Elon Musk, the CEO of microblogging platform X, has opened up about his struggles with his son Xavier Alexander’s gender transition.
In April 2022, Xavier filed a request in court seeking to change his name to Vivian Jenna Wilson.
Xavier, who had turned 18 then — the age of consent in California — also asked the court to change his gender recognition from male to female.
“I no longer live with or wish to be related to my biological father in any way, shape or form,” he was quoted as saying.
Wilson was legally granted her name and gender change at the Santa Monica courthouse in California on June 22, 2022.
However, the Tesla and SpaceX CEO, in a recent interview with Jordan Peterson, shared his thoughts on doctors performing sex change procedures on children.
The 53-year-old said he was “tricked” into giving his permission for Xavier to take puberty blockers.
Puberty blockers, also known as hormone blockers, are medications used to delay the physical changes associated with puberty.
The medications work by inhibiting the release of sex hormones (testosterone and estrogen), thus halting the development of puberty-related features.
Musk said he was told Xavier might commit suicide if he did not receive the treatment.
He described the medication as “incredibly evil”, arguing that people promoting it “should be imprisoned”.
He also said he feels like he has “lost my son” while vowing to destroy what he refers to as the “woke mind virus”.
“It is evil. You are taking kids who are far below the age of consent. It is very possible for adults to manipulate children who are having an actual identity crisis into believing that they are the wrong gender,” he said.
“Well, it happened to one of my older boys. I was essentially tricked into signing documents for one of my older boys, Xavier. This was really before I had any understanding of what was going on, and we had COVID going on, so there was a lot of confusion.
“And I was told Xavier might commit suicide. It is incredibly evil and I agree with you that the people that are promoting this should go to prison. I was tricked into doing this. It wasn’t explained to me that puberty blockers are actually just sterilization drugs.
“I lost my son, essentially. They call it ‘deadnaming’ for a reason. The reason they call it ‘deadnaming’ is because your son is dead, 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’re making some progress.”
Musk has seven children with Justine Wilson, his first wife, to whom he was married from 2000 to 2008.
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