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Musk’s transphobic remarks came on the same day his estranged daugher, who is also a transgender, called him a “pathetic man-child” for his anti trans stance.
Elon Musk’s remarks came after a spate of attacks on Tesla cars. (Photo Credits: Instagram)
Tech billionaire Elon Musk insinuated that transgender people were behind the recent attacks on Tesla stores, blaming “hormone injections” for “extreme emotional volatility” that caused a rise in transgender violence across the country.
Musk made the transphobic remarks on the same day his estranged daughter Vivian Jenna Wilson, who is a transgender, called him a “pathetic man-child” during an interview with a US media outlet. Hours later, Musk reshared a post which said that three out of four people arrested in the Tesla attacks were transgender or non-binary.
Taking to X, Musk said, “What are the statistics on trans violence? The probability of a trans person being violent appears to be vastly higher than non-trans. Hormone injections cause extreme emotional volatility. That is simply a fact.”
After three people were charged for using Molotov cocktails to set fire to Tesla cars and vandalising Tesla stores, Musk said trans violence is “extremely far above normal levels”.
A self-described “free speech absolutist,” Musk has used X to repeatedly attack immigrants and transgender people. A staunch Trump ally, Musk has voiced disapproval of diversity hiring programmes and his Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) threatened to pull federal funding for public schools and universities that failed to end DEI programmes.
‘Don’t Give A F*** About Him’: Musk’s Daughter
In an interview with Teen Vogue, Musk’s estranged daughter spoke about his attitude towards trans people and called him a “pathetic man child”. Wilson said she often learns about Musk’s actions from the news.
“I don’t give a f**k about him. I really don’t. It’s annoying that people associate me with him. I just don’t have any room to care anymore,” she said. “He’s a pathetic man-child. Why would I feel scared of him?… I don’t give a f**k how much money anyone has. I don’t. He owns Twitter. Okay. Congratulations.”
“The Nazi salute sh*t was insane. Honey, we’re going to call a fig a fig, and we’re going to call a Nazi salute what it was. That sh*t was definitely a Nazi salute. The crowd is equally to blame, and I feel like people are not talking about that. That crowd should be denounced,” she added.
This is hardly the first time Wilson has spoken out against her father. She has previously described Musk as a cold and narcissistic father, claiming he was an absent parent who did not support her transition. She claimed that the billionaire harassed her as a young child over her effeminate traits.
Musk’s ‘Woke Mind Virus’ Jibe
Last year, Musk took to his X platform to say that Wilson was “born gay and slightly autistic,” adding that, as a child, she would “pick out clothes for me to wear like a jacket and tell me it was ‘fabulous!’”, CNN reported.
A few days later, in an interview with Jordan Peterson, Musk said his son was killed by the “woke mind virus”, accusing Wilson of adopting extreme ideologies. “My son Xavier is dead, killed by the woke mind virus … so I vowed to destroy the woke mind virus after that,” he said.
Wilson responded sharply by accusing Musk for spreading misinformation, saying that his July 2024 X post was “entirely fake” before adding “literally none of this ever happened.” After she announced her departure from the US following President Donald Trump’s election victory, Musk again said that the “woke virus killed my son”.
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