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{{Short description|Moroccan blogger}}
{{Infobox person
| name               = Soufia Taloni
| image              = Sofia_taloni_portail.jpg
| birth_place        = [[Al Hoceïma]], [[Morocco]]
| education          = 
| occupation         = Blogging & influencer
| employer           = 
| known_for          = [[LGBT]]
}}

'''Soufia Taloni''', also known as '''Naoufal Moussa''' ({{lang-ar|'''طالوني صوفيا'''}}) (born 27 April 1983, [[Al Hoceima]]), is a [[transgender]] Moroccan [[blog|blogging]].<ref name=":0">{{cite news |last=Reporter |first=Staff |date= 18 may 2020 |title= Video: Soufia Taloni shares her physical transformation and how plastic surgery changed her life |url= https://www.welovebuzz.com/video-sofia-taloni-raconte-sa-transformation-physique-et-comment-la-chirurgie-esthetique-a-change-sa-vie |newspaper= blastingnews |access-date=5 august 2022}}</ref>

== Biography ==
Soufia Taloni, by her birth name Naoufal Moussa was born on [[April 27]], [[1983]] into a wealthy family in [[Al Hoceïma]], parents moroccans. She spent all her youth in [[Morocco]]. At 19, she studied at university in [[Rabat]].<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/05/14/naoufal-moussa-morocco-trans-influencer-gay-men-outed-social-media-grindr/| title=Trans influencer | date=14 May 2020 |access-date=14 May 2020}}</ref>

[[Transgender]], she left for [[Turkey]] in 2019 to perform cosmetic [[Sex reassignment surgery (female-to-male)|feminization surgery]].<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.insider.com/moroccan-instagram-influencer-moussa-gay-men-outed-adam-eli-2020-4| title=video sparked a trend of people using dating apps to out them| date=17 April 2020 |access-date=17 April 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=https://le12.ma/article/441157| title=Soufia taloni| date=16 April 2020 |access-date=16 April 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=https://le360.ma/people/karima-wassat-on-me-comparait-a-haifa-maintenant-on-va-mappeler-jennifer-lopez-253140| title=Karima Wassat: 'They used to compare me to Haifa, now they'll call me Jennifer Lopez| date=20 April 2020 |access-date=20 April 2020}}</ref>

== Career on social networks ==
Soufia Taloni launched two trending concepts on [[YouTube]] #24for24, having accumulated more than 5 million views. She talks to famous personalities or with ordinary people. Sofia maintains good relations with other YouTubers and avoids entering into conflicts or rivalry with them.<ref name=talouni>{{cite news |last=Reporter |first=Staff |date= 14 May 2020 |title= Instagram influencer who encouraged followers to out gay men in Morocco apologizes |url= https://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/ny-instagram-influence-outed-gay-men-morocco-apology-20200514-fsxa7ytii5eovam336pwwvtwrm-story.html |newspaper= nydailynews |access-date=14 May 2020}}</ref>
 
Soufia Taloni is one of the most famous influencers in Morocco; his videos are in Moroccan dialect. She was "raised as a star" by social networks Her certified Instagram<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.liberation.fr/planete/2020/04/27/maroc-les-lgbt-en-proie-a-la-vindicte-d-une-influenceuse-transsexuelle_1785679/| title=Morocco: LGBTs in the grip of the vindictiveness of a trans influencer| date=23 April 2020 |access-date=23 April 2020}}</ref> account is followed by more than 600,000 people until her suspension in April 2020.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.moroccoworldnews.com/2020/04/300699/transgender-moroccan-influencer-tells-women-to-out-gay-men| title=Transgender Moroccan Influencer| date=25 April 2020 |access-date=25 April 2020}}</ref>
 
Conservative, Soufia's family did not encourage her at first to follow the path of YouTuber, a field still new in Morocco.

== Affair Soufia Taloni ==
In April 2020, Soufia Taloni publicly called on her fans to denounce Moroccan [[homosexuals]], during a live [[Instagram]]. His Instagram account was then suspended.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.slate.fr/story/190038/maroc-denonciation-homos-outing-harcelement-internet| title=In Morocco, we are hunting gays on the internet in full confinement| date=30 April 2020 |access-date=30 April 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=https://gaynation.co/men-living-in-fear-as-trans-model-launches-campaign-to-out-them/| t(contracted; show full)
 
According to the [[New York Times]]<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/26/world/middleeast/gay-morocco-outing.html| title=Sofia Talouni was insulted about her sexual orientation. In a rage, she released a profanity-laced video encouraging women to download the location-based meeting apps, like Grindr and Planet Romeo, which are usually used by gay men| date=26 April 2020 |access-date=15 April 2020}}</ref> So
ufia Taloni had just been sworn at because of her gender identity when, in a fit of rage, she published the incitement to report gay people, the effects of which were devastating.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-out/transgender-beauty-influencer-outs-gay-men-morocco-sparking-widespread-fear-n1195866| title=Transgender beauty influencer outs gay men in Morocco| date=30 April 2020 |access-date=30 April 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.mmensuel.fr/outing-au-maroc-linfluenceuse-trans-presente-ses-excuses/| title=OUTING AU MAROC : L'influenceuse trans présente ses excuses| date=30 April 2020 |access-date=15 April 2020}}</ref>

According to the sociologist Khalid Mouna who speaks in [[Liberation]]<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.liberation.fr/planete/2020/04/27/maroc-les-lgbt-en-proie-a-la-vindicte-d-une-influenceuse-transsexuelle_1785679/| title=Morocco: LGBT in the grip of the vengeance of a trans influencer| date=30 April 2020 |access-date=27 mai 2020}}</ref> Soufia Taloni tries to inflict on LGBT people the exclusion that she herself suffered (especially from her family). He underlines the fact that "she adopts the codes of her own detractors"

Returning to this affair in 2021 in a study on the representations of gender identity in Morocco, Anne M. Montgomery and Abderrahim El Habachi attribute to Soufia Talouni the desire to "expose the hypocrisy of Moroccan society by unmasking hundreds of “[[gay]]” people “She told women to download dating apps for [[gay men]] (like [[Grindr]] and [[PlanetRomeo]])<ref>{{cite web | url=https://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0306422020935360| title=In Morocco, one of the 70-plus countries where being gay is still illegal, a social media influencer and model Sofia Talouni used quarantine to ask people to join dating sites and out men they might know. Up to 100 men in Morocco have(contracted; show full)

In 2021, in reaction to the [[outing]]<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.bladi.net/amour-fait-loi-minorites-sexuelles-maroc,78450.html| title=Love makes law”, the cry of the heart of sexual minorities in Morocco| date=30 April 2020 |access-date=15 June 2020}}</ref> of [[LGBT]] people to which So
ufia Taloni had called, a book of testimonies concerning the discrimination and violence that these people suffer, entitled L'Amour fait loi, was published by La Sélénite editions<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.queerty.com/influencer-led-campaign-gay-men-now-says-merely-trying-humanize-gay-people-20200514| title=In Morocco, we are hunting gays on the internet in full confinement| date=14 May 2020 |access-date=14 May 2020}}</ref>

In 2021, Soufia Taloni files a complaint for attempted homicide against her after a burglary the site afrik.com hypothesizes a settlement of accounts in connection with the 2020 case<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-morocco-lgbt-crime-trfn-idUSKBN22P2UI| title=Morocco influencer apologises for Sofia Taloni| date=13 May 2020 |access-date=13 May 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.afrik.com/les-agresseurs-de-la-marocaine-sofia-taloni-courent-toujours| title=Moroccan Sofi(contracted; show full)==Other websites==
{{Commons category|Sofia Taloni}}
* [http://www.soufiaestetik.net official site]

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GBT people from Turkey]]
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