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Elon Musk says any parent or doctor who 'sterilizes' children 'should go to prison for life'

FILE - Elon Musk departs the Phillip Burton Federal Building and United States Court House in San Francisco on Jan. 24, 2023. Billionaire Elon Musk has told the BBC that running Twitter has been quite painful but that the social media company is now roughly breaking even after he acquired it late last year. (AP Photo/Benjamin Fanjoy, File)

In response to an argument that Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is "destroying an entire state" with his GOP-favored policies, which include the banning of sex change surgeries for kids, billionaire Elon Musk said that those facilitating the sterilization of children should be harshly punished.

MSNBC columnist Michael Cohen argued in an opinion piece on Wednesday that DeSantis's policy agenda in the state is "defined largely by pettiness, cruelty and a disturbing disregard for basic democratic norms." Cohen adds that if states are "the so-called laboratory of American democracy, then Florida is the meth lab of American democracy."

Examples of DeSantis policies that Cohen finds an issue with include the governor's pushback against Disney and its "woke ideology," the banning of teaching critical race theory in schools, and the banning of gender discussions in public Florida elementary schools.

In response to Cohen's article claiming DeSantis's "desperation for power" is ruining Florida, popular Twitter account The Redheaded libertarian quote-tweeted the article on Thursday, mocking itby insisting MSNBC was claiming DeSantis was destroying his state by not allowing kids to get sex changes.

Then, early Friday morning, Musk wrote on his social media platform Twitter that "Any parent or doctor who sterilizes a child before they are a consenting adult should go to prison for life," in reply to the Redheaded libertarian's post.

Musk has been historically critical of "gender-affirming care" for minors. The billionaire has a transgender daughter himself, but the two apparently have a rocky relationship. Musk's transgender child said that they "no longer" wanted to "live with or wish to be related to my biological father in any way, shape or form" when they were seeking a name change in 2022.

WhenMinnesota Lt. Governor Peggy Flanagan insisted that parents should "believe" their kids when they "tell us who they are" while advocating access to gender-affirming care in her state, Musk famously criticized her. He tweeted at the time that "every child goes through an identity crisis" but kids should still not be permitted access to "severe, irreversible surgery or sterilizing drugs."

While Minnesota's governor eventually signed an executive order protecting children's access to gender-affirming care, other states like Florida have banned it.

Tennessee, Utah and South Dakota are just some of the states in the U.S. that have passed legislative efforts which restrict minors from accessing gender-affirming care, which many critics call irreversible gender change treatments.

Elon Musk has spoken publically in the past about how he is in support of transgender people but dislikes the subject of pronouns and such.

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