Woke virus ‘killed my son’ – Musk

The billionaire says he was tricked into giving consent to puberty blockers for his child that were actually “sterilization drugs”

Tesla CEO and X owner Elon Musk has claimed that his son Xavier, who is transgender, has been figuratively killed by “the woke mind virus” which he has vowed to “destroy.”

Speaking on Tuesday to Dr. Jordan Peterson, a Canadian psychology professor known for his commentaries on various contemporary issues such as transgenderism, Musk was asked to comment on sex change operations being performed on children, which both he and Peterson described as “evil.” 

The billionaire said that he’d had a personal experience with the practice, specifically with Xavier, who now goes by the name Vivian Jenna Wilson. The boy took his mother’s last name and has said he no longer wishes “to be related to my biological father in any way, shape or form.”

“It happened to one of my older boys, where I was essentially tricked into signing documents for one of my older boys, Xavier. This is before I had any understanding of what was going on. COVID was going on, so there was a lot of confusion and I was told Xavier might commit suicide if he doesn’t…” Musk said.

Peterson noted that that notion was “a lie right from the outset” suggesting that Musk had been deceived by the doctors.

“Incredibly evil, and I agree with you that the people that have been promoting this should go to prison,” Musk responded, noting that it wasn’t explained to him that the puberty blockers prescribed to his son were “actually just sterilization drugs.”

“I lost my son, essentially. They call it deadnaming for a reason,” the billionaire continued. “The reason it’s called deadnaming is because your son is dead. My son Xavier is dead, killed by the woke mind virus.”

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“I vowed to destroy the woke mind virus after that,” Musk said after an extended pause, noting that he has already been making progress toward that end, without specifying what exact measures he is taking.

Previously, in an interview with the Babylon Bee in 2021, Musk had also called the “woke mind virus” one of the “greatest threats to modern civilization” and described it as a “world without humor.”

Last week, Musk announced that he would be relocating the headquarters of both SpaceX and X from California to Texas in response to a new law forbidding teachers in the Golden State from telling parents if their children identify as transgender.

“This is the final straw,” Musk wrote on X after the bill was passed, describing it as an attack on both families and companies in the state. He also noted that he’d “had enough of dodging gangs of violent drug addicts just to get in and out of the building,” referring to the rampant homelessness, drug abuse and crime plaguing San Francisco where the X headquarters are located.