, etc) - these people are able to use this app, and it gives them a small glimpse as to what they might look like once they are able to physically transition (if that is what they want).”īrynn Tannehill, a transgender writer and author of ' Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about Trans (But Were Afraid to Ask),' agrees. “I think the filter can be good and bad,” Ross said via email. Trans activist and YouTuber Chase Ross tells Salon the photo filter is somewhat of a double-edged sword. He said opener Quinton de Kock looks the same as he does now just with longer hair, whereas if he had to pick a girl next door, he would go with David Miller and Dwaine Pretorious.Yet while the filter is a lark for cisgender people - particularly those with stereotypical 'masculine' or 'feminine' features - it has the potential to be revolutionary to those who are interested in transitioning. Morris awarded the title of the ‘best looking woman’ in the South African team to himself, but would want to change his hair. The female filter gives users longer hair, finer features, blemish-free skin, and make-up effects like lipstick and blusher. Earlier, the (male) England Cricket team had also got in on the action. The app’s feature has gone viral with people downloading the app in droves to see what they would look like as the opposite gender. 😂 /evuomOVKoy- Cricket World Cup June 5, 2019 The Snapchat Gender Swap filter was applied on South Africa, and Chris Morris had a whale of a time describing each of his team-mates.

READ MORE: The five questions you should ask on a first date I made a Tinder using the new Snapchat filter to see what would happen, and these are the fcking messages I got, one Twitter user wrote. In a video posted on the ICC’s official Twitter handle for the Cricket World Cup, Morris had a “whale of a time describing each of his teammate” after applying the filter. Thankfully, the gender swap feature may finally enable men to understand the messages female users have to put up with on a daily basis.

Ahead of the all-important clash against India at the Rose Bowl in Southampton, South Africa’s Chris Morris had some silly fun as he applied Snapchat’s gender swap filter on his teammates to some pretty amazing results.

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