Elon Musk said his trans child was ‘dead.’ She’s calling him out.

The Tesla CEO said he was “tricked” into approving gender-affirming care for his child in an interview with Jordan Peterson.

Tension between billionaire tech mogul Elon Musk and his estranged, transgender daughter Vivian Wilson spilled into public view this week after she spoke out to counter her father’s claims that she is “dead — killed by the woke mind virus.”
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In an interview with Jordan Peterson, Musk alleged he had been “tricked” into approving gender-affirming care for Wilson at 16 and had subsequently “lost” his son. The experience, he said, made him an ardent opponent of gender-affirming care and fueled his quest to “destroy the woke mind virus.”

On X after the interview, Musk said that his child was born “gay and slightly autistic” and claimed these traits “contribute to gender dysphoria.” Wilson shot back soon after on Threads, dismissing her father’s characterization of her childhood as “entirely fake.” She criticized him for peddling harmful stereotypes about trans and queer people in “an attempt to garner sympathy points.”

“He doesn’t know what I was like as a child because he quite simply wasn’t there,” the 20-year-old said in one post. And when her father was present, Wilson said, he “relentlessly harassed” her for her “femininity and queerness.”

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