There are a few things to be said about Snapchat's gender swap filter. The first, of course, is that Snaptchat was popular until a couple of years ago as a social media enterprise. Now, they are just innovating on filters to remain relevant. When I saw this, the first thing I thought was, couldn't they think of something better? I love TikTok and there's a meme that comes on it, which has a woman sing 'jaa apna gender jaake change karale'. This filter just reminds me of that.

The second problem with the filter, from a purely heteronormative perspective, is that it extremely masculinises or feminses your features in a way, which would be like going under extreme cosmetic surgery with pre-determined values on how feminine or masculine you should be, in order to qualify being a man or a woman.