Elon Musk has continued his public opposition to gender-transition measures being performed on minors, stating in a tweet that “’gender-affirming care for minors’ is pure evil”. The comment was made by the business magnate in response to a tweet from Jordan Peterson, who stated that the “phrase ‘gender-affirming’ care is a criminally evil lie”.
Surgeries, cross-sex hormones, and puberty blockers are some of the measures the term refers to.
In a tweet last week Musk suggested he plans on campaigning to “criminalize” permanent gender-transition measures being performed on kids before the age of consent.
The former Twitter CEO stated: “This is a major problem. I will be actively lobbying to criminalize making severe, irreversible changes to children below the age of consent. Shame on those who advocate this! It is utterly contemptible.”
Musk said in a tweet in April that he believes “we should wait until an individual is mature enough to make their own decisions before other adults make permanent, serious physical changes to them.”
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On Sunday, in response to a Twitter account called The Rabbit Hole that had tweeted: “’Gender Affirming Care’ is in the best of cases a euphemism for a paid yes-man to continually affirm delusions and in the worst of cases a euphemism for putting children on horrible drugs or outright child mutilation”, Musk wrote: “It means castration”.
Musk said that he would use people’s preferred pronouns as it is “good manners”, The Blaze reports.
He tweeted: “I should note that I do personally use someone’s preferred pronouns, just as I use someone’s preferred name, simply from the standpoint of good manners”.
