Elon Musk’s transgender daughter’s request to legally change her title was granted Wednesday, in keeping with a court docket doc obtained by NBC Information.
“There being no objections, the petition for change of title, recognition of change of gender, and issuance of latest beginning certificates is granted,” a Los Angeles County Superior Court docket decide dominated, in keeping with the doc.
Musk’s daughter, whose new title is Vivian Jenna Wilson, requested the court docket to vary her title to agree along with her gender id and since “I now not dwell with or want to be associated to my organic father in any manner, form or type.”
The petition, which was filed in Santa Monica in April, got here to mild lately in on-line information studies as Musk, the chief of Tesla and SpaceX, makes an attempt a takeover of the social media platform Twitter.
Wilson didn’t reply to textual content messages requesting remark, and it appeared her voicemail inbox was full. She lately turned 18.
Wilson’s mom is Justine Wilson, who divorced Musk in 2008; she didn’t reply to an electronic mail requesting touch upon her daughter’s petition.
It was not instantly identified what triggered the rift between Musk and his daughter.
Musk has weighed in on the subject of transgender folks’s selecting their most well-liked pronouns, tweeting in 2020, “I completely assist trans, however all these pronouns are an esthetic nightmare.”
Reuters contributed.
