Congratulations to the Wachowski Sisters!

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The second Wachowski sister has come out as trans! Following her sister Lana coming out publicly in 2012, Lilly has now announced she’s trans too.

Together they’re possibly best-known for directing the Matrix trilogy. They also wrote screenplays for other sci-fi blockbusters like Jupiter Ascending and Cloud Atlas – both amazing movies! They also wrote Netflix’s phenomenal Sense8.

Unlike Lana however, the circumstances under which Lilly has revealed her new identity have been controversial. She came out in a statement to Chicago’s Windy City Times, and in her statement said she’d been coerced by the media. A certain notorious publication we’ve all heard of:

Last night while getting ready to go out for dinner my doorbell rang. Standing on my front porch was a man I did not recognize.
‘This might be a little awkward,’ he said in an English accent.
I remember sighing.
He proceeded to explain he was a journalist from the Daily Mail.

Well, well, well. This probably doesn’t come a shock to anyone. Congratulations Daily Mail, for upholding your reputation. This really does take the biscuit though. While coercing someone to come out as transgender is regrettably legal (just), it’s morally reprehensible. However, Lilly is far stronger and cleverer than them, and is hopeful for the future:

Queerness is essentially about the rejection of a here and now and an insistence on potentiality for another world. So I will continue to be an optimist adding my shoulder to the Sisyphean struggle of progress and in my very being, be an example of the potentiality of another world.

Well said Lilly! We look forward to many more great films in the future. 

Oh by the way, the Daily Mail published their article, and here is the top-rated comment. Sums it all up really:

By Dylan Jones

 

 

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