Elon Musk’s daughter granted legal name, gender change

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A California decide has authorised a ask for by Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s grownup daughter to adjust her identify and gender on her beginning certificate.

Vivian Jenna Wilson submitted the petition in Los Angeles County Remarkable Court docket the day after turning 18 in April.

She mentioned gender identity and an apparent dislike of her father, as the motive for the adjust.

“I no for a longer time dwell with or desire to be linked to my biological father in any way, shape or sort,” she wrote on the petition.

Judge Rafael Ongkeko accepted the petition Wednesday in the Santa Monica courthouse just after no 1 objected to the transform. A listening to that had been scheduled for Friday was canceled. The court docket purchase mentioned a new beginning certification would be issued reflecting the modify.

Vivian will now legally use the final title of her mother, Canadian writer Justine Wilson, who was married to Musk from 2000 to 2008.

The couple had 5 kids, the oldest of which died as an toddler. Vivian has a twin brother.

Musk has been married three times, like twice to “Westworld” actress Talulah Riley. He has two younger youngsters with the singer Grimes.

On Father’s Day, Musk tweeted: “I really like all my my young children so much.”

Musk, 50, who is currently making an attempt to invest in Twitter for $44 billion, has beforehand mentioned he supports transgender men and women, nevertheless he was criticized for dismissing the use of distinctive pronouns.

“I absolutely help trans, but all these pronouns are an esthetic nightmare,” he tweeted in December 2020.

In July 2020, he tweeted “Pronouns suck.”

The Linked Push tried to achieve Vivian Jenna Wilson for comment but cellphone calls were being not answered and textual content messages ended up not quickly returned.