American actor and comedian Marlon Wayans, who has a trans daughter, has said it is hard for him to hear Elon Musk’s comments disproving his trans daughter.
Wayans, who was speaking about his child, Kai, coming out as trans on a recent episode of the podcast Club Shay Shay, joked “I have a Tesla that I’m about to drive off a cliff”.
“I don’t like what he be saying about his trans child, that made me mad. You don’t treat them babies like that. You don’t disown your baby.”
Wayans, 52, admitted that he had to take time to “grieve” who he thought his child was but it didn’t take long to reach a point of acceptance.
“For one week I was resistant, and I’m not proud of the things that I went through but I’m proud that I got there in a week,” he shared. “I’m sad to say some parents and some family members and some people — it’ll take them a lifetime, and they’ll never get to that magical place that I’m at.”
Musk hasn’t spoken about his daughter, Vivian Wilson in recent months, but in the past, he claimed he was “tricked” into allowing Wilson to undergo transgender-related medical treatment when she was 16.
“I lost my son, essentially,” he said during a sitdown with psychologist Dr. Jordan Peterson. “They call it ‘deadnaming’ for a reason. The reason they call it ‘deadnaming’ is because your son is dead.”
Wilson, who legally filed to change her name and gender in 2022 when she turned 18, called these allegations a “lie” in an interview just days later.
“I think he was under the assumption that I wasn’t going to say anything and I would just let this go unchallenged,” she said. “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.”