Elon Musk’s daughter criticizes his anti-trans comments

Wilson, who is transgender, on Thursday called a story Musk told about her on X “entirely fake.”

Musk posted on Monday that Wilson was “born gay and slightly autistic” and added that as a child, she would “pick out clothes for me to wear like a jacket and tell me it was ‘fabulous!’”

In her response on Threads, Wilson, 20, called the depiction an untrue gay stereotype.

“I never picked out jackets for him to wear and I was most certainly not calling them ‘fabulous’ because literally what the (f***). I did not use the word fabulous when I was four because once again I would like to reiterate… I was four,” Wilson said.

She added that Musk “doesn’t know what I was like as a child because he quite simply wasn’t there, and in the little time that he was I was relentlessly harassed for my femininity and queerness.”

Musk in recent years has become increasingly enthralled with right-wing politics, sharing anti-immigration, anti-DEI and anti-trans posts and ideologies on X.

He described his shift in ideology in an interview with right-wing Canadian podcaster Jordan Peterson on Monday, in which he claimed he was “tricked” into signing medical documents for Wilson’s transition, which he said happened during the COVID-19 pandemic. After her transition, the billionaire said, he “vowed to destroy the woke mind virus.”

Musk has previously been criticized for his anti-trans comments. He has repeatedly made derogatory remarks about gender pronouns, including a now-deleted tweet from December 2020 that said, “when you put he/him in your bio,” alongside a drawing of an 18th century soldier rubbing blood on his face in front of a pile of dead bodies and wearing a cap that read, “I love to oppress.”

In response to criticism over that tweet, Musk wrote on Twitter: “I absolutely support trans, but all these pronouns are an esthetic (sic) nightmare.”