‘The Matrix’ director transgender: Larry Wachowski now Lana

SFGate: the Daily Dish ^ | 7/31/12

[SmithL]

Director Larry Wachowski has publicly revealed that she is transgender and now goes by the name Lana in a new promo for her upcoming Tom Hanks film “Cloud Atlas.”

The 47-year-old moviemaker has undergone a sex change operation and now goes by the name Lana.

With her hair in pink dreadlocks, Wachowski introduced herself for the first time as a woman in a behind-the-scenes trailer for the new drama, saying, “Hi, I’m Lana.”

[SmithL]

Hooray for Hollyweird!

[FlingWingFlyer]

Freaks are a dime a dozen these days. This guy doesn’t impress me none.

[Beowulf9]

SNAFU

[shibumi]

Barf Bucket ready?

[GeronL]

He will always be a he, just a mutilated he

[Argus]

Speed Racer now makes sense.

[Albion Wilde]

Because he could:

[goron]

Wait, is this the 'before/after, or the after/before?"

[shibumi]

Mao Sugiyama has some great recipes for the "leftovers."

[Berlin_Freeper]

This is what they now need to do to keep their Hollweird careers going. Just putting on a dress is not enough. Next will be animal parts. Eventually they will advance to intelligent slime and live in their fancy backyard pools.

[goron]

So is she now a lesbian, or heterosexual?

[Stormdog]

“Hi, I’m Lana.”

Whatever you say, dude.

[dfwgator]

MRS. GARRISON
Hello doctor, looks like I need an abortion.

DOCTOR
...an abortion?

MRS. GARRISON
Yeah, I’ve got one growing inside me.
Now, are you gonna scramble its brains
or just vacuum it out? ...If you want
you can just scramble it and I’ll queef
it out myself.

DOCTOR
Mmister Garrison-

MRS. GARRISON
Mrs. Garrison.

DOCTOR
Mmrs. Garrison, you can’t have an abortion.

MRS. GARRISON
Don’t you tell me what I can and can’t
do with my body! A woman has a right
to choose!

DOCTOR
No, I mean you’re physically unable
to have an abortion, because you can’t
get pergnant.

MRS. GARRISON
But I missed my period.

DOCTOR
You can’t have periods either. You
had a sex change, Mr. Garrison, but
you don’t have ovaries or a womb. You
don’t produce eggs.

MRS. GARRISON
You mean, I’ll never know what it feels
like to have a baby growing inside me
and then scramble its brains and vacuum
it out?

DOCTOR
N-that’s right.

MRS. GARRISON
But I paid five thousand dollars to
be a woman. This would mean I I’m not
really a woman. Ih, I’m just a... a
I’m just a guy with a mutilated penis!

DOCTOR
Basically, yes.

MRS. GARRISON
...Oh boy, do I feel like a jackass.

[TChad]

Wait, is this the 'before/after, or the after/before?"

Good point. It would make more sense going the other way.

Tons of emotional and physical pain, a fortune in medical bills, all for -- that? Gulp.

I hope he finds peace of mind somehow.

[Hardraade]

So he took the Purple Pill?

[meatloaf]

I’d say he swallowed all of them.

[Rummyfan]

Sick f**k.....

[haroldeveryman]

Is that how he entered the matrix?

[F15Eagle]

Wow.

Well, Obama has a special political bent for such.

[DemforBush]

I'll stick with this Lana, thank you very much:

[Yardstick]

Director Larry Wachowski has publicly revealed that she is transgender

No doubt the SF Gate style guide says the gender of pronouns should be based on the subject's chosen sexual identity and not their DNA.

[DakotaGator]

Looks as if he spent a lot of money to become an ugly fake female.

[broken_arrow1]

The 47-year-old moviemaker has undergone a sex change operation and now goes by the name Lana.

Does that mean he cut off his wiener and had to get a new driver's license?

[Gaffer]

Does that mean he cut off his wiener and had to get a new driver's license?

We prefer to use the term "Anthony" around here.

[Salamander]

“has undergone a sex change operation “

Wow!

Have they finally perfected a technique that changes Y chromosomes to X chromosomes?!?

Amazing!

/s

[the invisib1e hand]

Pretty aggressive publicity stunt.

[Salamander]

Ya know...I’ve always thought I’d look great with a long, elegant tail...somewhat like that of a Saluki.

/s

[Smokin' Joe]

GiBLeT...

Somewhere in there...

[caver]

Maybe he/she should have spent a bit more money and bought a new face.

[Ann Archy]

OMG!!!!!

[samtheman]

Good one.

[ohiobushman]

It’s hair makes it look like Sideshow Bob’s sister!

[mountaineer1997]

Extra pathetic: that is the best look he could achieve with unlimited cash.

[Opinionated Blowhard]

Man, woman, whatever. Its still ugly as sin.

[depenzz]

Its good to have a thread like this at least once a day. There was one yesterday (don’t remember what it was) doesn’t matter, I laughted so hard my German shepherds got all excited, they thought I was crying.

[Thorliveshere]

I don’t know (or really want to know) much about the transgender lifestyle, but there are two transgender men who live in my area, both are over 40. Is this a common age of transgenderism? I mean, to me, it almost seems like a mid-life crisis type thing.

[prof.h.mandingo]

That’s Kathy Bates dude. She’s a man!, baby.

[Caipirabob]

I could cry. The man really needed help and I'm betting every door was closed on him. From the left "Be yourself, mutilate your body, you'll be happier..."

Unreal...just completely cerebrally non-processable unreal.

[Thorliveshere]

"No longer satisfied with being "Lana," Larry has a transpecies operation and becomes a lama..."



"I just wish I could lactate," bemoans Larry..er...Lama.

[commish]

Larry, I know what your thinking, “I should have took the Blue Pill”

[MHGinTN]

From what I read, so did half the males in Hollywood in her day. Too bad she and Wilt were from different eras, they could have been soulmates.

[libertarian27]

ROTFLOL! That's Great

Remember the guy that wants to be a Lizard?

[MinuteGal]

"I used to look like Al Franken-Stein, now I look like Lana Franken-Stein, thank god!

Leni

[Prospero]

From 2011-12-26

[EQAndyBuzz]

New MSNBC political contributor?

[shibumi]

What I wanna know is - What are they going to do about the movie credits?

I distinctly remember them saying “The Wachowski Brothers.”

[Salamander]

They’ll re-release the video with “O, Wachowski Brother, Where Art Thou?” now.

[TheOldLady]

DNA still male. Sorry that you were anally raped as a young boy and are now totally insane, “Lana,” but you are not and will never be a woman no matter how much you mutilate yourself.