Elon Musk’s transgender daughter has filed a request to change her name in accordance with her gender identity and because she does not wish to be related to her biological father in any way.
Elon Musk’s transgender daughter has asked the court to change her gender identity from male to female and to enter her new name (Reuters Photo)
Elon Musk’s transgender daughter has filed a request to change her name in accordance with her new gender identity and because “I no longer live with or be related to my biological father in any way, shape or form.”
The petition for both a name change and a new birth certificate showing her new gender identity was filed in Los Angeles County Superior Court in Santa Monica in April. This recently came to the fore in some online media reports.
According to court documents available online through PlainSite.org, former Xavier Alexander Musk, who recently turned 18 years of consent in California, asked the court to change his gender identity from male to female and change his new name. asked to enter.
His new name was modified in the online document. His mother is Justin Wilson, who divorced Musk in 2008.
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There was no further explanation for the rift between Musk’s daughter and her father, the Tesla and SpaceX chief, which is attempting to acquire the social media platform Twitter for $44 billion.
Neither the attorney representing Musk nor the Tesla media office immediately responded to an email from Reuters requesting comment on Monday.
In May, nearly a month after the name and gender change document was filed, Musk declared his support for the Republican Party, whose elected representatives support legislation limiting transgender rights in states across the country.
“I absolutely support trans, but all these pronouns are an aesthetic nightmare,” Musk tweeted in 2020 on the issue of transgender people choosing preferred pronouns.