Billionaire Elon Musk has heralded a decision by a UK court to ban puberty blockers as ‘common sense,’ weeks after he blamed the ‘woke mind virus’ for killing his son after she transitioned in 2022.
Musk, 53, wrote on X: ‘Britain has rightfully banned puberty blockers for children for the immense and permanent harm they do.’
In a follow-up message, the South African responded to a tweet from Harry Potter author JK Rowling‘s posting of a news article surrounding the decision writing: ‘Thank goodness for common sense in the UK. Now this should be applied in the US as soon as possible.’
On Monday, a high court judge upheld the British government‘s emergency ban on puberty blockers, saying a study that found ‘very substantial risks and very narrow benefits’ of the treatment supported the restriction as potentially being harmful.
Justice Beverley Lang said a review commissioned by England’s National Health Service concluded that gender care is an area of ‘remarkably weak evidence’ and young people have been caught up in a ‘stormy social discourse.’
In the wake of Musk making reference to the ‘woke mind virus’ during an interview with Jordan Peterson, his daughter Vivian painted a scathing picture of her father by saying he was absent and bullied her for being queer.
Elon Musk was interviewed by Jordan Peterson in a bizarre and wide-ranging interview earlier this month where he made his comments about the ‘woke mind virus’
Musk’s initial message called out puberty blockers for the ‘immense and permanent harm they do’
Musk then responded to a tweet from JK Rowling when he urged the US to follow the UK’s lead
Musk repeatedly dead named his daughter during the interview with Jordan Peterson.
‘I was essentially tricked into signing documents for one of my older boys, Xavier,’ he said, using Vivian’s former name.
‘This was really before I had any understanding of what was going on, and we had COVID going on, so there was a lot of confusion. And I was told Xavier might commit suicide,’ Musk added.
The SpaceX founder has fathered a reported 12 children over last 22 years and has spoken publicly about his view that the world is underpopulated.
He had his kids with three different women, Canadian author Justine Wilson, musician Grimes and his employee, Shivon Zilis. His youngest child, with Zilis, was born in 2024.
Responding to her father’s interview, Vivian took to Threads, which is owned by Musk’s rival, Mark Zuckerberg.
‘There’s a lot of stuff I need to debunk, but I want to start with what I find the funniest which is the notorious ‘slightly autistic’ tweet.
‘This is gonna be a bit so just bare with me. This is entirely fake. Like, literally none of this ever happened. Ever. I don’t even know where he got this from.
Vivian wrote that she had never loved musicals or theatre and also hit back at his claims about picking out clothes for her father.
Vivian Wilson, seen here, posted on X’s arch vial site Threads, owned by Mark Zuckerberg ‘s Meta , in response to comments made by her father
Vivian was born a twin with her brother Griffin in 2004 in California to Musk and his first wife Justine (pictured), whose maiden name Wilson she has now adopted
She said: ‘I never picked out jackets for him to wear and I was most certainly not calling them ‘fabulous’ because literally what the f***.
‘I did not use the word fabulous when I was four because once again I would like to reiterate…I was four.
‘Like this is so obvious I don’t even think it warrants explanation but apparently people believe this nonsense so here I am.’
Vivian added her father has made up these claims because he wasn’t around her as a child.
She claims that Musk would relentlessly harass her for her ‘femininity and queerness.’
Meanwhile in the United Kingdom, the group TransActual and a youth who cannot be named under a court order sought to challenge the decision of former Health secretary Victoria Atkins to ban prescribing hormones that can pause the development of puberty.
They are sometimes prescribed to help children with gender dysphoria by giving them more time to consider options that could include gender reassignment.
The judge threw out the challenge, saying the ban was lawful. The ban restricts the NHS from providing the medication outside of clinical trials and prevents it from being prescribed by private suppliers.
Musk said he had known from a young age that she was gay, saying she ‘would pick out clothes for me to wear like a jacket and tell it was fabulous’ and loved musicals
The NHS stopped prescribing puberty blockers last year, saying there was not enough evidence about the benefits and harms.
Chay Brown, healthcare director for TransActual, said the government decided to ban the blockers and then found ways to justify it.
‘We are seriously concerned about the safety and welfare of young trans people in the U.K.,’ Brown said. ‘Over the last few years, they have come to view the U.K. medical establishment as paying lip service to their needs and all too happy to weaponize their very existence in pursuit of a now-discredited culture war.’
While the ban was put in place by the Conservative government that was ousted from power earlier this month, the new Labour government may make it permanent.
Health Secretary Wes Streeting said he welcomed the ruling, though he said he was treading cautiously. He said he was working with the NHS to set up a clinical trial on puberty blockers.
‘Children’s healthcare must be evidence-led,’ Streeting said. ‘We must therefore act cautiously and with care when it comes to this vulnerable group of young people.’
