Elon Musk announced via social media that he plans to seek custody of his youngest child following comments made by the child’s mother supporting the transgender community.

Musk responded to users on the platform X who brought attention to recent statements by Ashley St Clair. He declared his intention to obtain custody of their one-year-old son, Romulus.

In a post on Monday morning, the 54-year-old stated, “I will be filing for full custody today, given her statements implying she might transition a one-year-old boy.”

Though St Clair has not indicated any plans to transition her son, she has shared posts showing support for the transgender community.

The mother of Musk’s youngest child recently expressed regret over any transphobic remarks she may have made, including a post stating, “Twitter was better when it was woke, to be honest.”

In another post, St Clair commented, “Dark woke cause the other option is bootlicking feds + pedophiles + nerds.”

‘You’ve previously engaged in blatant transphobia, how do you feel about trans people in the wake of noticing how the far right truly is?’ a user responded to her. 

‘I feel immense guilt for my role,’ St Clair began. ‘And even more guilty that things I have said in the past may have caused my son’s sister more pain.’

Elon Musk, 54, said on X that he would be filing for custody of his one-year-old son after his mother, Ashley St Clair, was ‘implying she might transition’ the young boy

St Clair, who announced Musk as the father of her child last year, previously made comments on social media in support of the trans community and her son’s sister Vivian, who came out in 2022

Another of Musk’s children, Vivian, came out as transgender in 2022 and has been openly critical of her father on social media. 

St Clair continued: ‘[I don’t really know] how to make amends for many of these things but I have been trying incredibly hard privately to learn + advocate for those within the trans community that I’ve hurt.’ 

‘I also haven’t said much on this because I have gone back and forth over whether my voice would be helpful on the issue since it will be framed as disingenuous or just turning because I’m “scorned.” Even this reply will become right-wing hysteria but yeah I am sorry. Let me know how I can help.’ 

Musk’s move came after he responded to a user who warned him that he ‘needs full custody.’

‘Coming out in support of trans grooming like this is insane,’ they wrote. 

St Clair’s statement was met with many claiming the influencer was ‘pretending to be a Right Winger for years’ but ‘abandoning it all’ for monetary gain. 

‘Offering up your own child to the woke mob, talking about his “sister” (a young boy that was groomed and castrated). One of the most disgusting things I’ve seen,’ the user wrote. 

In 2024, Musk condemned the transitioning of Vivian, named Xavier at birth, and said he was ‘essentially tricked’ into signing documents for her. 

St Clair announced that she welcomed a baby fathered by Musk on X last February

‘This was really before I had any understanding of what was going on, and we had COVID going on, so there was a lot of confusion. And I was told Xavier might commit suicide,’ he said.

‘I was tricked into doing this. It wasn’t explained to me that puberty blockers are actually sterilization drugs.’

‘I lost my son, essentially. They call it “deadnaming” for a reason. The reason they call it “deadnaming” is because your son is dead, so my son, Xavier, is dead, killed by the woke mind virus.’

Vivian, however, hit back at her father, with whom she had had a tense relationship, and said in an interview with NBC News: ‘I think he was under the assumption that I wasn’t going to say anything and I would just let this go, unchallenged.’

‘[But] I’m not going to do [that] because if you’re going to lie about me, like, blatantly to an audience of millions, I’m not just gonna let that slide.

‘I was in fourth grade. We went on this road trip that I didn’t know was actually just an advertisement for one of the cars — I don’t remember which one — and he was constantly yelling at me viciously because my voice was too high. It was cruel.’

Discussing his comment that he had been ‘tricked’ into approving gender-affirming medical care for Vivian, she added: ‘He was not by any means tricked.’

She went on to describe the puberty blockers and hormone replacement therapy she received as ‘saving lives.’

Musk’s estranged daughter, Vivian, has publicly hit back at her father for comments on her mental health and condemning her transition

In a post on X, Musk also said that Vivian was ‘born gay and slightly autistic’ and that, at age four, she fit certain gay stereotypes, such as loving musicals

In a post on X, Musk also said that Vivian was ‘born gay and slightly autistic’ and that, at age 4, she fit certain gay stereotypes, such as loving musicals.

Vivian replied by saying: ‘He doesn’t know what I was like as a child because he quite simply wasn’t there.

‘And in the little time that he was I was relentlessly harassed for my femininity and queerness.

‘I’ve been reduced to a happy little stereotype,’ she continued. ‘I think that says a lot about how he views queer people and children in general.’

The Tesla billionaire fathered six children with his first wife, Justine Wilson, and the oldest of them passed away. Musk also has three children with his ex, singer-songwriter Grimes, and three more with Neuralink employee Shivon Zilis. 

St Clair announced publicly that she welcomed a baby fathered by Musk on X after the pair had been seen flirting on the social media platform. 

The influencer kept her pregnancy largely under wraps, keeping her on-camera appearances last year tightly cropped, and not appearing at public events for several months.

But once the baby was born, she continued her meteoric rise in MAGA circles, including showing up at Donald Trump’s election night party at Mar-a-Lago.

Vivian and her twin brother Griffin are the Tesla CEO’s eldest living children, whom he shares with his ex-wife, Canadian author Justine Wilson. The former couple are pictured together

Musk kisses his then fiancée Talulah Riley at an event in June 2010, as they stand with his twin boys Griffin (left) and Xavier, (right) now known as Vivian

St Clair shared photos on X of herself at Trump’s estate with Congressman Matt Gaetz’s wife, Ginger, and GOP spokesman Elizabeth Pipko.

She has also been pictured with Vivek Ramaswamy and FBI Director Kash Patel.

Staff at St Clair’s luxury condo tower say they have not seen any sign of Musk – adding that they would have had to ‘shut down’ the building to accommodate his security detail had he visited.

‘The Elon Musk thing doesn’t surprise me,’ a resident of the building told the Daily Mail. ‘She was definitely one of the first people in a pretty large, luxury building to get a Cybertruck.

‘She’s not particularly social with other residents,’ a neighbor told the Daily Mail. ‘There’s definitely a baby, and I believe there’s a toddler as well.

‘Her nanny is very much full-time.’

St Clair filed a lawsuit against her baby’s father on February 21 last year, claiming Musk told her to keep the baby secret, then ghosted her and their son in the middle of child support negotiations, forcing her to take legal action. 

Musk’s attorneys had previously successfully petitioned the judge to seal the case on March 14, keeping its details secret and limiting St. Clair’s ability to speak out. 

In March, St Clair also revealed she had been forced to sell her $100,000 Tesla after Musk cut her child support in half. 

She was spotted handing over the keys to her black Model S outside her Manhattan apartment.