In an exclusive interview, Vivian Jenna Wilson said her father’s recent statements, including that she is “not a girl,” inspired her to speak out: “I’m not just gonna let that slide.”

Vivian Jenna Wilson, the transgender daughter of Elon Musk, said Thursday in her first interview that he was an absent father who was cruel to her as a child for being queer and feminine.

Wilson, 20, in an exclusive interview with NBC News, responded to comments Musk made Monday about her and her transgender identity. On social media and in an interview posted online, Musk said she was “not a girl” and was figuratively “dead,” and he alleged that he had been “tricked” into authorizing trans-related medical treatment for her when she was 16.

Wilson said that Musk hadn’t been tricked and that, after initially having hesitated, he knew what he was doing when he agreed to her treatment, which required consent from her parents.

Musk’s recent statements crossed a line, she said.

“I think he was under the assumption that I wasn’t going to say anything and I would just let this go unchallenged,” Wilson said in a phone interview. “Which I’m not going to do, because if you’re going to lie about me, like, blatantly to an audience of millions, I’m not just gonna let that slide.

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    "Musk told Peterson that Wilson’s gender transition has been the motivation for his push into conservative politics.

    “I vowed to destroy the woke mind virus after that, and we’re making some progress,” he said. "

    My god what a total dumbfuck.

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        Yeah for a guy who’s so fucking pedantic he’s literally asked for the definition of the word “do” in response to a question he seems totally fine with the word “woke” being used for whatever.

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          I remember this, but I can’t find it with a quick google. Do you remember when he said this or in what context?

          There’s a dingus I need to show that to :)

          Edit: The definition of “do” thing

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              Man as someone who loves him way back when as a guest on TVO’s Agenda with Steve Paikin… JP really went off the rails hard. It’s insane that simple gender politics are what drove him batshit crazy. He dug in so hard on being against calling someone “They/Them”.

              Jesus Christ he’s insane.

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                Well that and the fact he got mind fucked by drugs and was taken to a shady ass either Russian or Balkan rehab clinic. Though I think he has always been a dumbass and was just better at hiding it, IDK even in my highschool anti-SJW phase he struck me as rather dull.

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    I feel for her so much. Imagine how this feels to have a father like that, who spits on everything you are and then brags about it to millions of people.

    She is obviously not a public person and still he drags her and his personal hatred into the public eye of millions.

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      All while crying about it because you “died from the woke mind virus”.

      You know, his still living daughter who he’d still have a fucking relationship with if he didn’t suck ass so much.

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          Yes, he sees his children as people to be groomed to continue, and expand, his legacy. His daughter does not fit in with the idea he has for them. However, he can use exploit her queerness, to play the victim of the woke mob, for his alt-right chudcred.

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    Wilson said that, when she was a child, Musk would harass her for exhibiting feminine traits and pressure her to appear more masculine, including by pushing her to deepen her voice as early as elementary school.

    “I was in fourth grade. We went on this road trip that I didn’t know was actually just an advertisement for one of the cars — I don’t remember which one — and he was constantly yelling at me viciously because my voice was too high,” she said. “It was cruel.”

    What a colossal piece of shit.

    Also, she is really beautiful. She clearly got her mom’s half of the physical appearance genes.

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    “I no longer live with or wish to be related to my biological father in any way, shape or form”

    Anti-trans bigots with trans kids, this is your future.

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      Put into the court record when she didn’t have to say so to fulfill any legal requirement. She just hates her father, one of the richest men in the world, so much that she wanted a permanent legal record of her disowning him.

      She could have just waited around until he died and hoped she got some inheritance, but she hates him that much. That shows what an absolute monster of a father he was.

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    Vivian seems like a lovely young lady, and I hate that she has to put up with such blatant disrespect from her own father. How one man could be so cruel, so uncaring to his own flesh-and-blood is beyond me.

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      Easy, when there’s no empathy it applies to anyone and everyone you ‘disagree’ with.

      Source: a good part of my extended family were bigots of all kinds.

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    “I vowed to destroy the woke mind virus after that, and we’re making some progress."

    Fucker may as well have said “I vowed to destroy my entire reputation and we’re making some progress.”

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      And yet millions and millions of people - including many people reading this - are still buying his cars and using his piece of shit website.

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    The guy plans everything, has mild autism and daughter didn’t go according to his plans, so now he’s a whiny baby.