Elon Musk's Gender Journey
From "pronouns suck" to "child sterilizers should go to prison for life"
Elon Musk has been on quite the gender journey lately. No, he didn’t change his name to Ellen, put on a she/her pronouns pin, and don a bad wig (maybe next Halloween?). Even better: he’s come out swinging against the abuses of the gender cult.
While he has never been one to shy away from commenting on controversial political issues, it did take Musk a while to begin expressing his thoughts on this particular topic. But boy, has he ever.
It all started with that classic tweet in July 2020: Pronouns suck.
The two words caused much weeping and gnashing of teeth. Elon’s ex-partner, Grimes, also responded in a now-deleted tweet: “I cannot support hate. Please stop this. I know this isn’t your heart.”
Aside from posting some memes here and there, Elon remained largely silent on the issue even after he bought Twitter—although it was a great sign that accounts suspended for “misgendering” and other gender-related wrongthink were able to appeal their suspensions and came back once he took over.
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