Elon Musk’s fraught relationship with his transgender child went public this week after the X owner said he was “tricked” into signing off on puberty blockers and declared that “my son Xavier is dead.” Vivian Wilson, a 20-year-old college student who was born Xavier Musk, swung back after her estranged father expressed his anguish over her gender transition and blamed the “woke mind virus” for fueling the surge in young people identifying as the opposite sex. “I think he was under the assumption that I wasn’t going to say anything, and I would just let this go unchallenged,” Ms.
Wilson told NBC News in a Thursday phone interview. “Which I’m not going to do, because if you’re going to lie about me, like, blatantly to an audience of millions, I’m not just gonna let that slide.” Ms.
Wilson, who legally changed her name and gender identification in 2022, said her father was largely absent during her childhood, calling him “cold,” “quick to anger,” “uncaring” and “narcissistic.” “I would like to emphasize one thing: I am an adult. I am 20 years old.
I am not a child,” said Ms. Wilson, who began taking puberty blockers at 16. “My life should be defined by my own choices.
” The beautiful Vivian Jenna Wilson, the daughter of confirms she’s not dead. The comments came shortly after Mr. Musk said during an interview on X and DailyWire+ with Canadian psychologist Jordan Peterson that he was bamboozled into agreeing to his child’s .