Forget dumping buckets of cold water over your head, or other online stunts you may have been tempted to take part in. What homophobes and transphobes are talking about now is the #SwitchItUpChallenge.
https://twitter.com/balleralert/status/811450125893726209
Here’s all that it requires:
- A straight couple.
- Gender-specific clothing.
- A snapshot.
- Social media.
#switchitupchallenge with bae 😂😍 follow our IG:chrisandqueen_ pic.twitter.com/z7K5PsOHxt
— chrissails_ (@Chrissails_) December 20, 2016
Oh, and although same-sex couples are welcome to take part and those who have look, as Dan Avery pointed out in NewNowNext, adorable…
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https://twitter.com/NhaleMyTweetz/status/811384108937056256
This is really a straight ally thing.
#switchitupchallenge people are living their truth. Now stop homophia and transphobia while ur at it pic.twitter.com/7iipVKMHuA
— THOT GOD XXX (@Mshooverthroat) December 21, 2016
It seems that while these couples clearly had fun taking the challenge…
#switchitupchallenge pic.twitter.com/3a6HOvjVON
— Lathan&Lala Gray (@KyngandLaLa) December 19, 2016
There are men who have threatened to unfollow and/or block any man they know who willingly poses for a picture wearing their lady’s outfit.
If any of my friends or family do this #switchitupchallenge you will forever be deleted and blocked 😂😂 done w the internet pic.twitter.com/lRAzz6tter
— Nathan Allen Pirtle (@workwthecoach) December 19, 2016
And then there are those dudes who claim this is “promoting homosexuality,” an immediately equate the challenge with anal sex. Because homophobia.
Women can be homophobes and transphobic, too, of course.
I will not be asking my
Man to participate in no damn #switchitupchallenge for fun or any other reason, and if he offer, we breaking up.— #StillSha (@Saoirse_Free) December 19, 2016
But not everyone feels this way; thank goodness for women who understand that posing for a picture wearing a skirt doesn’t mean you’re queer (well, unless you really are transgender, and if so, welcome!).
https://twitter.com/T3rr0nwilliams/status/811245288660860929?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
And kudos to the single ladies who proved they don’t need a man to switch it up!
Get You A Girl That Can Do Both😻🏈😛🤘🏽 #SwitchItUpChallenge pic.twitter.com/L8keiJeC6m
— keyviaa🥰 (@_Lovee__Pinkk) August 9, 2016
Watch this video a British couple made, calling it the “dress up challenge,” below:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_59siaL7_0&feature=youtu.be
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