--- title: "Elon Musk Blasts His Transgender Daughter" description: "Elon Musk is doubling down on his \"anti-wokeness\" as it pertains to his transgender daughter, Vivian Jenna Wilson. " date: "2024-11-07" modified: "2024-11-07" authors: - name: "Noor Al-Sibai" job_title: "Senior Staff Writer" link: "https://futurism.com/authors/nooralsibai" url: "https://futurism.com/the-byte/elon-musk-blasts-trans-daughter" categories: - "Elon Musk" - "Future Society" - "The Industrialists" tags: - "donald trump" - "elon musk" - "the digest" - "transphobia" - "vivian jenna wilson" --- # Elon Musk Blasts His Transgender Daughter ![Elon Musk is doubling down on his "anti-wokeness" as it pertains to his transgender daughter, Vivian Jenna Wilson. ]() *\Image: Jabin Botsford / The Washington Post via Getty\* ## Spreading Hate Elon Musk is doubling down on his "[anti-wokeness]()" as it pertains to his [estranged transgender daughter](), [Vivian Jenna Wilson](). After [Wilson posted on Threads]() that she doesn't see herself being able to remain in the United States following Donald Trump's win, [notorious shock jock]() Ian Miles Cheong made a point to [misgender her](). And her father, for some reason, chose to respond in kind. "The woke mind virus killed my son," Musk said, re-upping not only [his favorite strawman argument](), but also cruelly misgendering his daughter in the process. Ironically enough, this latest debacle perfectly illustrates Wilson's point about the [right-wing transphobia]() that ushered Trump back into office. "I've thought this for a while, but yesterday confirmed it for me," the 20-year-old wrote in her original post. "I don't see my future being in the United States. Even if \[Trump is\] only in office for four years, even if the anti-trans regulations magically don't happen, the people who willingly voted this in are not going anywhere anytime soon." ## Massive Attack Those people, of course, include her estranged father — who [threw hundreds of millions of dollars]() to get Trump elected — and the millions of voters who at the very best care so little about trans people that they're willing to disregard the president-elect's [laundry list of transphobic statements and policies](). Indeed, just a few weeks before the election, [*ABC News* found]() that the Trump campaign spent a third of its war chest, or a whopping $21 million, to push attack ads, including anti-trans and anti-LGTBQ rhetoric, against Democratic nominee and outgoing vice president Kamala Harris. One such ad that began airing just a few days before the election [featured the false claim]() that Olympic gold medal boxer Imane Khelif is not a cisgender woman — misinformation that was, notably, [spread by Musk himself]() on the social network he owns. Wilson, to her credit, seems to be taking her billionaire father's latest attacks against her in stride. "So like... can I attend my own funeral or would that be considered gauche?" [she jokingly wrote on Threads](), referencing the *other* time Musk claimed the "woke mind virus" allegedly [killed her](). More on Musk's family: [*Elon Musk's Mother Attacks Reporter for Being Vietnamese*]() ## Author At Futurism, I've often been drawn to unpacking the narratives that underlie technological, scientific and medical progress, with a special interest in areas of conflict and ambiguity that end up setting agendas and steering the fates of both elites and the hoi polloi. I'm a committed generalist, but I often find myself returning to work involving NASA and the private space sector, the effects of AI on media and society, and the mechanics of the pharmaceutical industry, with a specific focus on the spread of GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic and Wegovy. Prior to Futurism, I worked for publications ranging from Media Matters and Truthdig to Raw Story and Bustle. I'm also the author of "Myspace Scene Queens," a 2024 title in Instar Books' acclaimed "Remember the Internet" series. My work at Futurism has been cited by outlets including the New Yorker, Slate, Nieman Lab, the Verge, the MIT Technology Review, the Sunday Times, and the Daily Beast. I grew up in North Carolina, attended the University of North Carolina at Asheville, and now live in Brooklyn, New York. In my free time, I'm an avid reader and music fan; you can probably find me at a local poetry reading, concert, underground rave, or DJ set. I'm the proud parent of an ineffable orange cat named Mee-Mow. ### Author social links [Bluesky]()