In a new interview with Jordan Peterson for the Daily Wire, X CEO Elon Musk revealed new details about his involvement with this biological son’s gender “transition,” saying he was duped by the “woke mind virus” into signing papers for his child to take puberty blockers without realizing just how toxic the left’s war on gender really was.
“It’s evil. I mean, you’re taking kids who are obviously often far below the age of consent...almost every child goes through some kind of identity crisis, it’s just part of growing up, so it’s very possible for adults to manipulate children who have are having a natural identity crisis into believing that they are the wrong gender and that they need to be the other gender," Musk said.
"We have an age of consent for a reason. The reason you can't get, say, tattoos below age 18 or drink or drive, and there are ages at which you can do things, is because if we allow children to take permanent actions when they’re 10, 12, 14 years old, they will do things that they subsequently greatly regret," he went on.
“It happened to one of my…to my older boy,” Musk explained, referring to his 20-year-old son, Xavier, who now identifies as a woman named Vivian Wilson and with whom Musk has a strained relationship.
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“I was essentially tricked into signing documents for one of my older boys, Xavier,” Musk continued. “This was before I really had any understanding of what was going on, we had COVID going on, and so there was a lot of confusion.”
“And I was told you know, Xavier might commit suicide,” he added.
Peterson interjected that there is no clinic evidence showing underage, gender-confused children commit suicide at higher rates simply because they can’t get medical procedures like chemical castrations or permanently body-altering surgeries.
“It’s incredibly evil, and I agree with you that the people promoting this should go to prison,” Musk concurred.
“It wasn’t explained to me that puberty blockers are really just sterilization drugs. So…anyway. I lost my son, essentially,” he went on, clearly becoming more distraught.
“They call it ‘deadnaming’ for a reason,” Musk continued, referring to the practice of using a person’s birth name instead of whatever new name they adopt based on their “preferred” gender. “The reason it’s called ‘deadnaming’ is because your son is dead. So my son Xavier is dead, killed by the woke mind virus.”
Musk said he bought X - then Twitter - as part of his vow to “destroy the woke mind virus” that he blames for convincing him to sign off on his own child’s figurative death.
Check out the full interview clip from the Daily Wire here:
So actually @elonmusk bought X not to “own the libs” but because of the infinite depth of his love for his son who was trans’ed by the left. To destroy what destroyed his son, even as his som rejects him. That’s… wow. That’s some kind of love.❤️
— Liz Wheeler (@Liz_Wheeler) July 23, 2024
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