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Vivian Jenna Wilson, Elon Musk’s estranged daughter, publicly refuted a number of latest anti-trans statements her Tesla CEO and X proprietor father has made about her.
Wilson, who’s transgender, on Thursday known as a narrative Musk advised about her on X “completely pretend.”
Musk posted on Monday that Wilson was “born homosexual and barely autistic” and added that as a baby, she would “pick garments for me to put on like a jacket and inform me it was ‘fabulous!’”
In her response on Threads, Wilson, 20, known as the depiction an unfaithful homosexual stereotype.
“I by no means picked out jackets for him to put on and I used to be most actually not calling them ‘fabulous’ as a result of actually what the (f**okay). I didn’t use the phrase fabulous once I was 4 as a result of as soon as once more I wish to reiterate… I used to be 4,” Wilson stated.
She added that Musk “doesn’t know what I used to be like as a baby as a result of he fairly merely wasn’t there, and within the little time that he was I used to be relentlessly harassed for my femininity and queerness.”
Musk lately has change into more and more enthralled with right-wing politics, sharing anti-immigration, anti-DEI and anti-trans posts and ideologies on X.
He described his shift in ideology in an interview with right-wing Canadian podcaster Jordan Peterson on Monday, wherein he claimed he was “tricked” into signing medical paperwork for Wilson’s transition, which he stated occurred through the Covid-19 pandemic. After her transition, the billionaire stated, he “vowed to destroy the woke thoughts virus.”
Musk has beforehand been criticized for his anti-trans feedback. He has repeatedly made derogatory remarks about gender pronouns, together with a now-deleted tweet from December 2020 that stated, “while you put he/him in your bio,” alongside a drawing of an 18th century soldier rubbing blood on his face in entrance of a pile of useless our bodies and carrying a cap that learn, “I like to oppress.”
In response to criticism over that tweet, Musk wrote on Twitter: “I completely assist trans, however all these pronouns are an esthetic (sic) nightmare.”
Below Musk’s management, X has rolled again security protections for transgender individuals. And Musk final yr declared the phrase “cisgender” — which describes somebody whose gender identification conforms with the intercourse they had been assigned at start and is usually utilized in medical contexts — as a “slur” on the location that’s routinely hit with content material restrictions if directed at one other individual.
Musk has beforehand spoken about his daughter, together with within the approved biography written by journalist Walter Isaacson and revealed final yr. Within the e book, the billionaire blamed his daughter’s transition partly on her time at a progressive, Los Angeles college.
In 2022, Wilson petitioned a California courtroom to vary her title and gender, saying she not needs to be associated to her father “in any method, form or kind.” However this week’s posts mark her strongest rebuke but of Musk’s feedback.
Within the Peterson interview, Musk stated he considers his baby “useless” following her transition. In his X submit, Musk additionally stated Wilson was “not a woman.”
Wilson posted a video to Threads on Wednesday clarifying that she is “advantageous … doing nicely truly.”
And in her Thursday posts, Wilson stated that she is “legally acknowledged as a girl within the state of California and I don’t concern myself with the opinions of those that are beneath me.”
She ended by encouraging the billionaire to “contact some (f*****g) grass.”