I want to be someone else to be me

Tycoon Elon Musk has a trans daughter.

Thomas Osborne
Thomas Osborne
31 July 2022 Sunday 03:54
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I want to be someone else to be me

Tycoon Elon Musk has a trans daughter. Shortly after turning 16, Xavier Alexander Musk has filed a petition with the Los Angeles County Superior Court to register her new gender identity and rename herself as Vivian Jenna Wilson. Note that, in addition to the transsexual change, and the first name change, Vivian Jenna has also changed her last name. She says that she doesn't want to be associated with her biological father anymore. He will have his reasons: Musk is already a legendary entrepreneur (despite being alive), but some aspects of his behavior invite caution. Nobody is perfect.

Vivian Jenna's attitude transcends, since the area of ​​changes related to gender and addresses those of the rupture of the paternal-filial bond. Her vocation for change is announced irrepressible. She and she invites you to imagine an ocean of transformations, which she could undertake after those already mentioned. For example, why should she just cancel relations with her father, who probably inherited her less lovable character traits from her family ancestors? Why not explore genetic manipulation to tweak the DNA and get rid of that handicap? Why be satisfied with the character that is assigned to us without prior consultation, when there is the hope of truly becoming another person, beyond gender or nominal alterations? How about a brain transplant?

Transsexualism, which until a few years ago was only exercised with some normality at night, in places dedicated to cross-dressing, is now at the center of public debate. At the end of June, the Council of Ministers approved the legal text that, as far as possible, regulates it. It's good news. And more it will be when it is in the BOE. Because the regulations that help guarantee the rights of all citizens and fight for equality and against discrimination, in line with what the Constitution says, should be welcomed.

However, the elaboration of the so-called trans law has sparked a bitter debate driven by the feminist collective, which fears that it will become a Trojan horse; that men take advantage of the law to become women and then make abusive use of the new condition and dismantle the achievements of the feminist movement.

Such conquests constitute the main advance of women in the last century and, by extension, of the human race. That is evident and does not admit backtracking. But it is possible that classic or traditional feminism – it is rare to describe a movement with such a vocation for social change in this way – exceeds its fears. Because it is yet to be shown that 100% of the men who decide to become women do so with a secret and fifth columnist purpose. Or that their demographic strength empowers them to reverse feminist achievements, since the percentage of transsexuals in Spain may not reach 1%; We are therefore talking about a minority, not about a command capable of assaulting and blowing up the feminist citadel. Nor is it clear that the government is acting in pursuit of the hypothetical electoral profitability of a law that has caused more internal division than anything else.

We could continue with these considerations typical of the national scene. But it may be more useful to conclude by returning to the case of Vivian Jenna and her fondness for her change, in which she pins perhaps inordinate hopes for personal advancement. It is true that the only thing that remains throughout life is change, that nature is changing by definition, as Ovid told us in The Metamorphoses. But it is also true that the possibilities of change are limited: a person can change gender, name, clothing, family, friends, hobbies, religion and even, whatever the fans say, football team . But it is more difficult for him to stop being who he is; to change her character for someone else's. That the entrepreneur, the neurotic, the dissatisfied, the kind or the stupid cease to be. Or that Vivian Jenna, after changing this and that and the other, will one day get rid of her love of change and find comfort and serenity. Spending your life trying to be someone else has its risks. Spending time trying to be someone else to be oneself, has more.