Second Wachowski sibling comes out as transgende
Story highlights
- Lilly Wachowski revealed she was transgender after a newspaper threatened to 'out her'
- With sister Lana, Wachowski created "The Matrix" trilogy
- In her statement, she also attacked anti-trans "bathroom bills" being pushed in several U.S. states
(The Hollywood Reporter)The second half of the directing duo known as the Wachowskis has come out as transgender.
Lilly Wachowski, 48, sibling of Lana Wachowski, 50, issued a statement to Windy City Times that begins, "SEX CHANGE SHOCKER—WACHOWSKI BROTHERS NOW SISTERS!!!"
The Times reports an outlet threatened to out the younger Wachowski, which led to the announcement, which, Lilly writes, she had been anticipating with "dread and/or eye rolling exasperation."
"The 'news' has almost come out a couple of times," Wachowski writes. "Each was preceded by an ominous email from my agent -- reporters have been asking for statements regarding the 'Andy Wachowski gender transition' story they were about to publish."
Wachowski goes on to recount an incident in which a reporter from the Daily Mail showed up at her home to elicit an exclusive on her gender transition.
"After he had given me his card, and I closed the door it began to dawn on me where I had heard of the Daily Mail," Wachowski writes. "It was the 'news' organization that had played a huge part in the national public outing of Lucy Meadows, an elementary school teacher and trans woman in the UK."
Wachowski decided instead to come out on her own terms.
"So yeah," she writes. "I'm transgender."
'We are prey'
Lilly cites one classic film — 1991's "The Silence of the Lambs" — as having "demonized and vilified" the transgender community for its depiction of the serial-killer character Jame "Buffalo Bill" Gumb, played in the film by Ted Levine. While the media has since come "a long way" in transgender acceptance, she writes, "so-called bathroom bills...do not keep children safe. [T]hey force trans people into using bathrooms where they can be beaten and/or murdered."
"We are not predators, we are prey," Wachowski says.
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