'Matrix' Filmmaker Lilly Wachowski Comes Out As Transgender
Lilly Wachowski of the famed filmmaking sibling duo has come out as transgender.
In an exclusive published Tuesday by the Windy City Times, Wachowski wrote her coming out was the culmination of a year-long saga of media outlets threatening to publish stories on her transition, including a recent incident when a Daily Mail reporter appeared on her doorstep. Throughout the powerful statement, she writes she made the choice to come out on her own terms in an effort to counter "demonized and vilified" portrayals of trans people in the media.
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