For using children as slaves, Elon Musk requests a life sentence
April 14, 2023Tweet
Elon Musk has defended state bans on sex-change surgeries and medications for minors by arguing that people who provide such treatment should be sent to prison. He made his comment in response to an MSNBC columnist’s claim that Florida Governor Ron DeSantis was destroying his state with “intolerant and authoritarian-minded” policies. Musk is no stranger to controversy, having stirred the culture-war pot on issues ranging from pronouns to vaccine mandates to anti-white racism. His tweet about sex-change procedures for minors garnered around 9 million views in seven hours. Florida is among more than a dozen Republican-controlled states that have imposed restrictions on sex-change procedures for children.
Critics of such legislation have decried the bans as attacks on transgender youth. White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre lamented that more than 50% of US transgender children in the US live in states where their access to “gender-affirming health care” has been lost or is under threat. She added, “LGBTQI+ kids are resilient, they fight back, they’re not going