Matrix Director Lilly Wachowski Comes Out as Transgender
In an essay published in The Windy City Times, the 48-year-old Lilly, who formerly worked under the name Andy, explains that she decided to issue a public statement after several news outlets, most notably the Daily Mail, threatened to out her.
Lilly acknowledged the dangers to outing transgender people against their will in her essay, citing the Daily Mail's treatment of elementary school teacher Lucy Meadows, who committed suicide three months after the paper's article on her was published.
[...] the reality, my reality is that I've been transitioning and will continue to transition all of my life, through the infinite that exists between male and female as it does in the infinite between the binary of zero and one.
Together, the duo also produced V for Vendetta, Speed Racer and Jupiter Ascending, and created the Netflix series Sense8.