Second Wachowski comes out as transgendered woman

Source: USA Today


Lilly Wachowski, one half of the notoriously private, movie-making sibling team behind the Matrix movies, has come out as a transgender woman — but alleges it wasn't on her own timetable.

She says she went public now to pre-empt getting outed against her will by Britain's Daily Mail newspaper in a story she imagined would bear a headline like "Sex change shocker: Wachowski brothers now sisters!"

The 48-year-old was adamant that her story not be told by The DailyMail.com, which had printed a December 2012 op-ed piece by Richard Littlejohn that questioned whether transgender people belong in elementary school classrooms. Lucy Meadows, the subject of that story, committed suicide four months later. Michael Singleton, the coroner in the Meadows case, accused the paper of "character assassination" and shamed the reporters present at a May 2013 press conference.

"So, yeah, I'm transgender," Lilly wrote in an open letter posted on the website of her hometown's LBGT media outlet Windy City Times. "And yeah, I've transitioned."

“I knew at some point I would have to come out publicly,” she explained, noting that tabloids had previously threatened to run the story. “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.”









Read more: http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/people/2016/03/09/matrix-director-wachowski-comes-out-as-transgender/81520588/

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For those not familiar with the UK tabloid press, Lily was perfectly justified in NOT wanting Richard Littlejohn to out her. Littlejohn is one of the vilest life forms in the British press.