The mother said that when Vivian was 6 years old, Elon told her, “In this world, there are winners and losers. Do you want to be a winner or do you want to be a loser?” Justine Wilson added, “The subtext there was, ‘If you do not follow me and do what I say, you will be a loser.’ ”

Justine Wilson said that Musk treated Vivian Wilson’s gender transition like the “death of a child” and added that her trans daughter felt “pain” after Musk wrote on X (the social media platform that he has owned since 2022) that he had lost his child to the “woke mind virus.”

In response to her father, Vivian Wilson published a defiant social media post in which she wrote, “I look pretty good for a dead b**ch… and you don’t.” She later reprinted the phrase on apparel to fundraise for LGBTQ+ youth.