Elon Musk’s transgender daughter has unleashed a fiery response to controversy over her father’s inauguration salute. Vivian Wilson, 20, who has publicly been at odds with her billionaire Tesla creator father for the past year, took to Threads to denounce her father.
‘I’m just gonna say let’s call a spade a f***ing spade,’ she wrote. ‘Especially if there were two spades done in succession based on the reaction of the first spade.The world’s richest man was also defended by antisemitism watchdog Anti-Defamation League, which described the controversy as ‘an awkward gesture in a moment of enthusiasm, not a Nazi salute.’
After the gesture went viral earlier this week, Musk wasted no time in denying the Nazism allegations as he blasted his critics for needing ‘better dirty tricks’ to bring him down.
Musk took to his social media platform X to defend himself, stating that the ‘the “everyone is Hitler” attack is sooo tired.”
But the pose sparked widespread debate online, dividing opinions between those who brushed it off as a clunky moment and others who felt Musk was offering a clear tribute to Nazism and the alt-right. Avid Trump supporter Elon, who has reportedly fathered 12 children from three different women, welcomed Vivian with his first wife, Justine Wilson, in 2004.
She was born as a male named Xavier, but filed court documents seeking to legally change her gender from male to female in April 2022.
At the time, she also requested to change her name to Vivian Jenna Wilson, taking the maiden name of her mother.Elon, 53, has since publicly slammed Vivian, calling her a ‘communist’ who thinks ‘anyone rich is evil.’
He also once claimed that he was ‘tricked’ into allowing Vivian to go on puberty blockers.
‘I was essentially tricked into signing documents for one of my older boys, Xavier,’ he said, using her former name.
‘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.’When asked about gender dysphoria, he added: ‘It’s 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.’Deadnaming is what transgender people typically refer to others calling them by the name they went by before they began to transition.
Elon said that he ‘vowed to destroy the woke mind virus after that.’
He also posted a Tweet in which he claimed that Vivian was born ‘gay and slightly autistic.’
She responded by saying that her father was not around when she was a child, and would relentlessly harass her for her ‘femininity and queerness.”He doesn’t know what I was like as a child because he quite simply wasn’t there,’ she fired back.
‘And in the little time that he was I was relentlessly harassed for my femininity and queerness.
‘I’ve been reduced to a happy little stereotype. I think that says a lot about how he views queer people and children in general.’