Elon Musk, owner of SpaceX and CEO of Tesla, speaks during a conversation with legendary game designer Todd Howard (not pictured) at the E3 gaming convention in Los Angeles, California, USA, June 13, 2019. REUTERS / Mike Blake / Photo File
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June 20 (Reuters) – Elon Musk’s transgender daughter has filed a petition to change her name according to her new gender identity and because “I no longer live or want to be related to my biological father from no way or form. “
The petition for both a name change and a new birth certificate reflecting her new gender identity was filed in Los Angeles County Superior Court in Santa Monica in April. It came to light recently in some online media reports.
Former Xavier Alexander Musk, who recently turned 18 in the age of consent in California, has asked the court to change his gender recognition from male to female and to register his new name, according to documents available online at PlainSite.org.
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His new name was written in the online document. His mother is Justine Wilson, who divorced Musk in 2008.
There was no further explanation for the rift between Musk’s daughter and her father, the head of Tesla (TSLA.O) and SpaceX who is trying to take control of the social networking platform Twitter (TWTR.N) for $ 44 billion.
Neither a lawyer representing Musk nor Tesla’s media office responded immediately to Reuters emails asking for comments Monday.
In May, about a month after the presentation of the name and gender change document, Musk declared his support for the Republican Party, whose elected representatives support a series of laws that would limit transgender rights in states around the world. the country.
Musk has spoken out on the issue of transgender people choosing their favorite pronouns, tweeting in 2020: “Well, I absolutely support trans, but all these pronouns are an aesthetic nightmare.”
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Report by Daniel Trotta: Editing by Ross Colvin and Gerry Doyle
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