‘Killed By the Woke Mind Virus’: Elon Musk Says His Estranged Trans Child is ‘Dead’

Billionaire X owner Elon Musk claimed his 20-year-old transgender child Vivian Jenna Wilson was “dead” and had been “killed by the woke mind virus” during a discussion with Canadian eccentric Jordan Peterson on Monday.

Speaking about transgender children on The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast, Musk said, “If we allow children to take permanent actions when they’re ten, twelve, fourteen years old, they will do things that they subsequently greatly regret.”

After Peterson asked, “Why are you willing to make this an issue?” Musk replied, “It happened to one of my older boys.”

“I was tricked into doing this… the people promoting this should go to prison.” @ElonMusk opens up to @JordanBPeterson about gender ideology’s impact on his son, Xavier. pic.twitter.com/1bdILGNdJE

— Daily Wire (@realDailyWire) July 22, 2024

“I was essentially tricked into signing documents for one of my older boys, Xavier. This was before I had really any understanding of what was going on,” he claimed. “I was told Xavier might commit suicide… So I was tricked into doing this and, you know, it wasn’t explained to me that puberty blockers are actually just sterilization drugs.”

Musk told Peterson that as a result of the transition, “I lost my son, essentially.”

He then said, “They call it deadnaming for a reason. The reason it’s called deadnaming is because your son is dead. So my son Xavier is dead. Killed by the woke mind virus.”

“I’m sorry to hear that,” Peterson replied.

Musk continued, “So I vowed to destroy the woke mind virus after that.”

The billionaire also spoke about his estranged transgender child in a post on X, Monday.

“Xavier was born gay and slightly autistic, two attributes that contribute to gender dysphoria,” he wrote. “I knew that from when he was about 4 years old and he would pick out clothes for me to wear like a jacket and tell me it was ‘fabulous!’, as well as his love of musicals & theatre. But he was not a girl.”

Xavier was born gay and slightly autistic , two attributes that contribute to gender dysphoria.

I knew that from when he was about 4 years old and he would pick out clothes for me to wear like a jacket and tell me it was “fabulous!”, as well as his love of musicals & theatre.…

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 22, 2024

Xavier Musk’s name was changed in court to Vivian Jenna Wilson in 2022.

Wilson wrote in a petition that the reason for the name change was “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.”