Elon Musk went on a transphobic rant Thursday on X, baselessly claiming “hormone injections cause extreme emotional volatility” simply hours after his estranged daughter, Vivian Wilson, who’s trans, known as him a “pathetic man-child.”
“What are the statistics on trans violence,” Musk wrote on X, the social media web site he owns, in response to somebody writing that 3 in 4 individuals who have been arrested for vandalizing Teslas are transgender or nonbinary. “The probability of a trans person being violent appears to be vastly higher than non-trans. Hormone injections cause extreme emotional volatility. That is simply a fact.”
On Thursday, three individuals have been charged for allegedly utilizing Molotov cocktails to set fireplace to Tesla automobiles and charging stations at a automotive dealership in Canada. Neither their names nor genders have been launched.
Musk then shared a graphic, writing, “Wow, trans violence is EXTREMELY FAR above normal levels!!”
There is no such thing as a proof to counsel individuals taking hormone injections are topic to “extreme” emotional volatility. A 2022 Stanford College examine discovered that transgender individuals who begin gender-affirming hormone remedy in adolescence have higher psychological well being than individuals who wait till maturity to start out.
A overview carried out by researchers at Amsterdam College Medical Facilities and the College of Exeter discovered that gender-affirming hormone remedy reduces melancholy and psychological misery in trans individuals.
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Musk’s posts come the identical day his daughter Vivian Wilson known as him out in an interview with Teen Vogue. Wilson, 20, who got here out as trans when she was a teen, has been estranged from Musk for a while and instructed the outlet the final time she spoke to her father was 2020.
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Wilson has mentioned previously that Musk berated her for being queer as a child, and in her Teen Vogue interview, she known as him a “pathetic man-child” and mentioned his “Nazi salute” at President Donald Trump’s inauguration occasion, saying, “We’re going to call a fig a fig.”
