Did he go to public school?
...public school?.
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Outside of the very restricted enrollment requirements of a handful of top-tier schools for the real elite, there’s not much difference. In any event, for the young, the culture rules.
Culture wins, every time. But both culture and the *wins* are ephemeral. If they were not, there would be no cultural shifts and we would not today see the old hippies agitating for WWIII.
The kid could rebel without the legal identity change. Just adopt a name/appearance/identity as so many others do. I do suspect some sort of outside political influence designed to humiliate/hurt Elon.