Elon Musk has attacked a ruling that reportedly clears the way for a 12-year-old to receive gender-affirming care as "psychotic."
The billionaire X, formerly Twitter, owner's comment came after Jeff Younger wrote on the platform last week that he had "lost all parental rights to my sons" after a ruling by Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Mark Juhas.
Younger claimed the ruling gave his ex-wife, Anne Georgulas, the "authority to castrate my son." He wrote: "Let my story be a cautionary one for young men. Fathers have no rights to their children. Do not enter the family law system."
Newsweek has not yet viewed the ruling and has contacted Younger for comment via email. An attorney for Georgulas has also been contacted via email.
Chemical castration, or medical castration, involves the use of drugs to stop sex hormone production. Experts have said that gender-affirming care for a child would not involve medical intervention until they at least reach puberty.
Younger told the Washington Examiner that he intends to appeal the court decision.
"This is psychotic," Musk wrote on X, in a response to a repost of a MailOnline article about the ruling.
Musk, who has a transgender daughter, said in late 2020 that he "absolutely supports trans," but has repeatedly criticized gender pronouns.
He has previously said that his daughter's transition drove his shift to the political right. His daughter Vivian Wilson filed to change her name in 2022, saying the reason is to do with "gender identity and the fact that I no longer live with or wish to be related to my biological father in any way, shape or form."
Musk recently said that he had been "tricked" into approving gender-affirming care for Wilson at 16 and that the experience made him an opponent of such treatment.
Wilson told NBC News in July that Musk had not been tricked and knew what he was doing when he agreed to her treatment.
Musk, who has been tapped by President-elect Donald Trump to co-lead a so-called Department of Government Efficiency, also said last year that he would lobby to criminalize "making severe, irreversible changes to children below the age of consent."
Younger has been embroiled in a legal battle with his ex-wife since 2018.
The case made headlines when The Washington Post reported that Georgulas, who is a pediatrician, sought a restraining order against Younger to block him from entering the twins' school or telling other parents or students "that the gender of Luna is different than a girl named Luna."
Georgulas has said the child who was born a boy identifies as a girl and prefers to be called a female name, but Younger said the child acted like a boy around him.
In 2019, a Texas court gave the parents joint custody of the children, however, a judge gave Georgulas sole custody of the twins in 2021 and gave her exclusive right to consent to medical procedures except for "hormone suppression therapy, puberty blockers or transgender reassignment surges," The Texan reported.
Georgulas moved to California with the children in 2022, with Younger accusing her of deliberately doing so to avoid complying with that court order. California has a law designed to stop Texas and other states from removing children from parents who allow them to receive gender-affirming care.
Younger petitioned the Texas Supreme Court to order Georgulas to bring their children back to Texas before the law took effect, but it was denied.
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