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  • Comment: If the only claim of notability is being the transgender child of Elon Musk that doesn't get along with him, then this should be merged into Elon_Musk#Relationships and children. Nobody (talk) 06:53, 18 September 2024 (UTC)
  • Comment: Daily Mail cannot be used. Daily Wire is generally unreliable. The other sources don't really provide notability. Qcne (talk) 12:20, 17 September 2024 (UTC)

Vivian Jenna Wilson
Born (2004-04-15) April 15, 2004 (age 20)
Los Angeles, California, United States
Parents

Vivian Jenna Wilson (born April 15, 2004) is an American student whose estranged father is the businessman Elon Musk. She is a transgender woman, and in July 2024, began openly criticizing Elon Musk in response to his public comments on her gender transition. She currently studies languages in college.[1]

Early life

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Wilson was conceived by Justine Musk via in vitro fertilization and born in 2004 as a twin.[2] According to Wilson, her father used sex-selective IVF to ensure she would be a boy, though these are allegations that Musk has not commented on.[3] She has a twin brother, Griffin, followed by younger brothers Kai, Saxon, and Damian.[4] When asked about her relationship with her siblings, Wilson replied "I have four siblings. We're going to leave it at that, honey."[5]

She describes Musk as largely absent as she grew up and, when he was around, he could be "cruel" and allegedly harassed her for displaying "femininity and queerness".[6][7] According to Wilson, Musk often instructed her to "appear more masculine".[7] Justine Musk and Elon Musk divorced in 2008, and agreed to share custody of Wilson and her other siblings.[8] She attended school in Santa Monica.[9]

Coming out

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In a highly publicized interview with Teen Vogue, Wilson said "There was one night, it was 11:00 p.m., and I was like, I know for a fact I am trans. I had known for a few months at that point, and I was like, I cannot f**king do this anymore. That was the point where puberty was really picking up and everything in my life was completely falling apart. I was constantly having mental breakdowns in the middle of class". Following this, Wilson came out via a publicly posted Instagram story, though she's since expressed regret for not telling her mother first. Reportedly, her mother was very supportive of her transition, with her response to the coming out being paraphrased as 'Yeah that figures'. Her father was not as supportive, and according to Wilson, she had not spoken to him in months, but required his permission for her to begin testosterone blockers and hormone therapy.[5]

Wilson began her treatment for gender dysphoria at the age of 16, which, according to her, Musk did not initially support.[1] In June 2022, at the age of 18, a California judge approved her request to change her legal name and gender on her birth certificate,[10][1] after she applied in the Los Angeles County Superior Court.[11] In the petition for the changes, Wilson stated she no longer wished to be related to Elon Musk "in any way, shape or form".[12][11] In October 2022, Musk blamed his estranged relationship with Wilson on "neo-Marxist" influences due to the elite university she attended.[13]

In a July 2024 interview conducted by Jordan Peterson, Musk spoke negatively of Wilson's transition, shared anecdotes that he suggested characterized her early supposed homosexuality, and deadnamed her. He said he was "tricked" into granting her request for gender-affirming treatment, as California law required his permission since Wilson was under 18 at the time. Musk ultimately described her as having been figuratively "killed by the woke mind virus" in conjunction with her transition.[6][1]

Career

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Prior to achieving prominence, Wilson had hoped to work as a translator, and had been studying French, Spanish, and Japanese to that end. Since then however, she has considered other possibilities, including Twitch streaming, and modeling.[5]

Personality

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Teen Vogue described Wilson as 'extremely online', but also 'really good at it', something that Wilson attributes to her time in COVID lockdown, which was spent "in online communities of queer people who are constantly getting into drama and trying to read each other". She spends hours a day on Discord with her friends, and is a fan of RuPaul's Drag Race and Chappell Roan. [5]

Wilson is outspoken about transgender issues, but says that she does not consider this outspokenness to be activism, instead that "I do feel obligated to talk about trans issues. As someone who did transition as a minor, I feel like there's so much villainization of that, and I would really like to raise awareness of the fact that trans care for minors, especially puberty blockers, is really, really important". She's described the state of American politics in 2025 as "terrifying".[5]

Political views

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Wilson has spoken at length about her political views, describing herself as a leftist while rejecting characterization as a marxist. She has expressed support for universal basic income, free health-care, reducing wealth inequality, and food, water, and shelter as human rights.[5][1]

When asked if her upbringing influenced her politics, she said "Seeing that kind of wealth — extravagant wealth — firsthand, while living in Los Angeles and seeing the [huge] homelessness problem, the wealth gap… You start to wonder, How is this fair?" She has also said that her transness has informed her politics, explaining that "If one of the sides of the political spectrum is like, 'Trans people are men who are invading women's spaces to whatever,' and they're trying to take away trans health care and trans rights and trying to minimize our visibility, and one of the sides is like, 'No,' [then] it kind of has to".[5]

Role in Walter Isaacson's Elon Musk biography

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Wilson has criticized the biography Elon Musk by Walter Isaacson as inaccurate and unfair to her. According to her, she was described as a "radical Marxist", while others have described her portrayal as that of "an angry, rebellious child, blinded by radical anticapitalist ideology and hurting her father with her rash decisions".[5] The book also notably referred to her as "Jenna". Isaacson sourced his claims to Christiana Musk, the wife of Elon's brother Kimbal Musk, but never contacted Vivian before printing the claims. Isaacson claims to have reached out to her through family members.[14]

In a series of posts on threads in August, Wilson said that Isaacson never reached out to her, and described the book as "genuinely defamatory", saying that it deliberately avoided including any testimony by her; in favor of trivializing her trans identity and misconstruing her reasons for separation to make her appear as being "naive", "stupid", and "an irredeemable human being" in order to frame her existence as "a villain-origin backstory" for her father's rightwards political shift.[15][16]

Wilson later expanded of this when questioned by Teen Vogue, saying that "He had an agenda when writing his book, which was to make Elon look good, or look more complex than he is. In order to do that, he needed to villainize the trans teenager and make it seem like there were two reasonable sides to the story".[5]

Personal life

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Wilson lives and studies in Tokyo. She and her mother are on good terms.[5] She has described her father as "a pathetic man-child", and has been financially independent from him since she first came out as trans in 2020.[17]

References

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  1. ^ a b c d e "Elon Musk's transgender daughter, in first interview, says he berated her for being queer as a child". NBC News. July 25, 2024. Archived from the original on July 27, 2024. Retrieved July 27, 2024.
  2. ^ Musk, Justine (June 1, 2017). Visionaries are People Who Can See In The Dark. TEDx. Event occurs at 00:23. Archived from the original on November 15, 2019 – via YouTube.
  3. ^ Factora, James (March 10, 2025). "Vivian Jenna Wilson, Elon Musk's Estranged Trans Daughter, Says Her Assigned Sex at Birth Was "Bought and Paid For"". Them. Retrieved March 22, 2025.
  4. ^ "Elon Musk's Son Damian, 17, Says He Became a Vegetarian at Age 8 to 'Decrease My Carbon Footprint'". Peoplemag. Archived from the original on August 3, 2024. Retrieved July 28, 2024.
  5. ^ a b c d e f g h i j Yurman, Ella (March 20, 2025). "Vivian Wilson on Being Elon Musk's Estranged Daughter, Going Viral, and Protecting Trans Youth". Teen Vogue. Retrieved March 22, 2025.
  6. ^ a b Mahdawi, Arwa (July 27, 2024). "Elon Musk's 20-year-old estranged daughter responded to his rant about her". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Archived from the original on August 3, 2024. Retrieved July 27, 2024.
  7. ^ a b Ortiz, Aimee (July 26, 2024). "Elon Musk's Transgender Daughter Says He Was 'Cruel' and 'Uncaring'". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Archived from the original on July 27, 2024. Retrieved July 27, 2024.
  8. ^ Musk, Justine (September 10, 2010). ""I Was a Starter Wife": Inside America's Messiest Divorce". Marie Claire Magazine. Archived from the original on July 30, 2020. Retrieved July 27, 2024.
  9. ^ Cooke, Richard (2024). Dark Star: The Political Turning of Elon Musk. Schwartz Books Pty. Limited. ISBN 9781743823392.
  10. ^ "Elon Musk's daughter granted legal name, gender change". AP News. June 23, 2022. Archived from the original on June 26, 2022. Retrieved July 27, 2024.
  11. ^ a b "Elon Musk: Billionaire's daughter cuts ties with her father". BBC News. June 21, 2022. Archived from the original on July 27, 2024. Retrieved July 27, 2024.
  12. ^ "Elon Musk's Child Says She Doesn't 'Wish to Be Related' to Billionaire in Petition to Change Name and Gender". Peoplemag. Archived from the original on June 29, 2024. Retrieved July 27, 2024.
  13. ^ Blanco, Andrea (October 11, 2022). "Elon Musk reveals bizarre reason for daughter's estrangement". The Independent. Archived from the original on April 6, 2024. Retrieved July 27, 2024.
  14. ^ Ingram, David (July 24, 2024). "Elon Musk's transgender daughter, in first interview, says he berated her for being queer as a child". NBC.
  15. ^ Harrison Dupré, Maggie (August 12, 2024). "Elon Musk's Daughter Just Torched Walter Isaacson, His (and Steve Jobs's) Biographer". Futurism. Retrieved August 12, 2024.
  16. ^ Dickson, Ej (August 12, 2024). "Elon Musk's Daughter on Dad's Biography: 'Sad Excuse for a Puff Piece'". Rolling Stone. Retrieved August 12, 2024.
  17. ^ "Why Elon Musk's Daughter Vivian Jenna Wilson Moved Out of the United States to Live in Japan". E! Online. March 20, 2025. Retrieved March 22, 2025.
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