Musk: It’s “Time For Parents To Fight Back” Against Gender Ideology
Authored by Samantha Flom via The Epoch Times
Tesla CEO Elon Musk is once again speaking out against transgender politics, calling upon parents to “fight back” and protect their children from the ideology.
“Time for parents to fight back!” the billionaire wrote on Twitter on July 9 in response to a TikTok video posted by an irate father.
Gender ideology’s days are numbered.
— Billboard Chris 🇨🇦🇺🇸 (@BillboardChris) July 9, 2023
Moms and dads are not going to put up with it.pic.twitter.com/lH3Ugf2GCa
“I’m literally on fire right now,” said the dad, who goes by JoToJaVin on TikTok. He explains in the video that he had just spoken with his wife, who took their two sons to the doctor’s office for routine physicals before the new school year.
“My 9-year-old son went in first, and the first thing this woman asks him is if he identifies as a boy, a girl, gender-fluid, or nonbinary,” he fumed. “My son, he’s never heard of any of that [expletive] before.”
The dad went on to note that his son, who has been seeing the same doctor since he was born, is “clearly a boy’s boy.” Questioning whether the doctor was trying to “plant a seed” in his child’s mind, he continued:
“The only thing I can be thankful for is that my wife took them instead of me. And props to my wife because she said something. And if she didn’t, they would’ve asked my 7-year-old son the same damn question.”
The father also had a message for those who approve of doctors discussing such matters with children: “There’s something wrong with you.”
Mr Musk, who has a 19-year-old child who identifies as transgender, has been openly critical of transgender ideology. In recent months, he has used his newly acquired platform Twitter to crack down on the use of the terms “cis” and “cisgender,” which are often used by transgender individuals to refer to heterosexual people.
Revealing this change in a June 21 Twitter exchange, he noted: “Repeated, targeted harassment against any account will cause the harassing accounts to receive, at minimum, temporary suspensions. The words ‘cis’ or ‘cisgender’ are considered slurs on this platform.”
He has also previously condemned the performance of gender-reassignment procedures and surgeries on children.
In an April 14 Twitter post, the SpaceX CEO wrote, “Any parent or doctor who sterilizes a child before they are a consenting adult should go to prison for life.” Likewise, in a prior exchange in March, he said adults were propagandizing children into believing they were born in the wrong bodies.
“Every child goes through an identity crisis before their personality/identity crystallizes,” he said. “Therefore, we shouldn’t allow severe, irreversible surgery or sterilizing drugs that they may regret until at least age 18.”
Others around the country have shared in the tech executive’s concerns, protesting at school board meetings over the gender ideology that is being taught in their children’s schools.
Meanwhile, more and more individuals who underwent body-altering surgeries as minors are speaking out about their regrets over those decisions, with some even filing lawsuits against the hospitals and medical professionals that performed those procedures.
