Have to wonder: Are we living in the Matrix right now?

Creators of the iconic ‘Matrix’ films then and now. The Wachowski brothers both transitioned to “women”: Larry (left) to Lana and Andy to Lily.

I could almost, not quite, but almost see a very pretty, effeminate man with fine features wanting to transition to a pretend woman. Or a very butch, masculine appearing woman wanting to transition to a pretend man. I understand that there have always been men who are fascinated with women’s clothing and mannerisms, à la Bruce Jenner. However this very recent and troubling thing of boys and girls wanting to permanently, surgically alter themselves and take dangerous steroids (e.g., the sex hormones Testosterone or Estrogen) and puberty blockers is a sign of mental/emotional distress and needs to be treated as such.

These two Wachowski brothers, particularly Andy, pretending to be women is not a good look. It is obviously a mental illness and should be treated as such. Condoning this nonsense is no different than encouraging a man to pursue his pedophilia fetish instead of everyone telling him to seek treatment and avoid prison.

Lana Wachowski

Birth name: Laurence (Larry) Wachowski. Birth sex: male. Birth date: June 21, 1965, age 60.

Lilly Wachowski

Birth name: Andrew (Andy) Wachowski. Birth sex: male. Birth date: December 29, 1967, age 57.

One half of the filmmaking duo known as The Wachowskis, Lana Wachowski and her younger sister Lilly were the creative minds behind the “Matrix” trilogy, one of the most imaginative and influential film series in Hollywood history. Conceived from a childhood steeped in fantasy novels and comic books, the “Matrix” films combined martial arts action with literary and cinematic references and a wide array of world religious and philosophical tenets. The result was a massively popular trio of films that largely redefined the action genre and CGI effects for a new generation of moviegoers.

Wachowski continued to release big-screen epics in its wake, scripting the comic adaptation “V for Vendetta” (2005) and directing “Speed Racer” (2008), ambitious epic fantasy “Cloud Atlas” (2012), science fiction action-adventure “Jupiter Ascending” (2015) and futuristic TV thriller “Sense8” (Netflix 2015-17), maintaining her status as one of Hollywood’s most imaginative and inventive writer-directors.

(L-R) Tom Tykwer, Lana Wachowski and Andy Wachowski attend the ‘Cloud Atlas’ Germany Premiere at CineStar on November 5, 2012 in Berlin, Germany. Andreas Rentz/Getty Images

Filmmaker Lilly Wachowski, best known for co-directing “The Matrix” trilogy, announced this week that she is a transgender woman.

March 8, 2016 – by Tracy Baims – Windy City Times

Filmmaker Lilly Wachowski, best known for co-directing “The Matrix” trilogy, announced this week that she is a transgender woman.

Lilly, formerly known as Andy, made the announcement four years after her sibling Larry Wachowski announced he was transitioning to become Lana.

Lilly chose to come out after she claims she was threatened by a Daily Mail reporter who knocked on her door and asked to do an exclusive interview about her transition. Arguably the most high-profile person to come out at transgender since Caitlyn Jenner, Lilly’s announcement raises questions about the role of the public and media in outing an individual, especially one who has not led as public a life as someone like Jenner.

The news also raises questions about how rare it is for two siblings to be transgender and what the latest science reveals about the possible biological underpinnings of being transgender.

How Wachowski Siblings Lilly & Lana Supported Each Other Through Their Transitions

“My biggest fears were all about losing my family. Once they accepted me, everything else has been a piece of cake,” Lana has said about transitioning

By Lindsay Kimble – Published on March 9, 2016 – People Magazine

Lindsay Kimble, a real woman, is the Executive Editor, News at PEOPLE. She have been working at PEOPLE for seven years. Her work has previously appeared in POPSUGAR, Us Weekly and Entertainment Weekly.

The Wachowskis are siblings, partners in Hollywood, and, most important, each other’s support system.

Lilly Wachowski, 48, came out as transgender on Tuesday, saying that she feels lucky “having the support of my family.” Lilly’s sister Lana, directing partner for films like The Matrix trilogy and 2015’s Jupiter Ascending, is also a transgender woman.

While the pair’s journey to and through Hollywood success has been an interesting one, they were always by each other’s sides.

As children, Lana and Lilly grew up with their two sisters in Chicago. Early on, the pair developed an affinity for film and would spend hours with their parents at the cinema.

It was during her youth, while in third grade, that Lana first became conscious of her gender, she told The New Yorker in 2012.

“I have a formative memory of walking through the girls’ line and hesitating, knowing that my clothes didn’t match,” Lana said of Catholic school. “But as I continued on I felt I did not belong in the other line, so I just stopped in between them. I stood for a long moment with everyone staring at me, including the nun. She told me to get in line. I was stuck — I couldn’t move. I think some unconscious part of me figured I was exactly where I belonged: betwixt.”

After college, Lana and Lilly started a construction business while still indulging their love of writing for film, they told The New Yorker. Following their success, first with Assassins, and then Bound, the construction was left behind — and Lana was feeling less and less like “Larry.”

It was on the set of the second and third parts of The Matrix trilogy that the then-recently separated Lana told her family she was transgender.

“For years, I couldn’t even say the words ‘transgendered’ or ‘transsexual,’ “Lana told The New Yorker. “When I began to admit it to myself, I knew I would eventually have to tell my parents and my brother and my sisters. This fact would inject such terror into me that I would not sleep for days. I developed a plan that I worked out with my therapist. It was going to take three years. Maybe five. A couple of weeks into the plan, my mom called.”

But her family, including mom Lynne and sister Lilly, who was then going by the name Andy, were on board. (“Having good parents is just like the lottery,” she said in 2012.)

“My biggest fears were all about losing my family. Once they accepted me, everything else has been a piece of cake,” she said.

The famously private pair, who also co-directed Cloud Atlas and created the Netflix series Sense8, often avoid premieres and press (Lana insisted during a 2012 speech that it has nothing to do with her gender), with Lilly revealing this week that she finds “talking about my art frustratingly tedious and talking about myself a wholly mortifying experience.”

Regardless, she said, “I knew at some point I would have to come out publicly. You know, when you’re living as an out transgender person it’s … kind of difficult to hide.”

She shared in a statement to the Windy City Media Group on Wednesday that she decided to speak out.

“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,” she said. “We need to elevate the dialogue beyond the simplicity of binary. Binary is a false idol.”

In addition to Lana’s guidance, Lilly said that she is grateful to have “the means to afford doctors and therapists” to help her “survive this process.”