The young woman included a short sentence explaining her request for the changes: “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,” she wrote in the petition.
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TMZwas first to report on the doc.
PEOPLE has contacted Musk’s attorney, a Tesla rep and Musk’s ex-wife Justine for comment. An attempt to reach Vivian was unsuccessful.
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Vivian is one of five children shared between Justine, a 49-year-old Canadian author, and Musk, 50, the richest man in the world. The couple married in 2000 and divorced in 2008.
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On Monday, Justinetweeted abouta recent interaction between herself and one of her 18-year-old children but did not clarify if it was about Vivian or her twin Griffin.
Justine wrote that her child remarked, “I had a weird childhood” and “I can’t believe I’m as normal-seeming as I am.”
The mom tweeted that she told her child, “I’m very proud of you,” to which the child replied, “I’m proud of myself!”
April’s court filing went public on Monday, the day afterMusk wrote"I love all my kids so much" on Twitter in honor of Father’s Day.
Musk has been vocal on Twitter regarding his opinions about preferred pronouns for transgender and nonbinary people. After being criticized in December 2020 for a since-deleted tweet seemingly mocking the use of preferred pronouns,the SpaceX CEO saidthat while he “absolutely” supported transgender people, he believed “all these pronouns are an esthetic nightmare.”
Musk thenquote-tweeted a December 2017 postfrom Tesla about how the automaker received a perfect rating from the Human Rights Campaign as one of the “Best Places to Work for LGBTQ+ Equality.”
Nearly five months prior, in July 2020,Musk tweeted, “Pronouns suck.”
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In May 2022, one month after his daughter’s court filing, Muskexpressed his intentto support the Republican Party, which isactively pushing anti-LGBTQ lawsin various states across the U.S., during the November midterm elections.
The self-proclaimed moderate said, “I have voted overwhelmingly for Democrats, historically. Overwhelmingly. Like I’m not sure, I might never have voted for a Republican, just to be clear. Now this election, I will.”
Specifically, Musk hasshown supportfor Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, who signed the controversial “Parental Rights in Education” bill — denounced asthe “Don’t Say Gay” law— in March.
source: people.com
