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Newsom Press Office Taunts Musk Over Estranged Transgender Child as Musk Misgenders and Blames ‘Woke Mind Virus’

The posts followed a Musk-linked PAC clip of Newsom touting pro-trans laws, rekindling their feud over California transgender policy.

California govenor, Gavin Newsom. (Getty)
WASHINGTON, DC - MAY 21: Elon Musk listens as reporters ask U.S. President Donald Trump and South Africa President Cyril Ramaphosa questions during a press availability in the Oval Office at the White House on May 21, 2025 in Washington, DC. Relations between the two countries have been strained since Trump signed an executive order in February that claimed white South Africans are the victims of government land confiscation and race-based “genocide,” while admitting some of those Afrikaners as refugees to the United States. Trump also halted all foreign aid to South Africa and expelled the country’s Ambassador to the U.S., Ebrahim Rasool.
Elon Musk and his trans daughter Vivian Jenna Wilson.
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Overview

  • Newsom’s official press account on X replied to an America PAC clip by posting, “Correct. We’re sorry your daughter hates you, Elon.”
  • Elon Musk responded on X by deadnaming and misgendering his child, writing, “I assume you’re referring to my son, Xavier,” and calling the transition a “tragic mental illness” caused by a “woke mind virus.”
  • Musk added that he loves his child and listed his daughters as Azure, Exa (who goes by Y) and Arcadia, asserting they “do indeed love me very much.”
  • Vivian Jenna Wilson legally changed her name and gender in 2022 and filed to drop Musk’s surname, moves that have figured prominently in their public estrangement.
  • The clash drew immediate online reaction and revived prior disputes between Newsom and Musk over California’s transgender-related policies and Musk’s previous relocations of company operations to Texas.