Elon Musk’s transgender daughter has rebuked claims made by her father that he was tricked by a “woke mind virus” into allowing her to transition.
Vivian Jenna Wilson, 20, branded the billionaire businessman an attention-seeker who was trying to distort the truth after he declared his daughter “not a girl” and figuratively “dead” this week.
Ms Wilson changed her name from Xavier to Vivian in June 2022 after she transitioned. In court filings at the time, she wrote: “I no longer live with or wish to be related to my biological father in any way, shape or form.”
Mr Musk said on Monday that his daughter, whom he still refers to as Xavier, was “born gay and slightly autistic, two attributes that contribute to gender dysphoria”.
“But he was not a girl,” he added.
The tech tycoon then vowed to drive out “the woke mind virus”, a dig at what he sees as political over-correctness and hysterical liberal ideals, from X, formerly Twitter, which he bought in 2022 for $44 billion (£37 million).
Ms Wilson in turn accused her father of being “desperate for attention and validation” in a lengthy post on Threads, X’s rival site owned by Mark Zuckerburg’s Meta.
“There’s a lot of stuff I need to debunk, but I want to start with what I find the funniest which is the notorious ‘slightly autistic’ tweet,” Ms Wilson wrote.
“This is entirely fake. Like, literally none of this ever happened. Ever. I don’t even know where he got this from.”
She accused Mr Musk, who is believed to have fathered 12 children, of making up claims because he never spent time with her as a child, writing: “He quite simply wasn’t there.”
In a subsequent post, Ms Wilson wrote: “I want to make one thing absolutely clear. I disowned him, not the other way around.”
Mr Musk, the chief executive of Tesla and Space X, also called what happened to his family “evil”.
In a Daily Wire interview with Jordan Peterson, a Canadian psychologist, this week, he claimed he had been told his child “might commit suicide” if not allowed to undergo gender transition.
“I was tricked into doing this. It wasn’t explained to me that puberty blockers are actually just sterilisation drugs. I lost my son, essentially.
“So my son Xavier is dead. Killed by the woke mind virus. So I vowed to destroy the woke mind virus after that. And we are making some progress.”
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