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{{Infobox person
| name               = Soufia Taloni
| image              = Sofia_taloni_portail.jpg
| caption            = 
| birth_date    = {{Birth date|df=yes|1983|4|27}}
| birth_place   = [[Al Hoceima]], [[Morroco]]
| citizenship        = [[Turkish]]
| occupation         = Blogging & videographer
}}

'''Soufia Taloni''', also known as '''Naoufal Moussa''' ({{lang-ar|'''طالوني صوفيا'''}}) (born 27 April 1983, [[Al Hoceima]]), is a [[transgender]] moroccan.<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 "male-to-female"<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>

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/| title=Men living in fear as trans model launches campaign to out them| date=30 April 2020 |access-date=23 April 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=https://v4na.com/en/influencer-betrays-lgbt-peers-39658/| title=Influencing betrays LGBT peers| date=30 April 2020 |access-date=13 mai 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.courrierinternational.com/revue-de-presse/haine-chasse-aux-sorcieres-au-maroc-contre-les-homosexuels| title=Hate. “Witch hunt” in Morocco against homosexuals| date=30 April 2020 |access-date=24 April 2020}}</ref> She later apologizes, her intention having been, according to her, to help normalize homosexuality, but doubts about her sincerity remain. The case is all the more serious as homosexuality is illegal in Morocco (unlike Turkey where the blogger lives).<ref name=Sofia>{{cite news |last=Reporter |first=Staff |date= 22 April 2020 |title= Morocco: LGBT in the grip of the vengeance of a trans influencer |url= https://www.liberation.fr/planete/2020/04/27/maroc-les-lgbt-en-proie-a-la-vindicte-d-une-influenceuse-transsexuelle_1785679/ |newspaper= liberation.fr |access-date=15 June 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/26/world/middleeast/gay-morocco-outing.html| title=Dozens of gay men are outed in Morocco as photos are spread online| date=30 April 2020 |access-date=26 April 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.yabiladi.com/articles/details/93519/maroc-mea-culpa-sofia-taloni-l-origine.html| title=Morocco: The mea culpa of Sofia Taloni, at the origin of the campaign of "outing" of homosexuals| date=30 April 2020 |access-date=15 April 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.gaystarnews.com/article/moroccan-trans-influencer-apologizes-for-sparking-witch-hunt-of-gay-men/| title=Moroccan trans influencer apologizes for sparking witch hunt of gay men| date=30 April 2020 |access-date=14 April 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=https://fr.blastingnews.com/international/2020/05/maroc-linfluenceuse-trans-responsable-de-la-chasse-aux-homosexuels-fait-son-mea-culpa-003138097.html| title=Morocco: The trans influencer responsible for 'gay hunting' makes her mea culpa| date=30 April 2020 |access-date=15 December 2020}}</ref>
 
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> Soufia 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 [[Human rights in Morocco]] 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 Taloni 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 since been harassed and abused, with reports that some have been kicked out of their homes. One has taken his own life.» Jemimah Steinfeld, « Forced out of the closet: As people live out more of their lives online right now, our report highlights how LGBTQ dating apps can put people’s lives at risk », Index on Censorship, vol. 49, no 2,‎ juillet 2020, p. 101–104| date=30 April 2020 |access-date=27 mai 2020}}</ref> and search for people they knew” In 24 hours, nearly 150,000 accounts were created in the Morocco. Nearly 100 people have been identified as homosexual. Some had to leave their homes and one of them committed suicide<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.gaystarnews.com/article/grindr-witch-hunt-sparks-fresh-call-to-make-gay-sex-legal-in-morocco/| title=Grindr witch-hunt sparks fresh call to make gay sex legal in Morocco| date=28 April 2020 |access-date=28 April 2020}}</ref>

This scandal was the subject of public debate in Morocco, and was the starting point for awareness campaigns in the form of live debates "Ajiw N'hadro" ("It's time to talk about it") organized by the collective of "Hors-la-loi du Maroc" The Moroccan police have opened an investigation for "incitement to hatred and discrimination" following these revelations of information on private life<ref>{{cite web | url=https://news.trust.org/item/20200513160744-1v82p/| title=Morocco Instagram influencer apologises for role in outing of gay men| date=13 May 2020 |access-date=13 May 2020}}</ref>

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 Soufia 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 Sofia Taloni's attackers are still running| date=15 June 2020 |access-date=15 June 2020}}</ref> 

In 2022, several Moroccan sites relayed her position deemed paradoxical in favor of a Muslim preacher who criticized the fact of representing positively in a television series<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.akhbarona.com/social/347332.html| title=  بالصورة.. المتحول "طالوني" يفاجئ الجميع بموقف غير متوقع من قضية "الشيخة والداعي | date=30 April 2020 |access-date=15 June 2020}}</ref> a category of marginalized women<ref>{{cite web | url=https://ralia.lesiteinfo.com/celebrites/%D8%B5%D9%88%D9%81%D9%8A%D8%A7-%D8%B7%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%88%D9%86%D9%8A-%D8%AA%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%81%D8%B9-%D8%B9%D9%86-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B4%D9%8A%D8%AE-%D9%8A%D8%A7%D8%B3%D9%8A%D9%86-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D9%85-118565.html| title=  صوفيا طالوني تدافع عن الشيخ ياسين العمري -صورة | date=30 April 2020 |access-date=15 June 2020}}</ref> dancers and singers sometimes on the verge of prostitution called shikha.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.klyoum.com/morocco-news/ar/16-%D8%B5%D9%88%D9%81%D9%8A%D8%A7-%D8%B7%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%88%D9%86%D9%8A-%D8%AA%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%81%D8%B9-%D8%B9%D9%86-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B4%D9%8A%D8%AE-%D9%8A%D8%A7%D8%B3%D9%8A%D9%86-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D9%85%D8%B1%D9%8A-%D8%AE%D8%AF%D9%85%D8%A9-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B4%D9%8A%D8%AE%D8%A9-%D8%AD%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%85-%D9%88%D9%81%D8%B3%D9%82-%D8%A8%D8%AD%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%87%D8%A7-%D8%A8%D8%AD%D8%A7%D9%84-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AD%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A9.php| title= صوفيا طالوني تدافع عن الشيخ ياسين العمري: خدمة | date=30 April 2020 |access-date=15 June 2020}}</ref>

==References==
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==Other websites==
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* [http://www.soufiaestetik.net Official Website]

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