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Just call them "Wachowski sisters". They consider themselves both women and it's not hurting anyone to not misgender them.

I never heard of Andy identifying as female, but the point is that, they were the Wichowski brothers when this game came out, the game refers to them as such, and they introduce themselves as Andy and Larry when they interupt the game.

Best, most neutral way of putting it is probably just "the Wachowskis."

Call them 'the Wachowski siblings'. Typically when referring to a transgender person you use their new name and pronouns to refer to things they did in the past, i.e. Caitlyn Jenner won an Olympic medal. (Unless their preferences are different, of course.)

Caitlyn Jenner is a bad example, she's one of those who says to call her Bruce up to the sex change. She also did a few reality shows, where their biological sex at the time is used, due to us being unable to tell how much of it is real and how much scripted. "The Wichowski's" are probably the best thing to call them.

Most of the other pages I've seen mentioning them call them "the Wachowski Siblings", so that seems to be the most logical wording to use.

We trope works, not people. Within the work, they are brothers.

However, we also have an obligation to avoid terms that could lead to edit wars, so "Wachowski siblings", non-proper-noun and non-gendered, is what I'd prefer.

@~Chaotic Queen: Just to clarify, Lilly Wachowski came out in March via a local LGBTQ paper, after The Daily Mail tried to blackmail her into an exclusive.

The done thing is to refer to a transgender person by their preferred name/pronouns retroactively (since they were technically being misgendered at the time, there was just no way it could have been known), but gender neutral terms where they're available's probably the least drama inducing option.

Personally I don't think it makes sense, but yes, the normal thing to do is retroactively refer to him or her by their preferred gender and name.

My issue is that, in a vacuum, as far as the work itself is concerned, it can be horribly confusing if the work refers to someone by name and our writeup uses a completely different name. Many people aren't aware of the behind-the-scenes reasons for the change, so when I add examples I prefer to mention that the creator was known by their original name at the time.

In this case we have the nice and neutral Wachowski siblings, but we don't always have that luxury.

Alright, I edited it to say siblings. I honestly have my own opinion on subjects like this, but this isn't the place to discuss it.

^^In cases where there is no convenient neutral term, one solution might be to clarify the name the person used in that work, just as one would clarify which character an actor played or clarify if an actor was credited by something other than their current screen name. E.g., when referring to something the real person did associated with the work: "Jane Smith (appearing as Bob Smith)..." or "Jane Smith (credited as Bob Smith)..." It's a little more complicated if referring to something their "character" did in the work where the original gender is important, e.g., "The episode centered around Bob Smith (portrayed by Jane Smith, then credited as Bob Smith) worrying he'd gotten Susie Doe pregnant."—a little wordier, but still identifies the pkayers correctly without misgendering the real person.

Yeah, that is my preferred solution.

That's a pretty good idea.