Elon Musk’s transgender daughter Vivian Jenna Wilson is speaking out after her father said she was “killed by the smart mind virus”. In her first interview, the 20-year-old described the billionaire as a cruel, absent parent.
“I think he was under the assumption that I wasn’t going to say anything and just let it go unchallenged,” Wilson said. NBC News. “Which I won’t do, because if you’re going to lie about me, like, blatantly to an audience of millions, I’m not going to let that slide.”
Wilson, who filed to legally change her name and gender when she turns 18 in 2022, revealed she hasn’t spoken to the Tesla CEO in nearly four years – but even growing up, she claimed he rarely present and described his demeanor as “cold.”
“He was there, I mean, maybe 10% of the time. That’s generous,” she said, adding that during these periods, he would pressure her to appear more masculine.
“I was in the fourth grade. We went on this road trip that I didn’t know was actually just a commercial for one of the cars — I don’t remember which one — and he kept yelling at me because my voice was so loud,” Wilson said. “It was cruel.”
“He’s very quick to anger,” added Wilson, one of six children Musk shares with ex-wife Justine Wilson. “He’s reckless and narcissistic.”
Wilson, who told the newspaper that she first came out as gay in the eighth grade, also denied Musk’s claim that he was “tricked” into authorizing peer-related medical care for Wilson when she was 16.
“He was not deceived in any way. He knew the full side effects,” she said, adding that her father read the medical records for the care at least twice.
“They save lives. Let’s not get this twisted,” added Wilson. “They definitely allowed me to flourish.”
wealth has reached out to Musk and Wilson for comment.
Elon Musk on the ‘dead name’
Musk, during a recent live interview with psychologist and conservative commentator Jordan Peterson on his X platform, misgendered Wilson, used her dead name (a transgender person’s birth name) and described her coming out as transgender as “killed by the virus of the intelligent mind.”
It was during this interview that the billionaire also claimed he was “tricked” into allowing Wilson to undergo transgender-related medical treatment for her when she was 16.
“I lost my son, basically,” he said. “They call it ‘fake name’ for a reason. The reason they call it a ‘dead name’ is because your son is dead.”
My conversation with @elonmusk. Live today at 3pm ET. https://t.co/RyaZFmvC8i
— Dr Jordan B Peterson (@jordanbpeterson) July 22, 2024
Since buying X, then known as Twitter, in 2022, Musk has been accused of turning the platform into a “toxic” environment for LGBTQ+ users after he rolled back some of the app’s sweeping regulations, including its ban on naming and misbehaving people.
Earlier this month, Musk also announced that he will move the headquarters of X and SpaceX to Texas, due to a ban in California on schools that trans children to their parents.
Musk told Peterson that Wilson’s gender transition has been the motivation behind his right-wing awakening: “I vowed to destroy the virus of the smart mind behind this, and we’re making some progress.”
Wilson: ‘I’ve been reduced to a happy little stereotype’
In another X post, Musk said that Wilson was “born gay and a little autistic” and that at age 4, she loved musicals and used the exclamation “brilliant!” to describe his jacket.
In a series of posts on X’s archival social media platform Threads, Wilson insisted that “None of this ever happened” and that her father must have gone to the “Milo Yiannopoulis school of gay stereotypes” when choosing his words. his.
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“He doesn’t know what I was like as a kid because he just wasn’t there,” she doubled down. “And in the short time he was around, I was teased non-stop for my femininity and queerness.”
“I’ve been reduced to a happy little stereotype,” she continued. “I think it says a lot about how he views queer people and kids in general.”