Elon Musk Calls For “Death Sentence” for GAC Providers [*Trigger Warning*]

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S Baum (2 Oct 2026)

Elon Musk continues to fuel political violence against his political enemies—this time, transgender people and their doctors.

On Wednesday, the world's first trillionaire tweeted out a response to a recording of an anti-trans activist's speech about "gender ideology," the conspiracy myth born from the Catholic Church which paints LGBTQ people as a nefarious cabal responsible for the world's social and moral rot. In the video, the activist rails against providers of gender-affirming care (GAC). Elon Musk replied: "Those who mutilate children should receive a death sentence.

Referring to gender-affirming care—including hormone replacement therapy and puberty blockers—as "mutilation" is a common rhetorical ploy by the anti-trans movement. Musk has been a longtime proponent of such scare tactics, which became even more obsessive after it became widely reported that his daughter, Vivian Wilson, is transgender. (Wilson has emphatically renounced his politics.) 

That same day, Musk also boosted a post by that same activist of an interview with a United Kingdom news station regarding the resumption of puberty blocker trials for trans kids. Many of the same voices posturing about the need for "more evidence" for providing gender-affirming care have taken to fighting even allowing it in this highly controlled study.