In a new interview, Elon Musk spoke about the toll gender ideology has taken on his own family, saying that his son was “killed by the woke mind virus”.
Speaking with Canadian psychologist Dr Jordan Peterson, Musk claimed that he was “tricked” into signing documents that enabled his son to access puberty blockers.
“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 really any understanding of what was really going on. With Covid going on… so, there was a lot of confusion. And, you know, I was told that Xavier might commit suicide,” Musk said in the Daily Wire interview.
“So I was tricked into doing this. And it wasn’t explained to me that puberty blockers are actually just sterilisation drugs,” he said.
“It’s called ‘deadnaming’ for a reason,” Musk said, referring to the term used by activists to describe calling a person by the name they had prior to their ‘transition’. “The reason it’s called deadnaming is because your son is dead.”
“I lost my son, essentially,” he stated, adding that, “My son Xavier is dead, killed by the woke mind virus… So I vowed to destroy the woke mind virus after that.”
‘Gender affirming care’ is a “terrible euphemism,” and “macabre”, Musk said, continuing that in reality it’s “child sterilisation”.
Musk recently announced that he is moving his business headquarters from California to Texas, after California governor Gavin Newsom signed a bill that bans schools from alerting parents when their children want to socially transition their gender.
Describing the legislation as the “final straw,” Musk said that he’d had conversations with Governor Newsom previously making clear that if they “pass legislation like this—that in my view puts children in danger—I will move my companies out of California”.
This comes after a top British expert on suicide prevention found that claims that a ban on puberty blockers would increase suicide in children with gender dysphoria are unfounded and “dangerous”.
Psychiatrist and leading adviser on suicide prevention, Prof. Louis Appleby, said that the data “does not support the claims” – and criticised the “insensitive, distressing and dangerous” language being used by some activists.
He also pointed out that the false claims had been repeated by leading journalists and that there was nothing to suggest that the journalists have examined the evidence for themselves.