Vivian Jenna Wilson, Elon Musk鈥檚 estranged daughter, publicly refuted several recent anti-trans statements her Tesla CEO and X owner father has made about her.
Wilson, who is transgender, on Thursday called a story Musk told about her on X 鈥渆ntirely fake.鈥�
Musk posted on Monday that Wilson was 鈥渂orn gay and slightly autistic鈥� and added that as a child, she would 鈥減ick out clothes for me to wear like a jacket and tell me it was 鈥榝abulous!鈥欌��
In her response on Threads, Wilson, 20, called the depiction an untrue gay stereotype.
鈥淚 never picked out jackets for him to wear and I was most certainly not calling them 鈥榝abulous鈥� because literally what the (f**k). I did not use the word fabulous when I was four because once again I would like to reiterate鈥� I was four,鈥� Wilson said.
She added that Musk 鈥渄oesn鈥檛 know what I was like as a child because he quite simply wasn鈥檛 there, and in the little time that he was I was relentlessly harassed for my femininity and queerness.鈥�
Musk in recent years has become increasingly 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, in which he claimed he was 鈥渢ricked鈥� into signing medical documents for Wilson鈥檚 transition, which he said happened during the Covid-19 pandemic. After her transition, the billionaire said, he 鈥渧owed to destroy the woke mind virus.鈥�
Musk has previously been criticized for his anti-trans comments. He has repeatedly made derogatory remarks about gender pronouns, including a now-deleted tweet from December 2020 that said, 鈥渨hen you put he/him in your bio,鈥� alongside a drawing of an 18th century soldier rubbing blood on his face in front of a pile of dead bodies and wearing a cap that read, 鈥淚 love to oppress.鈥�
In response to criticism over that tweet, Musk wrote on Twitter: 鈥淚 absolutely support trans, but all these pronouns are an esthetic (sic) nightmare.鈥�
Under Musk鈥檚 leadership, X has rolled back safety protections for transgender people. And Musk last year declared the word 鈥渃isgender鈥� 鈥� which describes someone whose gender identity conforms with the sex they were assigned at birth and is often used in medical contexts 鈥� as a 鈥渟lur鈥� on the site that is automatically hit with content restrictions if directed at another person.
Musk has previously spoken about his daughter, including in the authorized biography written by journalist Walter Isaacson and published last year. In the book, the billionaire blamed his daughter鈥檚 transition in part on her time at a progressive, Los Angeles school.
In 2022, Wilson petitioned a California court to change her name and gender, saying she no longer wishes to be related to her father 鈥渋n any way, shape or form.鈥� But this week鈥檚 posts mark her strongest rebuke yet of Musk鈥檚 comments.
In the Peterson interview, Musk said he considers his child 鈥渄ead鈥� following her transition. In his X post, Musk also said Wilson was 鈥渘ot a girl.鈥�
Wilson posted a video to Threads on Wednesday clarifying that she is 鈥渇ine 鈥� doing well actually.鈥�
And in her Thursday posts, Wilson said that she is 鈥渓egally recognized as a woman in the state of California and I don鈥檛 concern myself with the opinions of those who are below me.鈥�
She ended by encouraging the billionaire to 鈥渢ouch some (fg) grass.鈥�
