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petition for both a name change and a new birth certificate
reflecting her new gender identity was filed with the Los
Angeles County Superior Court in Santa Monica in April. It came
to light recently in some online media reports.
The former Xavier Alexander Musk, who recently turned 18, the
age of consent in California, has asked the court to change her
gender recognition from male to female and to register her new
name, according to court documents available online through
PlainSite.org.
Her new name was redacted in the online document. Her mother is
Justine Wilson, who divorced Musk in 2008.
There was no further explanation of the rift between Musk's
daughter and her father, the Tesla and SpaceX chief who is
attempting a $44 billion takeover of social media platform
Twitter.
Neither a lawyer who represents Musk nor the Tesla media office
immediately responded to Reuters emails requesting comment on
Monday.
In May, about a month after the name and gender change document
was filed, Musk declared his support for the Republican Party,
whose elected representatives support a raft of legislation that
would limit transgender rights in states across the country.
Musk has weighed in on the issue of transgender people choosing
their preferred pronouns, tweeting in 2020, "I absolutely
support trans, but all these pronouns are an esthetic
nightmare."
(Reporting by Daniel Trotta: Editing by Ross Colvin and Gerry
Doyle)
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