• TSG_Asmodeus (he, him)@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    One thing I noticed, and you can check this for yourself too, is that American media outlets constantly refer to her as ‘Elon Musks transgender daughter’, and it really bothers me it’s not just ‘Elon Musks Daughter.’

    So I checked, and the BBC, CTV News (canadian), CBC (also canadian) all just refer to her as his daughter.

    I absolutely love that she’s bringing the lumber, but I could really do with news organizations not using that as her identifier. She’s not ‘Elon Musk’s transgender daughter.’ She’s Vivian Jenna Wilson, she doesn’t even consider Elon her father. I’ll let her speak for herself here:

    (From her name change):

    “I no longer live with or wish to be related to my biological father in any way, shape or form,” she wrote on the petition.

    “I would like to emphasize one thing: I am an adult,” she said, according to NBC. “I am 20 years old. I am not a child. My life should be defined by my own choices.”