Former gospel singer Giotta A, now called Ella, whose talent was revealed as a child on Raul Gil’s program, was identified as a transgender woman in 2022, showing fans that she has always considered herself to be female.

At the age of 24, the first step was to adopt the social name Ella Viana de Olanda, although bureaucracy and protocols delayed the process. Now she is moving on, and after much deliberation and medical supervision, she has taken another step in her transition by performing facial and body feminization surgeries.

Ella came to Santa Catarina to undergo feminization surgery – Photo: Reproduction/ND

The operations were performed in Blumenau, in the Itajai Valley, at the Transgender Center of Brazil, one of the largest private clinics in the country, a benchmark in the treatment of transgender patients.

The procedures lasted four hours, and the doctor was responsible for them. José Carlos Martins Jr. is an internationally renowned Brazilian physician who has operated on over 500 transgender patients and is the author of the only book in Portuguese on gender-based surgery.

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Transgender People: A Health Guide for a Safe Transition has already been translated into Spanish and will be released in English in New York City in May 2023.

According to Martins, feminization surgeries, when shown, provide a reading of a new identity as they allow for more feminine contours and tend to produce expressive results.

“Surgeries included forehead recontouring, facial bone contouring, nose contouring, and a primary breast prosthesis, and all procedures went well. In about ten days, the patient will be discharged and undergo another examination before returning home,” the doctor explained. Martins.

Ella is not hiding her joy after the operations in Santa Catarina – Video: Reproduction/ND

Ella does not hide her happiness from the procedures. “Because I came out as gay in 2020, I felt like I needed more. To become a woman was a liberation, and to see these changes in the mirror is an achievement.”

Still playing gospel music, Ella nominated her album Geração Jesus for a Grammy Award in 2014. The singer continues her musical career, where she recently released a new album “La Dracula”, which is already out.