Politics Alexia Herranz, the trans woman who did not get the guarantees to face Feijóo: "If you read this, call me"
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 has not been as easy as his name, but he admits that it has not been traumatic either.
Now, two years after the operation, she says that she is "happy, full and better than ever".
Daniela Requena
(30) has always lived her transsexuality so naturally and normally that she decided to
share her experience on Tik Tok.
The success has been enormous and Daniela Sirena, as she calls herself on networks,
accumulates more than 835,000 followers
on the platform and another 55,000 on Instagram.
Now, in addition, she has just published her first book,
Mama, I am a woman
(Editorial Planeta), where she 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 called me a travelo.
Everything I say in the book is true,
although I am trembling, because my father has started reading it and of course,
he will find out about how I lost my virginity at the age of 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 signed 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 stand up. 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 do not charge a penny from politics, "he emphasizes.
Dani becomes 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.
"It is a
very necessary law,
especially because of 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 court?
", she asks herself .
And as for the criticism, she assures that they come from a "small collective of
Terf feminists
who exclude trans women from the struggle of feminism. But it is a very small collective", she ditches her.
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We leave 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 transmit a positive message,
to become a
reference for other young girls,
something that I did not have. Transsexuality has always been surrounded by
squalor, drama and prostitution
. I wanted to tell the story of a
normal, empowered and happy college girl. "
, he explains.
She was lucky enough to grow up in a family that has supported her "200 percent",
from her parents to her grandmothers.
As a child, she asked the Kings for Barbies and they brought them to her.
"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.
She also supported him, although she confesses that they were afraid of her, the image of La Veneno came to her head.
Daniela, before the transition, with her father. CEDIDA
He began his transition when he arrived in Madrid to study Journalism.
There she discovered the social chronicle, -she worked as an editor in
Cuore
magazine and in
Save me
and has been about to go to
Survivors
- to many
celebrities
and the Madrid pijerío.
"I like Cayetanos, I don't know how I do it but I always end up with right-wing guys!
My last romance was a
boy from Vox de Granada...
I've been with him for six months, he left me but I'm still in love, what are we going for him to do," he confesses.
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."
She was also
a "very famous" rider who asked her not to have surgery
, soccer players "to give and sell" in the first division and
even some
royals
.
Spanish?
"Yes, hahaha, in posh circles and at their parties you find everything."
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And
in New York, where he spent a season, he
ended up revolutionizing the group of Spaniards - also posh - in which he moved.
"It was a lot of fun, I linked 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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