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<ul class="summary-list"><li><keyword id="22546330" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="Vivian-Jenna-Wilson" source="keywords">Vivian Jenna Wilson</keyword>, <keyword id="19903807" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="Elon-Musk" source="keywords">Elon Musk</keyword>'s trans daughter, publicly spoke out against her father for the first time.</li><li>In an exclusive interview with NBC News, Wilson responded to Musk's recent anti-trans comments.</li></ul><a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/tesla-ceo-elon-musk">Elon Musk</a>'s <keyword id="22559032" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="transgender-daughter" source="keywords">transgender daughter</keyword> said the Tesla CEO was an absent father who frequently rebuked her for being queer and feminine as a child. In an exclusive interview with <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/elon-musk-transgender-daughter-vivian-wilson-interview-rcna163665">NBC News</a>, Vivian Jenna Wilson, 20, said Musk was a "cruel" father who was only around "maybe 10% of the time," despite sharing custody of Wilson and <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-children">her twin brother</a> with his ex-wife, author Justine Musk. Musk and his lawyers did not immediately respond to requests for comment from Business Insider. In the interview with NBC News, Wilson described Musk as being an unsupportive parent for as long as she could remember. "He was cold," she said. "He's very quick to anger. He is uncaring and narcissistic." Wilson said Musk regularly criticized her for displaying traditionally feminine qualities throughout her childhood. She recalled a road trip she took with Musk when she was in fourth grade, which she said was essentially an advertisement for one of his vehicles, during which she said Musk was "constantly" and "viciously" yelling at her because her voice was too high. "It was cruel," she told the outlet. Wilson spoke publicly about her relationship with Musk for the first time this week in response to comments he made about her in an interview with conservative commentator and Canadian psychologist <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/jordan-peterson-cries-over-dont-worry-darling-villain-inspiration-2022-10">Jordan Peterson</a> on Monday that was streamed live on X. Also read: <a href="https://www.businessinsider.in/thelife/personalities/news/elon-musks-12-kids-all-about-musks-dozen-kids-and-their-moms/articleshow/111280167.cms" data-type="tilCustomLink" target="_blank">Elon Musk’s 12 kids: All about Musk’s dozen kids and their moms</a> During the discussion, Musk talked about his relationship with Wilson, repeatedly misgendering her, referring to her by her "<a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/deadnaming-going-though-divorce-transgender-2023-5">deadname</a>," and alleging that he was "tricked" into approving trans-related medical care for her when she was 16 years old. "I lost my son, essentially," Musk said in the interview. "The reason it's called deadnaming is because your son is dead." He added that he believed Wilson to be "dead, killed by the <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-says-wading-into-politics-stop-woke-mind-virus-2022-5">woke mind virus."</a> Wilson, who has stayed out of the public eye until now, told NBC News that Musk's comments went too far. "I think he was under the assumption that I wasn't going to say anything and I would just let this go unchallenged," Wilson told the outlet. "Which I'm not going to do because if you're going to lie about me, like, blatantly to an audience of millions, I'm not just gonna let that slide." Wilson told the outlet that her mother was supportive of her desire to start treatment for severe gender dysphoria in 2020, but the state of California requires both parents' approval. <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/justine-musk-life-profile-elon-musk-turbulent-marriage-kids-divorce">Justine Musk</a> did not immediately respond to a request for comment from BI. When the pandemic happened, Wilson said she saw it as an escape from Musk and an excuse not to see him, calling it "lucky timing." Needing her father's authorization, however, Wilson said she texted with Musk about the signature before agreeing to meet with him in person. "He was not by any means tricked. He knew the full side effects," she told NBC News. Wilson also said he read the medical forms twice — once with her and once alone — before he eventually signed them. <div type="image" title="Elon Musk." height="2668" width="4000" msid="112039695" hostid="261"></div>Musk, who is one of the richest people in the world, has <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-explains-why-hes-voting-republican-party-2024-7#:~:text=Elon%20Musk%20explained%20in%20an,after%20the%20Trump%20assassination%20attempt.">moved further and further right</a> in recent years, often using his platform X to rage against liberal ideology. The political differences between Musk and Wilson were a topic of <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/new-book-about-elon-musk-walter-isaacson-biography-takeaways-2023-9">Musk's recent biography</a>, written by Walter Isaacson. Wilson told NBC News the book — which described her as being a supporter of "radical Marxism" via a quote from Musk's sister-in-law — was inaccurate and unfair. Isaacson also referred to Wilson by her middle name, Jenna, in the book, Wilson said. Wilson told the outlet that Isaacson never contacted her directly before the book was published. The author told NBC News that he reached out to Wilson's family members in an effort to reach her. Isaacson did not immediately respond to a request for comment from BI. In the book, Isaacson said <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-comments-relationship-transgender-daughter-vivian-jenna-2023-9">Musk was pained by the fallout</a> with Wilson and attributed the billionaire's distaste for "wokeness" partially to the rift — something Musk seemed to confirm in his interview with Peterson this week. Wilson <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-trans-daughter-name-change-cut-ties-2022-6">legally changed her name</a> in 2022 to reflect her gender and also to change her surname from Musk to Wilson, writing in California legal documents that she had no desire to be "related to my biological father in any way, shape, or form."

Elon Musk's transgender daughter says he was an absent and 'cruel' father

<ul class="summary-list"><li>Elon Musk is estranged from his transgender daughter, Vivian Jenna Wilson.</li><li>Wilson has hit back at Musk after he said she was "not a girl."</li></ul><a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk">Elon Musk's</a> former partner <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/grimes-elon-musk-custody-battle-year-from-hell-2023-12">Grimes</a> has spoken out in support of the Tesla chief's daughter <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-comments-relationship-transgender-daughter-vivian-jenna-2023-9">Vivian Jenna Wilson</a>."I love and am forever endlessly proud of Vivian," Grimes wrote in an X post on Thursday.The Canadian singer's comments came hours after a bombshell <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/elon-musk-transgender-daughter-vivian-wilson-interview-rcna163665">NBC News interview</a> with Wilson was published Thursday evening.Wilson accused Musk of being a cruel and absent father."He was cold," Wilson said of Musk. "He's very quick to anger. He is uncaring and narcissistic."In her interview with NBC, the 20-year-old Wilson also slammed Musk for making anti-trans comments this week. Musk on Monday wrote several things about Wilson on X, including that she was "<a target="_blank" class="" href="https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1815519696424161361">not a girl</a>.""I think he was under the assumption that I wasn't going to say anything and I would just let this go unchallenged," Wilson told NBC. "Which I'm not going to do, because if you're going to lie about me, like, blatantly to an audience of millions, I'm not just going to let that slide."It's notable that in her support of Wilson, Grimes referred to her as Vivian. Musk, in his social-media post, referred to his daughter by her deadname.Wilson is one of the 12 children that Musk shares with three different women — his ex-wife <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/justine-musk-life-profile-elon-musk-turbulent-marriage-kids-divorce">Justine Musk</a>, Grimes, and the Neuralink executive <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/shivon-zilis-reported-mother-elon-musk-twins-2022-7">Shivon Zilis</a>.In August, Grimes told <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.wired.com/story/grimes-big-interview/">Wired</a> in an interview that she did have a "big, long conversation" with Musk about his views on transgender people because she wanted to understand where he was coming from."It came down to pretty much every way that your transition can cause fertility issues. I was like, 'OK, you don't hate trans people; you hate woke culture,'" she said.The pair are embroiled in a custody battle over the three kids they share — X Æ A-Xii, also known as X; Exa, also known as Y; and Techno Mechanicus, or Tau. Musk and Grimes have filed dueling lawsuits in Texas and California, respectively.Representatives for Musk and Grimes didn't immediately respond to requests for comment from Business Insider sent outside regular business hours.

Grimes, Elon Musk's ex, is speaking out in support of his estranged trans daughter

<ul class="summary-list"><li>Grimes' mother addressed Elon Musk directly in a series of X posts on Saturday.</li><li>Sandy Garossino said the former couple's children couldn't visit Grimes' family because Musk is "withholding" them.</li></ul>Grimes' mother says <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk">Elon Musk</a> is "withholding" the former couple's children from the rest of the family.Sandy Garossino addressed Musk directly in a series of <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://x.com/Garossino/status/1817220477427093963">X posts</a> on Saturday, writing that Grimes and her children were scheduled to visit their 93-year-old great-grandmother in Canada this weekend. Grimes, a Canadian singer, shares three children with Musk: X Æ A-Xii, Exa Dark Sideræl, and Techno Mechanicus."She was thrilled for the kids' planned visit to celebrate her birthday this weekend. Today. But those hopes were crushed when the trip was canceled," Garossino wrote on X."I am alarmed to learn that the children cannot come as you are withholding them and their needed passport documents from Claire," she added, referring to Grimes by her given first name.Musk attended the opening ceremonies of the 2024 Paris Olympic Games on Friday with his and Grimes' eldest son, X. Footage <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://twitter.com/Teslaconomics/status/1817028869100306863">shared on X</a> appeared to show Musk and his son together at the event.He also attended Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's address to members of Congress on Wednesday in Washington, DC.<div type="image" title="Elon Musk preparing to watch Benjamin Netanyahu address to congress" height="2000" width="3000" msid="112071161" hostid="261" sizebytes="185230"></div>Garossino implied that Grimes doesn't even know where all her children are."Where are the other children, and with whom? They are scheduled to be with their mother. They were expected here in Canada," she wrote.Garossino then asked Musk to "honour your agreement, return the children, and provide the documents they need to see their great grandmother before she passes.""Please Elon, I beg you. This is so painful for my mother, and concerning for the kids. Time is of the essence now," she wrote.<a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/grimes-elon-musk-custody-battle-year-from-hell-2023-12">Grimes and Musk</a> have been in a <a target="_blank" class="editor-rtfLink" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/grimes-elon-musk-custody-battle-complete-timeline-2023-12">custody battle</a> over their children since 2022, but the current status of the case is unknown because the <a target="_blank" class="editor-rtfLink" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-grimes-appear-friendly-x-after-contentious-custody-battle-2024-4">court records were sealed</a> in April 2024.Musk has 12 children with three women, including his ex-wife Justine Wilson and Neuralink executive Shivon Zilis.After Garossino spoke out on X, Musk's estranged daughter Vivian Jenna Wilson also criticized the Tesla founder on Threads.Wilson publicly criticized Musk in an <a target="_blank" class="editor-rtfLink" href="https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/elon-musk-transgender-daughter-vivian-wilson-interview-rcna163665">NBC News interview</a> published on Thursday. Wilson, who is transgender, told NBC that Musk was an absent father and cruel. Musk has referred to Wilson by her deadname on X, and wrote that <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-ex-grimes-voices-support-for-estranged-trans-daughter-2024-7">she was "not a girl."</a>"As you may or may not know, Grimes is currently in a custody battle with Elon over their 3 children," Wilson <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.threads.net/@vivllainous/post/C97w-Kcyw2A/?xmt=AQGzPvgYzv5aOUR6yMxEF0kaoesyTQKVq77F7NpPvBLKmA">wrote on Threads</a> on Saturday. "What you probably don't know, however, is that Elon has been illegally and continuously keeping their children, her children, away from their mother during the most important developmental period in a child's life."Grimes voiced her support for Wilson with an X post on Thursday following the NBC News interview."I love and am forever endlessly proud of Vivian," Grimes wrote.Business Insider reached Garossino over text message on Saturday. She said that for now she wasn't making any more comments beyond what she wrote on X on Saturday.Representatives for Grimes and Musk did not immediately respond to Business Insider's request for comment.

Grimes' mother says Elon Musk is 'withholding' his children from her daughter: 'Please Elon, I beg you'

<ul class="summary-list"><li>Elon Musk said he planned to move the X headquarters from California to Texas.</li><li>Officials in San Francisco don't appear overly upset about it.</li></ul>Officials in San Francisco aren't all that torn up over X owner <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk">Elon Musk's</a> plans to take the social media company out of town."I share the perspective that most San Franciscans have, which is good riddance," City Attorney David Chiu told <a target="_blank" class="editor-rtfLink" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/24/technology/elon-musk-x-san-francisco.html">The New York Times</a>.Musk announced in July that he would <a target="_blank" class="editor-rtfLink" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-moving-spacex-x-texas-headquarters-california-law-2024-7">move the X headquarters</a> from San Francisco to Austin after California passed a law against "forced outings of LGBTQ+ students in schools."Musk has promoted <a target="_blank" class="editor-rtfLink" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-shares-anti-trans-content-twitter-2023-6">anti-trans content</a> on his platform in the past, which his transgender daughter, <a target="_blank" class="editor-rtfLink" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-transgender-daughter-says-absent-cruel-father-nbc-2024-7">Vivian Jenna Wilson</a>, criticized.<div type="image" title="Elon Musk at The New York Times Dealbook Summit 2023" height="2891" width="3848" msid="112770541" hostid="261" sizebytes="338584"></div>Last month, The billionaire also said he was unhappy with San Francisco's "gross receipt tax.""Even if the severe crime problem in SF were to be solved tomorrow, X could not remain in SF and launch payments, as it would immediately fail," Musk wrote on X.It's not entirely clear when X plans to relocate to Texas.The Times reported earlier this month that X CEO Linda Yaccarino told staffers they would move to offices in San Jose and that X would open an office in Palo Alto, both of which — notably — are other cities in California."This is an important decision that impacts many of you, but it is the right one for our company in the long term," the memo said.For their part, local officials in San Francisco seem fine with Musk's decision to relocate.Mayor London Breed told the Times that despite meeting with Musk "several months ago" and texting him, she had not made offers to convince X to stay in San Francisco."I'm not going to beg anybody," Breed said.Breed said she believed <a target="_blank" class="editor-rtfLink" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-political-beliefs-public-stances-timeline-republican-desantis-2022-6">Musk's political agenda</a>, which has become notably conservative, may have influenced his exit.Musk's time heading Twiter — which he rebranded to X last year — has been tumultuous. After <a target="_blank" class="" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/did-elon-musk-buy-twitter-acquisition-details">Musk bought Twitter</a> in 2022, he <a target="_blank" class="editor-rtfLink" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-twitter">fired hundreds of employees</a>. He then laid off a second round of workers the night before Thanksgiving.Ted Egan, San Francisco's chief economist, said X's presence has shrunk so much that its absence wouldn't affect the local economy."In many respects, they were already gone," he told the outlet.Representatives for Musk did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Business Insider.

San Francisco officials say they won't miss Elon Musk if he moves X to Texas: 'Good riddance'

<ul class="summary-list"><li>Elon Musk was "pained" by the fallout with his eldest daughter, his biographer wrote in a new book.</li><li>Musk told Walter Isaacson that his daughter "doesn't want to spend time with me."</li></ul>Elon Musk's relationship with his daughter is a source of turmoil for the billionaire, his biographer says.Walter Isaacson, who spent over three years trailing the Tesla CEO, said in a <a href="https://www.wsj.com/tech/elon-musk-twitter-x-takeover-walter-isaacson-5f553fa">recent excerpt in The Wall Street Journal</a> from his <a href="https://affiliate.insider.com?amazonTrackingID=biauto-60949-20&amp;h=2027d6a23f13de742cdbc82b8d9b8c20e983f7d061fb74d2941552dcf095b060&amp;postID=64f0c2286669963363da9ec3&amp;postSlug=elon-musk-comments-relationship-transgender-daughter-vivian-jenna-2023-9&amp;site=bi&amp;u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FElon-Musk-Walter-Isaacson%2Fdp%2F1982181281">forthcoming biography</a> on Musk that the billionaire's dislike for woke culture partly stemmed from his relationship with his eldest child. The biographer said Musk was hurt when his transgender daughter, whose full name is Vivian Jenna Wilson but who appears to go by her middle name, Jenna, cut off communication with him. Musk only learned she had transitioned through a secondhand source, Isaacson wrote in the excerpt.The wife of Elon's brother got a text, Isaacson wrote, which said: "Hey, I'm transgender, and my name is now Jenna". The text from the child, as in the biography, added: "Don't tell my dad."The biographer said that Musk was "generally sanguine" when he found out she had transitioned but was hurt when she cut off communication with him."The rift pained him more than anything in his life since the infant death of his firstborn child Nevada," Isaacson wrote of Musk's feelings about his relationship with his 19-year-old daughter.<a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-opens-up-about-death-of-first-son-email-2022-2">Musk's firstborn son died</a> in 2002. Musk and his wife at the time, Justine Wilson, found their son wasn't breathing when they went to wake up the infant, according to a <a href="https://affiliate.insider.com?amazonTrackingID=biauto-60949-20&amp;h=8f41a14ef624ac258d198dfc10abd09a9433172d4ffe1d825ff968df46a0760d&amp;postID=64f0c2286669963363da9ec3&amp;postSlug=elon-musk-comments-relationship-transgender-daughter-vivian-jenna-2023-9&amp;site=bi&amp;u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FElon-Musk-SpaceX-Fantastic-Future%2Fdp%2F006230125X" target="_blank" rel="noopener">biography on Musk</a> that was written by the former New York Times reporter Ashlee Vance.Isaacson said that Musk blamed the disconnect between him and his daughter on her schooling at Crossroads, a private school she attended in Los Angeles. Musk has made similar comments publicly.Last year, he told the Financial Times <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-blames-communism-hatred-of-wealthy-for-daughters-estrangement-2022-10">his daughter didn't want to be associated</a> with him because of what he called the "full-on communism" taught in schools. He made the comment after <a href="https://www.reuters.com/world/elon-musks-child-seeks-name-change-sever-ties-with-father-2022-06-21/">Reuters reported</a> in June 2022 that the Tesla CEO's daughter had <a href="https://www.insider.com/elon-musk-trans-daughter-name-change-cut-ties-2022-6?_gl=1*yw4bt4*_ga*MTI4NDcwNjc4NC4xNjUzNjYwNTA3*_ga_E21CV80ZCZ*MTY5MzQ5OTU4NC4xOTIwLjEuMTY5MzQ5OTczNi4yLjAuMA">applied to legally change her name</a> in order to reflect her gender identity and that she said: "I no longer live with or wish to be related to my biological father in any way, shape or form.""She went beyond socialism to being a full communist and thinking that anyone rich is evil," Musk told Isaacson in the biography. Musk told him he'd "made many overtures," but "she doesn't want to spend time with me," Isaacson wrote.Over the years, Musk has made comments criticizing transgender issues, including pronouns and gender-affirming surgery for minors. In 2020, he <a href="https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1339253909546823682">posted on social media</a>: "I absolutely support trans, but all these pronouns are an esthetic nightmare." Earlier this year, he posted a <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-shares-anti-trans-content-twitter-2023-6">series of anti-trans content</a> on Twitter, now known as X, and spent time during Pride Month liking transphobic posts."I will be actively lobbying to criminalize making severe, irreversible changes to children below the age of consent," Musk wrote in June, expressing <a href="https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1664620970382901249" target="_blank" rel="noopener">support for long-term prison sentences</a> without parole for those involved in the procedures.In August, Musk's ex-girlfriend Grimes <a href="https://www.wired.com/story/grimes-big-interview/">told Wired</a> she had a long conversation with Musk about his past comments on transgender people, seeking to "dissect why you're so stressed about this." Musk's issues with transgender culture came down to potential "fertility issues" that can accompany transitioning, the singer told the magazine."OK, you don't hate trans people, you hate woke culture," Grimes told Wired she said to Musk. "I get that it can be annoying, and you have concerns about the fertility thing. So let's figure it out, because there's a lot of fertility tech that could be innovated that would help trans people have kids, which would be great and would solve a lot of problems."Vivian Jenna Wilson is the eldest of Musk's <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-family-tree">nine known living children</a>. Insider was unable to contact her ahead of publication for comment. Musk; Vivian's mother, Justine Wilson; and Kimbal Musk's wife, Christiana Musk did not respond to a request for comment ahead of publication.<a href="https://www.wsj.com/tech/elon-musk-twitter-x-takeover-walter-isaacson-5f553fa">Read the full excerpt from Isaacson's book on The Wall Street Journal's website</a>.

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