I may not be the second richest person on the planet but as grown-ass man of about Elon's age, I am just flummoxed trying to imagine why or how I could possibly be threatened by someone's gender identity — let alone if that someone were a child.

@ct_bergstrom

Especially considering that, statistically, these aren’t even kids you’re likely to know.

@MollyNYC not sure why you'd say that?

parents comfortable with their kids being trans are going to trend educated + progressive, so someone in academia has a wide pool of people they could meet, from colleagues' kids to students

so even taking the low estimate of 0.7% percent across the whole population, pretty hard to *not* meet trans kids

now will conservative business people meet trans kids? well, the richest man in the world has one, so

@undafiend @MollyNYC

One of Musk’s own kids is trans. She has cut off all ties to him and changed her name.

His response:

https://www.advocate.com/transgender/2022/10/11/elon-musk-says-communism-caused-rift-transgender-daughter

Elon Musk Says 'Communism' Caused Rift With Transgender Daughter

His trans daughter, Vivian Wilson, wants nothing to do with Musk, and he blames "full-on communism" that he says is taught at colleges and universities.

Advocate.com

@valoisdubins @MollyNYC yes that's what my last sentence refers to

(2nd richest, whatever)

@undafiend @MollyNYC

Ah - I meant to reply to Molly and hadn’t seen your reply beneath the CW. Sorry. I’m still fumbling with how Mastodon keeps CWs for every reply in a thread.

@valoisdubins @undafiend

Oh. Thank you, that's very interesting.