Lilly Wachowski released a full statement on her transition.
Matrix co-director Lilly Wachowski, the younger half of the siblings directing duo, has come out as transgender just as sister Lana did in 2012. Lilly, 48, said she had not wanted to come out as yet but after a journalist from UK knocked on her door, she did not have an option but to open up.
"My sister Lana and I have largely avoided the press. I find talking about my art frustratingly tedious and talking about myself a wholly mortifying experience. I knew at some point I would have to come out publicly. You know, when you're living as an out transgender person it's ... kind of difficult to hide. I just wanted needed some time to get my head right, to feel comfortable. But apparently I don't get to decide this," Lilly, who was formerly known as Andy Wachowski, said in a statement to the Windy City Times, an LGBT weekly in Chicago.
Lilly said her identity was known to people close to her.
"So yeah, I'm transgender. And yeah, I've transitioned to my family, my friends and many people at work, all of whom have been cool about it. Yes, thanks to my fabulous sister they've done it before, but also because they're fantastic people," she said.
Lilly also wrote: "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."
You can read her full statement here.
The Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) responded to Lilly Wachowski’s statement. “GLAAD is thrilled that Lilly Wachowski is able to be her true and authentic self today, however, she should not have been forced to disclose her transgender identity before she was ready to do so,” said Nick Adams, GLAAD’s director of programs for Transgender Media.
GLAAD also put out publishing guidelines on the matter for journalists: “Journalists must learn that it is unacceptable to out a transgender person, in the same way it is unacceptable to out a person who is gay, lesbian, or bisexual.”
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