The sisters Lana and Lily Wachowski have worked as a team throughout their film-making and producing careers, they are best known for their film The Matrix. The Wachowskis first film was 1996's Bound, still known as a lesbian film classic. They wrote, directed and produced their three-film Matrix series—as well as V for Vendetta, Speed Racer, Cloud Atlas, Jupiter Ascending and the sci-fi series Sense8. Both sisters are notoriously private, and beyond their creative influences, believe that their personal lives are irrelevant to their work as filmmakers. In October 2012, when Lana Wachowski received the Human Rights Campaign's Visibility Award, she revealed that once during her youth, she had considered suicide because of her feelings of confusion about identity. Lana said that, although she and Lilly had not publicly commented on her transitioning during the previous decade, it was not because she was ashamed of it, nor had she kept it a secret from her family and friends. Rather, she stated, the two are generally shy about the news media and prefer to maintain their privacy. "There are some things we do for ourselves, but there are some things we do for others.” She said. “I am here because when I was young, I wanted very badly to be a writer, I wanted to be a filmmaker, but I couldn't find anyone like me in the world and it felt like my dreams were foreclosed simply because my gender was less typical than others. If I can be that person for someone else, then the sacrifice of my private civic life may have value," as quoted in The Hollywood Reporter. Lily says this regarding her coming out as transgender: Being transgender is not easy. We live in a majority-enforced gender binary world. This means when you're transgender you have to face the hard reality of living the rest of your life in a world that is openly hostile to you. I am one of the lucky ones. Having the support of my family and the means to afford doctors and therapists has given me the chance to actually survive this process. Transgender people without support, means and privilege do not have this luxury. And many do not survive. In 2015, the transgender murder rate hit an all-time high in this country. A horrifying disproportionate number of the victims were trans women of color. These are only the recorded homicides so, since trans people do not all fit in the tidy gender binary statistics of murder rates, it means the actual numbers are higher. … Now, gender theory and queer theory hurt my tiny brain. The combinations of words, like freeform jazz, clang disjointed and discordant in my ears. I long for understanding of queer and gender theory but it's a struggle as is the struggle for understanding of my own identity. I have a quote in my office though by Jose Muñoz given to me by a good friend. I stare at it in contemplation sometimes trying to decipher its meaning but the last sentence resonates: "Queerness is essentially about the rejection of a here and now and an insistence on potentiality for another world."

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