Lilly Wachowski First Enters The Public Eye At GLAAD Awards Since She Became A Woman

By R. Siva Kumar - 04 Apr '16 06:54AM

Lilly Wachowski stepped on stage at the 2016 GLAAD Media Awards. She was receiving the best drama series award for Netflix's "Sense8." It was the first time she was out in public, ever since she emerged as a transgender woman one month ago.

She was earlier called Andy. She was part of a directing team that brought out "The Matrix" trilogy with her sister Lana, who also became a transgender in July 2012.

"Okay, first of all... ta-da," Wachowski joked when she climbed up onto the stage.

"Tonight is a culmination of confluent events for me. This was something I became aware of shortly after receiving my invitation to tonight's affair. A sudden synchronism of time-space that included the 20-year anniversary of Bound, the trans day of visibility, National Women's Day and Pi Day, all occurring within a month's time concurrent with my own coming out, with the help of the fabulous people at GLAAD," she said.

"It's an excellent reminder that art is never static, and while the ideas of identity and transformation are critical components of our work, the bedrock that all ideas rest upon is love," Wachowski continued. "Love is a crucial thing for transgender people. It's a tether. For while our creativity can soar beyond a seemingly immutable biological gender designations, when faced with the rather simple proposition of whether or not we are lovable, our imagination falters. Too many of us end up on the wrong side of the existential question of love in oblivion. And so we ring that bell, not for everyone else's sake, bit for our own."

She had confessed on the red carpet, earlier in the night that she had got an attack of nerves, and wanted to follow her first instinct to escape from the attention she had got since she had become a trans.

"Every 'trans' instinct that I have is telling me to hide, telling me to run," she said. "My flight instinct is off the charts right now. But, I'm transgender, so you are not going to let it smother your life, so you have to fight against it. That's what is what I'm doing, [laughs] I'm in a battle right now. I'm battling."