Wed 9 Mar 2016 In: International News View at Wayback View at NDHA
Lilly Wachowski, one half of the filmmaker duo formally known as “the Wachowski brothers” has come out as transgender, following her sister Lana who came out as trans in 2012. Filmmaker Lilly Wachowski Co-director of The Matrix and Sense8, came out in a letter to the Windy City Times after other media outlets threatened to out her. Wachowski wrote; “I’m transgender. And yeah, I’ve transitioned” and says “the ‘news’ has almost come out a couple of times”, with one tabloid outlet sending a writer to her house and telling her that she had to sit down with him for an interview. She says; “Being transgender is not easy. We live in a majority-enforced gender binary world. This means when you're transgender you have to face the hard reality of living the rest of your life in a world that is openly hostile to you. “I am one of the lucky ones. Having the support of my family and the means to afford doctors and therapists has given me the chance to actually survive this process. “Transgender people without support, means and privilege do not have this luxury. And many do not survive. In 2015, the transgender murder rate hit an all-time high in this country. A horrifying disproportionate number of the victims were trans women of color. These are only the recorded homicides so, since trans people do not all fit in the tidy gender binary statistics of murder rates, it means the actual numbers are higher.” Read her full letter here.
Credit: GayNZ.com Daily News staff
First published: Wednesday, 9th March 2016 - 4:15pm