Vivian Jenna Wilson, Elon Musk’s daughter, has filed documents to change her name and intends to distance herself from her billionaire Bond villain tech mogul father.
According to paperwork filed with Los Angeles County, Vivian—who turned 18 earlier this spring—is seeking to formalize her name change and legally declare her gender identity within the court system. As TMZ reports, she has given the following reason for the change:
“Gender Identity and the fact that I no longer live with or wish to be related to my biological father in any way, shape or form.”
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Though neither Elon or Vivian have made public comments about her transition or their relationship in the past, Musk has previously shared conflicting “support” of the trans community.
In summer 2020, the SpaceX entrepreneur bluntly tweeted, “Pronouns suck, ” which promoted his then partner, the pop musician Grimes, to respond, “I love you but please turn off your phone and give me a [call]. I cannot support hate. Please stop this. I know this isn’t your heart.”
Pronouns suck
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 25, 2020
Later that year, Musk tweeted that he “absolutely” supports the trans community but added that “all these pronouns are an esthetic nightmare.”
I absolutely support trans, but all these pronouns are an esthetic nightmare
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 16, 2020
Vivian’s court hearing for the name change is set for later this week.
inbama
LOL.
Elon Musk is dating a woman six years older than his trans daughter while he and former girlfriend Grimes are expecting a baby being carried by a surrogate – a baby they’ve promised will be raised “without gender.”
Meanwhile, Musk says he’s voting Republican and has moved his business to anti-union Texas where the state GOP has (1) condemned homosexuality as abnormal (2) declared Biden’s election illegitimate and (3) demanded that secession from the U.S. be put on the ballot.
This is all totally nuts, but estranging yourself from the world’s richest man? I don’t know who is encouraging Vivian to divorce her father, but I hope they have the means to afford her the lifestyle to which she is accustomed.
CatholicXXX
Those pronouns are a nightmare. They keep adding more and mode. They them zer Zhem tem tem.
LumpyPillows
Father’s crazy…apparently so are some of his offspring.
DBMC
@CatholicXXX
The pronouns people use is the least of our problems and not even the top 100 issues with the Catholic Church.
Prax07
I can’t stand Musk, he’s an absolute nutter, but I do agree with him on the ridiculousness of these other crazies and their pronouns.
DBMC
Why do you care so much about the pronouns of people you will probably never meet?
cs1900
“They” is such a difficult word for you to use? Hell, even “ze” is not that hard to incorporate into your vocabulary. Dude, my parents are in their 70s and have no problem using gender-neutral pronouns with their trans friends.
jackscott
Why does this article even matter? I agree, Elon isn’t someone I would want to be around. However, why would readers care about his kids? S/he can declare and be whoever. I just hope the big public stance also comes with distancing from the $ the father makes. Let the kid/young adult go make it on their own and then let’s see if there is a story at that point.
I’m all for folks getting the support and medical help needed if transitioning. However, it isn’t news… it’s between the individual, the Dr., and those they are close with (if they want to share). As readers, we don’t need to know everybody that is transitioning!
Mr. Stadnick
here here!
DBMC
Elon has made himself a spokesperson for anti-trans legislation. He is also one of the richest people in the world. It matters.
Ronbo
DMBC, can you possibly over-react more?
Compare him to Hitler and condemn him to hell or… a nice southern phrase “bless his heart”.
cc423
He just announced he would support DeSantis for President, so this is 100% understandable.
Max
he’s officially a moron now.
Chrisk
The funny thing is that the people that buy his shit are generally on the liberal side. California is the biggest market for his cars. I just don’t understand the paradox.
Diplomat
Like many he’s probably sick of dealing w irrational pronouns and men transitioning to half and half showing their junk in women’s spaces etc. You know, that woke democratic hash mash we Dems have to stomach. Which by the way, I believe is all created by Republicans posing as Dems to destroy us at the polls. “Here, this koolaid is delicious”.
Evji108
The insistence on pronouns (labels) is such a superficial distraction from the real issues and also totally HOPELESS.. You can’t force a change in the English language structure and tell people to call you a certain thing and them correct them all the time. What a waste of life. This will not end well.
OhHellNo
Especially over something like a pronoun. Hey, morons, 99 percent of the time, your pronoun is only used WHEN YOU’RE NOT THERE. When you’re in front of me I call you by your name, not “hey, he!”…
DBMC
Why are you so hung up on pronouns? Don’t you have better things to do?
cs1900
Hey, you know what’s crazy? “They” as a singular pronoun to avoid assigning gender has been in use since at least Shakespeare’s time, if not Chaucer’s or earlier. If you really want to fret about “forcing” changes in the language, you could at the very least actually read a book sometime,
Leash
Hey Queerty team: Why do I have to read comments from this fedora wearing transphobe deadnaming Musk’s daughter? On a site that claims to be pro LGBTQI+? Is there no moderation at all?
Jim
I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father’s protection.
Sigmund Freud
Elon seems to have failed as a parent.
Does his business success even matter?
Man About Town
Providing further proof that you don’t need intelligence to be a gazillionaire, he recently stated that, after being a lifelong Democrat, he’s switching to the Republican party because the Democrats are the ones who are now filled with “divisiveness and hate.”
I guess that makes the Republicans cuddly and loving.
Diplomat
Haha cute comment.
Diplomat
Elon says the Dems have become filled with divisiveness and hate, and to some degree I would have to agree. Have you ever seen trans women go off when someone tells them they are not real women? Run for a nuclear hide out. They make Putin look like Mother Teresa. And it spews all over the LGB community. And they aren’t even gay.
ZzBomb
1. Yall people need to stop whining over pronouns. It’s not that hard at all. You’re just lazy.
2. To those talking about how dumb she is to leave such wealth, you clearly think money is the end all be all to life which is sad. It says more about how terrible, un-supporting, and a useless father he is if she is filing in the court of law that she “wants nothing to do with him.” These decisions are not made lightly.
3. Musk’s continued downward spiral seems to be gaining momentum.
Eternal.Cowboy
I often wonder what the meltdown is going to look like when the anti-pronoun crowd finds out about verbs.
Diplomat
Lazy? We just don’t choose to play your psycho games. It’s not hard to use words that make sense, are rational, and don’t eviscerate the English language and alienate society. Did you think of that? Or were you just being lazy?
Troyfight
@ZzBomb. NOPE. …too many gd fkg pronouns. ….chewing our own arms off.
tallskin4
Ooo, the Queerty censor is back at “theys” work deleting unwoke comments
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Leash
GOOD! I’ve seen your comment. You repeatedly kept referring to Musk’s daughter as he and deadnamed her. If you wanted to let people know you’re an asshole, there are better ways! Like visually, you could start by wearing a fedor… oh I see, you’re already in style.
Joshua333
Cry about it + Cope. This isnt a public platform.
OhHellNo
E-yawn always looks like a Bond villian that lost 100 pounds and had a lobotomy.
DBMC
His head is so far up his but he won’t notice.