Vivian Wilson, the 20-year-old transgender daughter of tech billionaire Elon Musk, has announced her plans to leave the United States following Donald Trump’s recent election victory. Wilson, who has been estranged from Musk, shared her reasons for leaving on the social media platform Threads.
“I don’t see my future in the United States. I’ve thought this for a while, but yesterday confirmed it for me. Even if he’s only in office for four years, even if anti-trans regulations don’t materialize, the people who voted for this aren’t going anywhere anytime soon,” Wilson wrote, according to the Daily Mail.
Vivian, who was born Xavier Musk in 2004, legally changed her name and gender in April 2022, taking her mother’s maiden name, Wilson, to distance herself from her father.
In court documents, she made her feelings clear, stating, “I no longer live with or wish to be related to my biological father in any way, shape, or form.”
The relationship between Musk and his daughter has been publicly strained, with Musk describing her as a “communist” and accusing her of viewing wealth as inherently evil. He has also voiced his disapproval of her gender transition and claimed that he was misled when consenting to her use of puberty blockers during the COVID-19 pandemic.
“I was essentially tricked into signing documents for Xavier,” Musk said, adding, “I didn’t fully understand what was happening at the time; it was during COVID, and I was told Xavier might commit suicide.”
Musk has previously taken a strong stance against puberty blockers, describing them as “sterilization drugs,” and has called gender dysphoria “incredibly evil.”
He has even gone so far as to claim that those who promote it “should go to prison.” Musk expressed his feelings by saying, “I lost my son… They call it ‘deadnaming’ because your son is dead, killed by the woke mind virus.”
Vivian responded to her father’s comments, shedding light on their distant relationship and her childhood experiences. She claimed that Musk had minimal involvement in her upbringing and often criticized her for her “femininity and queerness.”
“He doesn’t know what I was like as a child because he simply wasn’t there. I was relentlessly harassed for my femininity and queerness. I’ve been reduced to a stereotype. I think that says a lot about how he views queer people and children in general,” Vivian said.