Elon Musk’s transgender daughter has requested a name change to reflect her new gender identity and the fact that “I no longer live with or wish to be related to my biological father in any way, shape, or form.”
In April, she filed a petition with the Los Angeles County Superior Court in Santa Monica for a name change and a new birth certificate reflecting her new gender identification. It was recently brought to light in various internet media outlets.
According to court documents available online through PlainSite.org, the former Xavier Alexander Musk, who recently turned 18, the legal age of consent in California, has sought the court to change her gender recognition from male to female and to register her new name.
Her new name was redacted in the online document. Her mother is Justine Wilson, who divorced Musk in 2008.
There was no further explanation of the rift between Musk’s daughter and her father, the Tesla (TSLA.O) and SpaceX chief who is attempting a $44 billion takeover of social media platform Twitter (TWTR.N).
In May, about a month after the name and gender change document was filed, Musk declared his support for the Republican Party, whose elected representatives support a raft of legislation that would limit transgender rights in states across the country.
Musk has weighed in on the issue of transgender people choosing their preferred pronouns, tweeting in 2020, “I absolutely support trans, but all these pronouns are an aesthetic nightmare.”
