Globo actress and trans mother, Isis Broken says she dealt with discrimination after her husband got pregnant

Singer and actress Isis Broken, 29, says she considers herself the happiest and most fulfilled person in the world when it comes to motherhood. The performer of the successful shopkeeper Corina from “No Rancho Fundo” (Globo) is the mother of little Apolo, almost 3 years old, the result of her relationship with rapper Lourenzo Gabriel, known as Aqualien, 26.

However, until this feeling arrived, she had to go through a lot of suffocation, anguish and embarrassment. Isis, a trans woman, had the heir naturally with the musician, who is a trans man and became pregnant with her during the pandemic, in 2021. However, the way they were both treated prenatally until the birth, she says, did not it was not cool.

“We suffered very strong transphobia. The clinics we attended in the SUS [Sistema Único de Saúde] of Sergipe were extremely oppressive, unworthy places. We were not validated, our bodies were harassed. I remember that I called 13 clinics in my state and, when I said that my husband had gotten pregnant, they hung up on me,” she says to F5. Isis also claims that no one respected the couple’s social names and they used their Christian names on bracelets.

At another point, when Aqualien finally managed to do an ultrasound, Isis states that once again a moment of pure prejudice occurred. “One nurse asked me to show her the vagina. Another told us to go home and wait for the test results to see if the baby was ‘alive or dead'”, she recalls.

It was at that moment that the actress, already known in her region, decided to record everything and put it on the internet, in addition to registering a police report. At the time, the Aracaju Health Department said that it provided guidance to service providers and that at no time did it deny care to the couple. He also stated that the municipality was available to help.

That caught attention and took on national proportions. Actress Nanda Costa, who was pregnant with her twin daughters at the time, contacted her to offer help. Tainá Müller did the same. That was when she and Aqualien managed to travel to São Paulo, already eight months pregnant, to have their son in the city.

“Even with all this, we wanted to give birth through the SUS, as it was a revolutionary movement. It was important that they embraced our existence. I love the SUS, but the system is still transphobic and systematic”, he assesses.

Apolo was born, grew up and today, at almost 3 years old, receives an education free from labels and stigmas. “It’s naturalizing clothes and bodies. Sometimes, he takes my heels and puts them on, just like dad’s shoes. We’re naturalizing these constructions,” he explains.

Isis says that she is sometimes criticized, especially on social media, for using a neutral pronoun with Apolo — she refers to Apolo as her son. But that doesn’t bring her any more regrets, on the contrary.

“He doesn’t suffer prejudice. He has a father and a mother”, he says. “The other day I received a call from school. On the other end of the line was the teacher, who just wanted to praise me and say that she was very shocked by Apolo’s education. He’s an affectionate child. I’m not going to give him an oppressive gender education I want it to grow and transform, change or remain wherever it wants”, he warns.

On the professional side, Apolo’s mother is happy with the direction his career is taking. Accustomed since she was little to watching soap operas alongside her mother, today she can enjoy the privilege of making her debut and being on a 6pm show on the biggest broadcaster in the country.

In addition to her, there are trans people in all of the station’s time slots at the moment. Alan Oliveira is Babbo in “Família É Tudo” and Gabriela Medeiros plays Buba in the remake of “Renascer”.

“I’ve already signaled to Globo that Brazil needs a trans star in the house — and I want to be that star. Not just in soap operas, but in miniseries, at the forefront of entertainment,” she says, full of conviction in her potential.

“Having an Afro-indigenous trans woman as the star of the house represents a beautiful and progressive moment on screen and off”, adds the Sergipe native from Aracaju, who also continues to gain space with her songs with acidic and politicized lyrics, which transition into rap. , trap, sudden, prose and pop. Check out a sneak peek below.