Elon Musk’s 18-year-old trans child seeks name change to sever ties with father
- The teen, formerly Xavier Alexander Musk, wants to change last name, citing a desire to cut ties with famous father
- The transgender teen is one of five children Musk shares with writer Justine Wilson. The couple filed for divorce in 2008
Elon Musk’s transgender daughter has filed a request to change her name in accordance with her new gender identity and because “I no longer live with or wish to be related to my biological father in any way, shape or form”.
The petition for both a name change and a new birth certificate reflecting her new gender identity was filed with the Los Angeles County Superior Court in Santa Monica in April. It came to light recently in some online media reports.
The former Xavier Alexander Musk, who recently turned 18, the age of consent in California, has asked the court to change her gender recognition from male to female and to register her new name, according to court documents available online through PlainSite.org.
Her new name was redacted in the online document, but goes by the name Vivian Jenna Wilson. The teen is one of five children Musk shares with writer Justine Wilson, who divorced Musk in 2008.
In addition to his children with Wilson, Musk has two children with musician Grimes.
There was no further explanation of the rift between Musk’s daughter and her father, the world’s richest person.