If you’ve been on Instagram or Tik Tok in recent weeks, you’ll probably have come across a #DontRushChallenge video. A similar montage featuring trans men has now gone viral, prompting thousands of likes and comments.
The craze started when women began posting videos to the tune of the song “Don’t Rush” by Young T & Bugsey featuring Headie One. In the first part of the video, they show themselves without make-up. They then tap the camera with a makeup brush and reveal themselves transformed and made-over.
There are now thousands of similar clips online (including one by cast members of Orange Is The New Black), prompting a group of transmasculine guys to make their version last week.
The video was put together by Instagram user Lucas Elliot (@cooltransluke). He said he and seven other trans men who participated in a recent fashion show for an underwear brand decided to create their contribution to the genre.
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“Got together (digitally) with the FTM boys who walked in NYFW for MarcoMarco and made our version of this silly little Don’t Rush challenge. I hope you enjoy it as much as we did filming it.”
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The video prompted hundreds of comments and has been shared by the other models featured.
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The montage uses the song “Aura”, recorded by one of the models – singer Jaimie Wilson (@tboy61915). His resharing of the video has prompted over 17,000 likes and almost 1,000 comments – the vast majority of which were full of praise and approval.
“This reassured me quite a bit,” said one follower. “I’m just starting my transition and though I’m the happiest I’ve ever been, I still have a lot of insecurities induced by my gender dysphoria. It’s really cool to see all these guys looking great af, and knowing that they were exactly where I am now. It shows me that I can be exactly where they are in the future, through hard work, determination and self-respect.”
The popularity of the #DontRush challenge is inevitably partly because so many of us are currently living in lockdown and are seeking interesting challenges to help pass the time.
Wilson told Queerty, “Lockdown has been crazy but I’ve been making song after song. I just debuted my first duo project called Love Park with my girlfriend @iamjessenia, and Instagram influencer as well. The song is called “Four Walls” and it’s about being stuck inside with the one you love!”
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Lucas Elliot told Queerty he was fortunate to be able to work from home, but was enjoying creating fun content like this during his lockdown downtime.
“I also run a nonprofit, @TransInTheWild, and we host FREE weekly Zoom meetings for our trans community to simply come together and hangout,” he says. “It’s a safe space where we connect and showcase our talents, play icebreaker games, and share tips on how to cope with the current situation.”
Josh447
Amazing. Hot.
balttymore
Why is it all the FTM’S I see are hippy and still shaped like a female
jayceecook
Because you’re seeing what you want see whether it’s true or not. A lot of these guys were not “hippy”.
Many biological men have wide hips. Many biological women are bean poles. The human body doesn’t have a universal shape.
Kangol2
A sizable number of cis-men are pear-shaped.
Stephen
Size, Shape, girl bodies? Sounds like blatant sexism, judgemental fear of men who were assigned as women at birth looking better than you! Right? People have curves! Better bodies have great curves. It’s stunningly beautiful. And each one of those men, straight or gay are so f able! Handsome!
jayceecook
A lot of these guys were extremely sexy. Too bad some of them are straight. Queerty always trolling with the straight dudes.
Goforit
Ah yes. Once again the queen of how to make lemons out of lemonade speaks. YAWN!
jayceecook
See that middle finger in your profile pic? You can sit and spin on it for all I care.
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I have a regular FTM FB and until his underwear come off there is no way to figure he is not a biological male.
And the sex with him is as hot as with any other guy I have ever been with….
tf3.0
No way?
What does his penis look like?
dancinkarl
Amazing! Love that.
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tf3.0: Am going be nice and reply like this was a genuine inquiry. Because the clitoris actually grows on Transguyz to a pretty cute little peen….
MrMichaelJ
Wow so many FTM’s are drop dead gorgeous.
Kangol2
There are definitely some hot transmen in that IG #DontRushChallenge lineup, starting with that first one.
Prax07
FTM are Still biological Females. What’s in their underwear Matters, and not referring to their strap-ons.
Den
I think you mean “matters to you.”
It matters to me as well in terms of sex, but I would never be so presumptuous as to assume my preferences are universal.
Simply on the level of eyecandy, even knowing those bulges in their shorts are prostheses, these guys are really hot.
REDBEARD
Straight, Gay, who gives a f*ck. These are hot men and I’d do just about any of them. If what’s in their jocks is all that matters to you, mine’s full but you’ll never get near it.
missvamp
omg- they are all so damn hot! i’d have fun with any of them. the leather daddy- HOLY HELL!
amen to what redbeard said. i’m pansexual- i don’t care what’s in their jocks! i look at the whole person & i like what i see. i’d love to get to know any of them!
t
Forgive my ignorance surrounding my response but honestly, I thought every one of them were hot. I haven’t had an attraction to any FTMs that I have seen and I’m glad this video made me turn my head in their direction. Thanks for this.
HankHarris
Very handsome – but know when to put the tweezers down (that goes for all dudes, TBH)….
jayceecook
BWAAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!
So. True. There are a ton of women that should heed your advice as well.
Prax07
@Den Thing is they’re Not guys, and no matter how many surgeries they have and how many hormones they take will never change that.
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And some cretins will be ignorant nasty Dbags and that too will never change….
Den
Obviously you don’t know any trans people.
But honestly, your imagination about what they are, present as, or feel inside is just that. Your imagination.
And like any regressive, you are ignorant of history. There have been men who lived as women and women who lived as men who were not discovered until their deaths, a number of who achieved some measure of fame in their chosen endeavors.
What do you think they were?
SinthiaDoom
Welcome to the 21st century. We have been around always and now we are coming out of our closets. Some women have penises and some men have vaginas. The gender spectrum is much broader and complicated than two. Yes I am a trans woman happily married. We have been together for 20 years. He is cismale never assume. Love is love
Tombear
Doesn’t work for me. I’m a size queen.
MISTERJETT
i see a lot of trans men that, if the were biological men, i’d go for them. some are so hot!!!!
Stephen
It ain’t the meat it’s the movement!
What people identify as is the only issue.
If a person is born male and at 7 is suicidal to be out and female only,
Then it meañs that you respect their choices to be true to themselves.
Any age, any family, any situation.
If I was thrown out of the house homeless for a year at 15 then we have come some wáy forward. JAZZ. TV. Series. People are people. More trans people want top surgery and don’t do bottom surgery.
If a guy likes a trans M-F or F-M, then that’s great. It is personal.
It’s not experimenting if you are happy.
Question the number of men who identify as straight who want to be pegged by a female partner or spouse with a strap on.