Elon Musk’s child seeks name change to sever ties with father By Reuters

(Reuters) – Elon Musk’s transgender daughter has filed a request to transform her title in accordance with her new gender id and for the reason that “I no lengthier live with or wish to be similar to my organic father in any way, shape or kind.”

The petition for both of those a name change and a new start certificate reflecting her new gender identification was submitted with the Los Angeles County Outstanding Court in Santa Monica in April. It arrived to light-weight not too long ago in some on the web media stories.

The former Xavier Alexander Musk, who not long ago turned 18, the age of consent in California, has asked the court docket to adjust her gender recognition from male to female and to sign up her new name, according to court documents out there on-line by PlainSite.org.

Her new name was redacted in the on line doc. Her mom is Justine Wilson, who divorced Musk in 2008.

There was no further more clarification of the rift concerning Musk’s daughter and her father, the Tesla (NASDAQ:) and SpaceX main who is making an attempt a $44 billion takeover of social media platform Twitter (NYSE:).

Neither a law firm who represents Musk nor the Tesla media office environment immediately responded to Reuters emails requesting remark on Monday.

In May, about a month just after the title and gender adjust document was filed, Musk declared his guidance for the Republican Party, whose elected associates support a raft of legislation that would limit transgender rights in states throughout the region.

Musk has weighed in on the issue of transgender folks picking their preferred pronouns, tweeting in 2020, “I completely assist trans, but all these pronouns are an esthetic nightmare.”