{"id":197426,"date":"2016-03-09T11:20:41","date_gmt":"2016-03-09T11:20:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=197426"},"modified":"2016-03-09T11:20:41","modified_gmt":"2016-03-09T11:20:41","slug":"second-wachowski-sibling-comes-out-as-transgender","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=197426","title":{"rendered":"Second Wachowski sibling comes out as transgender"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The second half of the directing duo known as the Wachowskis has come out as transgender.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Lilly Wachowski, 48, sibling of Lana Wachowski, 50, issued a statement to Windy City Times that begins, “SEX CHANGE SHOCKER\u2014WACHOWSKI BROTHERS NOW SISTERS!!!”<\/p>\n

The Times reports an outlet threatened to out the younger Wachowski, which led to the announcement, which, Lilly writes, she had been anticipating with “dread and\/or eye rolling exasperation.”<\/p>\n

“The ‘news’ has almost come out a couple of times,” Wachowski writes. “Each was preceded by an ominous email from my agent — reporters have been asking for statements regarding the ‘Andy Wachowski gender transition’ story they were about to publish.”<\/p>\n

Wachowski goes on to recount an incident in which a reporter from the Daily Mail showed up at her home to elicit an exclusive on her gender transition.<\/p>\n

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“After he had given me his card, and I closed the door it began to dawn on me where I had heard of the Daily Mail,” Wachowski writes. “It was the ‘news’ organization that had played a huge part in the national public outing of Lucy Meadows, an elementary school teacher and trans woman in the UK.”<\/p>\n

Wachowski decided instead to come out on her own terms.<\/p>\n

“So yeah,” she writes. “I’m transgender.”<\/p>\n

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Source:\u00a0HollyWood Reported<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The second half of the directing duo known as the Wachowskis has come out as transgender. Lilly Wachowski, 48, sibling of Lana Wachowski, 50, issued a statement to Windy City Times that begins, “SEX CHANGE SHOCKER\u2014WACHOWSKI BROTHERS NOW SISTERS!!!” The Times reports an outlet threatened to out the younger Wachowski, which led to the announcement, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-197426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-showbiz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=197426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197426\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=197426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=197426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=197426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}