You're not wrong. Besides having a vague visual similarity, the character also carries its own symbolic association. In English, "X" is mystery, and the unknown. It's a signature, or a mark. Thirty years ago, it was used frequently in marketing to connect with "eXtreme" sports culture.
Musk thinks it's the coolest letter because he's a child.
His first girl (not counting Vivian) was born in approx 2022. He has 14 kids, and they're almost all male. This isn't coincidence, especially since most of the early children were the result of IVF, where it's possible to select the sex. This is part of why he's so angry. He only wanted male children, he paid for male children, and one of his male children had the nerve to not be male in defiance of his wishes.
Why does his naming conventions feel like he's populating a Warhammer 40k fanfic? At first I was like "Well Vivian sounds normal" and then I remembered that she chose that name and her dead name (which fucking gross Elon posted) definitely fits the 40k paradigm.
I would bet that the names he chose, at least the ones that aren't "X" in some way (Xavier, Exa, X AE whatever) are probably white supremacist adjacent in some way, "Saxon" being an obvious one.
Also if he hadn't IVF'd Vivian, she'd have been born the right gender, female
That's not how ivf works. More likely she wouldn't have been born at all because she would have had to compete with a few million sperm instead of being specifically chosen in a lab.
You don't have to be a teenager to be featured in teen vogue. Just interesting to teenagers (and I can understand why Vivian has the spotlight on her).
Also, that's not how genetics work. Vivian is the result of that specific egg and sperm. She never would've been born with XX chromosomes. Someone else would've been born.
If we want to laugh at Musk though, we can point out how the venn Diagramm of autistic people and trans people is practically a circle. Musk trying to select all "males" during IVF was always doomed to fail, especially the more kids he had. He's so dumb and desparate for control he thought he could pick his kids' identities through their very genetics.
I hope Vivian has a kick ass life just the way she is. :)
A bit off-topic: In a darwinistic sense selecting only male offspring via in-vitro-fertilization is a bad strategy (by Elon). Females are more likely to propagate their genes than males on average, but Musk does not care?
That's a bit like saying "It's illogical for Herr Hitler to mistreat the jews. If what he really cares about is the German People, surely that aim is best served by retaining expertise where it is available."
Fucking hell. That tweet is so cruel. I hope one day he comes back from the dark place he currently finds himself and looks back on this episode with shame.
He won't. I've been following this asshole for well over half a decade now... He doesn't care about anyone but himself. He goes out of his way constantly to make things worse for "the helpers" Mr. Rogers' mother told us to look for (e.g. one of the heroes that saved all of those kids many years back that Elon baslessly labeled a "pedo" for literally no good reason.)
But he's kind of right, isn't he? Xavier Musk did die, and Vivian Wilson was born.
Is Elon a pro-trans activist and his recent slide to the far-right has just been a meticulously orchestrated plan to get him embedded in the Trump White House?... probably not, more likely it was the ketamine talking.