Elon Musk’s daughter Vivian has hit back at her father’s comments that she was “killed by the woke mind virus”, and has received support from Musk’s ex-partner Grimes.
During a recent interview that the Tesla and X CEO did with the conservative commentator and psychologist Jordan Peterson, Musk spoke about his estranged daughter Vivian Wilson, whom he repeatedly deadnamed and misgendered.
Wilson, 20, officially changed her name in 2022 to reflect her gender identity as a trans woman and to take her mother Justine Wilson’s surname.
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— Dr Jordan B Peterson (@jordanbpeterson) July 22, 2024
Musk claimed in the interview that he had been “tricked” into signing the paperwork to allow Vivian to use puberty blockers, which he described as “actually just sterilisation drugs”. He added that his “son” had been “killed” by the “woke mind virus” and that he had “lost his son”.
He later reiterated the claims on X, adding that Vivian was “born gay and slightly autistic, two attributes that contribute to gender dysphoria. I knew that from when he was about 4 years old and he would pick out clothes for me to wear like a jacket and tell me it was “fabulous!”, as well as his love of musicals & theatre. But he was not a girl.”
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Yesterday (July 25), Wilson responded to the comments on Threads. “There’s a lot of stuff I need to debunk which I will get to don’t worry, but I want to start with what I find the funniest which is the notorious ‘slightly autistic’ tweet,” she wrote.
“This is entirely fake,” Wilson wrote in a second post. “Like, literally none of this ever happened. Ever. I don’t even know where he got this from. My best guess is that he went to the Milo [Yiannopoulos] school of gay stereotypes, just picked some at random and said ‘eh- good enough’ in a last-ditch attempt to garner sympathy points when he is so obviously in the wrong even in his own fucking story.”
Wilson went on to assert that “I disowned him, not the other way around,” referring to the moment she legally changed her name to have ‘Musk’ replaced.
She also replied to Musk’s claim that she had been “killed” by saying, “I look pretty good for a dead bitch”.
Her retort to the comments about loving “musicals and theatre,” Wilson added: “This entire thing is completely made up and there’s a reason for this. He doesn’t know what I was like as a child because he quite simply wasn’t there, and in the little time that he was I was relentlessly harassed for my femininity and queerness.”
Wilson has since given an interview to NBC News, in which she reiterated her stance on the situation.
“I think he was under the assumption that I wasn’t going to say anything and I would just let this go, unchallenged,” she said. “Which I’m not going to do because if you’re going to lie about me, like, blatantly to an audience of millions, I’m not just gonna let that slide.”
She recalled one particularly traumatic incident from her childhood. “I was in fourth grade. We went on this road trip that I didn’t know was actually just an advertisement for one of the cars — I don’t remember which one — and he was constantly yelling at me viciously because my voice was too high,” Wilson said. “It was cruel.”
I love and am forever endlessly proud of Vivian.
— 𝖦𝗋𝗂𝗆𝖾𝗌 ⏳ (@Grimezsz) July 26, 2024
I am not Christian but I respect ur Christian God and have Christian friends and sometimes join them for their holidays or heed their teachings. But I do not hold this world view, and I too enjoy changing my body with tattoos and stuff. But if we're made in gods image, and he…
— 𝖦𝗋𝗂𝗆𝖾𝗌 ⏳ (@Grimezsz) July 26, 2024
Musk’s former partner Grimes has also appeared to add her support to Wilson. Writing on X, she said: “I love and am forever endlessly proud of Vivian.”
Earlier this month, Musk said that he was moving SpaceX and X out of California because of new laws that had been brought by Governor Gavin Newsom in to protect trans students.