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 Daily Mail released its own statement, denying any attempts to coerce Lilly into revealing her transition and denying that they outed Meadows or played any role in her death.

Ms Wachowski herself says, we were not the first media organization to approach her and we made absolutely clear at several points in the conversation that we were only interested in reporting the story if and when she was happy for us to do so and with her cooperation, the Daily Mail said in a statement.

Together, the duo also produced V for Vendetta, Speed Racer and Jupiter Ascending, and created the Netflix series Sense8.