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Elon Musk's Gender Journey

From "pronouns suck" to "child sterilizers should go to prison for life"

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Eva Kurilova
Jun 06, 2023
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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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