2024-07-27 09:17:39
New York. “My son is dead.” For any father, dealing with such a tragedy in public is devastating. However, if it turns out that your child is really alive, has become transgender and has been denounced on TV as an abusive parent, the issue becomes much more dramatic and complicated, as well as embarrassing. Because it puts you in the middle of the irreconcilable cultural, rather than political, game that is dividing the United States on the eve of the presidential elections in which the survival of the oldest democracy in the modern world is at stake.
The story we are telling is true and the protagonist is Elon Muskthe richest man in the world, who has recently become an activist aligned with Donald Trump. Speaking a few days ago he then explained: “Basically, I was trying to sign papers for one of my older children. This happened before I could understand what was happening. We had Covid going on, so there was a lot of confusion, and I was told he might have committed suicide.”
Musk announced that the sex change procedure is performed “on children well below the age of consent”, so he agreed with Peterson that those who practice it should go to prison. Then he finished: «I lost my son, basically. They call him dead for a reason. It is because your son died. I have since promised to destroy the virus woke. And we’re making progress.” Indeed, this cultural crusade, by his own admission, is one of the reasons why he changed political positions, siding with Trump.
Vivian Jenna Wilson (whose name was Xavier), the twenty-year-old daughter of Elon Musk, in a frame from the video she released to respond to her father Elon Musk
Musk’s problem, however, is that Thursdayold son of Xavierwho is now twenty years old and his name is Vivian Jenna Wilson, because he severed ties with his father and chose to change his name, asked NBC to turn him down. First, he separated him as a parent: “He was never there, maybe ten percent of the time.” And when he was there, he says, it would have been better if he had stayed away: «He tormented me because of my voice and my effective ways. I remember a trip together when I was in elementary school, which was really promoting one of his cars. He always called me for being too loud. It was cruel.” But above all, Vivian rejected the circumstances of the sex change, which in California requires the consent of both parents, when the children are minors (Xavier was 16 at the time): “I wanted to for months, but he said I had to meet him in person, he read them twice and then he didn’t cheat, he knew exactly what he was doing do it.” And these treatments for the gender dysphoriahe said, “they save lives”.
It is always presumptuous to assess the family dynamics from the outside, so it is left to the main characters to judge the small details of this story that are not yet known to the public, for example Elon who mocks Vivian for being a Marxist brainwashing victim, and she responds by accusing him of being an attention-seeking drug addict. However, the cultural and political conflict at the heart of the story concerns everyone and is one of the factors that will contribute to the decision of the presidential elections.
The issue of trans has inspired the Americans in particular when the swimmer Emma Weyant reported that she was beaten in a university competition by Lia Thomas, who participated in competitions as a man on the team of the University of Pennsylvania for three years. Since then, at least twenty states have banned transgender people from playing sports with girls, and the Republican-led House passed a law to impose the national ban.
At the same time, Bud Light was in danger of losing its beer market when it released an ad featuring transgender TikTok star Dylan Mulvaney. Kid Rock, the Maga singer staged at the Republican Convention in Milwaukee to relaunch Trump’s presidential candidacy after his assassination, expressed his disappointment by publishing a video in which he shot Dylan in the face with a can.
Then in mid-July came California’s law banning schools from notifying families when students want to change gender and this pushed Musk to threaten to move all his companies out of state. We now understand that that law was designed to prevent the abuse that Vivian suffered because her father was not willing to accept her nature or her tendencies.
It does not take a sociologist to understand how sensitive the issue is, which also includes the values, ethical beliefs and religious beliefs of the protagonists. Everyone is always entitled to their own opinion, but the governor of California Gavin Newsom himself criticized the Republicans’ attempt to use it as a political weapon: «It is an issue that concerns less than one percent of the population, and it would be it’s complicated enough already. who lives there, without burdening him and making it an act of national war. Why can’t we dialogue in a civil way, with the aim of finding sensible solutions, even when people’s lives are at risk?”.
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