Elon Musk seeks ‘full custody’ of son over mother’s pro-trans views

Elon Musk has said he is seeking to gain “full custody” of one of his children after his mother, Ashley St Clair, announced her support of the trans community.

The 54-year-old claimed he planned to file for the custody of his son after his mother, political commentator Ashley St Clair, said she feels “immense guilt” for her role in pushing anti-trans narratives.

“I will be filing for full custody today, given her statements implying she might transition a one-year-old boy,” Musk wrote in an X/Twitter post.

St Clair, a conservative political commentator, revealed in February last year that she shares a child with Musk – the 13th of his 14 children to date – while claiming at the time that he was refusing to communicate with her.

She further accused the billionaire of withdrawing child support payments in June, claiming he was punishing her for “disobedience“.

In an X/Twitter post on Monday (12 January), St Clair responded to accusations from The Onion editor June Sternbach that she had engaged in “blatant transphobia”, apologising for her previous remarks on the community.

“I feel immense guilt for my role. And even more guilt that things I have said in the past may have caused my son’s sister more pain,” she wrote. “[I don’t really know] how to make amends for many of these things, but I have been trying incredibly hard privately to learn [and] advocate for those within the trans community that I’ve hurt.”

St Clair said she was silent on the topic over uncertainty as to whether her voice would be “helpful” in fighting for trans rights.

“Even this reply will become right-wing hysteria, but yeah, I am sorry. Let me know how I can help.”

In response, Musk fans called for the billionaire to seek full custody, wildly claiming St Clair had offered her son “to the woke mob”.

This is far from the first public custody battle for the right-wing tech CEO, whose disputes include an ongoing legal battle with Grimes over custody of their three children; X Æ A-XII, Exa Dark Sideræl and Techno Mechanicus.

The musician criticised Musk in February after he brought his son, X Æ A-12, into the Oval Office alongside president Donald Trump to discuss the now-defunct Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).

Responding to videos of the then four-year-old child inside the Oval Office, Grimes said he “should not be in public like this”, adding she was “glad he was polite”.