Updated Saturday, June 4, 2022 –
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Journalist and influencer, she is a true celebrity on Tik Tok, with 835,000 followers. The PSOE of Valencia has signed her and she has just published a book, ‘Mam, soy mujer’, where she narrates her transition and her adventures with great humor.
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Her parents made it easy for her, she hasn’t had to get used to a new name because Dani is still Dani, although Daniel is now called Daniela. Changing gender hasn’t been as easy as changing her name, but she acknowledges that it hasn’t been traumatic either. Now, two years after the operation, he says that she is “happy, plethoric and better than ever”.
Daniela Requena (30) has always lived his transsexuality so naturally and normally that he decided Share your experience on Tik Tok. The success has been enormous and Daniela Sirena, as she calls herself on networks, accumulates ms on 835,000 followers on the platform and another 55,000 on Instagram. Now, besides, he has just published the first book of his, Mom, I’m a woman (Editorial Planeta), where he narrates, with great humor, what the childhood, adolescence and youth of a trans person is like and the prejudices and ignorance that persist.
“My transition has been very positive but, beware, they have also insulted me and they called me travelo. Everything I say in the book is true. although I am trembling, because my father has started reading it and of course, He’s going to find out how I lost my virginity at 16. I have told him that half of it is a lie,” says the Valencian tiktoker with a laugh.
His self-confidence and naturalness has opened the door to politics. The PSOE of Valencia filed her three months ago as secretary of the LGTBI and Diversity area. “I am a journalist and I am clear that I want to work on television. I had never considered entering politics, I don’t even think I have the profile of a typical politician, but I accepted because I think it is important that there are trans people who show their faces. In addition, the message of my social networks will have much more force if a political party like the PSOE supports me. I contribute my grain of sand but I have my job, I don’t get a penny from politics, “he emphasizes.
Dani gets serious and takes a deep breath when we ask her about the Trans Law, which the Government has just approved and which has put a sector of feminism on a war footing. “She is a much needed law especially for the issue of gender self-determination, so that we are free and play on equal terms. If I feel like a woman, why do I have to go through a psychological tribunal?“, he wonders. And as for the criticism, he assures that they come from a “small group of terf feminists that exclude trans women from the struggle of feminism. But it is a very small group”, ditch.
We leave the politics and return to the book. Recently operated – she also uploaded a video of her vaginoplasty to her account, not suitable for the squeamish – four publishers contacted her and she decided to narrate her story. “I wanted to convey a positive message, become a reference for other young girls, something that I didn’t have. Transsexuality has always been surrounded by sleaze, drama and prostitution. I wanted to tell the story of a normal girl, university, empowered and happy”Explain.
She was lucky to grow up in a family that has supported her “200 percent”, from their parents to their grandmothers. When I was a child I asked the Kings for Barbies and they brought them to them. “They thought that the child had turned out to be a sissy, my father never put a ball in my hands or took away my dolls. They accepted me”. When she reached adolescence, she confessed to them that she was a girl. They also supported her, although she confesses that they were afraid, she saw the image of La Veneno in her head.
–He began his transition when he arrived in Madrid to study journalism. There she discovered the social chronicle, -she worked as an editor in the magazine Heart and in Slvame and has been about to go to survivors– to many celebrities and the Madrid pijero. “I like Cayetanos, I don’t know how I do it, but I always end up with right-wing guys! My last romance has been a Vox boy from Granada… I’ve been with him for six months, he’s left me but I’m still in love, what are we going to do to him,” she confesses.
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Daniela has had many stories with celebrities, including a tennis player with whom she has been in a relationship for years. “She has met Me with a penis, without a penis, with boobs and without boobs. I am very fond of her, we are united by a thread.” also a “very famous” rider who asked him not to have surgerysoccer players “to give and sell” of the first division and even some royal. Spanish? “Yes, hahaha, in posh circles and at their parties you find everything.”
Y in New York, where he spent a season, ended up revolutionizing the group of Spaniards – also posh – in which he moved. “It was a lot of fun, I hooked up a lot, but you realize the hypocrisy of society because they had sex with me without any problem, but a relationship… that’s where the buts began.”
The book ends with Daniela in the operating room. Will there be a second part? “I hope so. And maybe even a series. Now I flirt more than ever because I don’t have to explain myself,” she concludes.
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