In a sense, he did. Maintaining continuity of identity between your assigned and chosen identities is harder when you have more transphobic parents. If you accept your trans kid, it's easier for them to identify as the same person before and after. Abuse them, and they might decide they were never the person you loved in the first place. Elon could have saved his "son" by loving her. But instead he became attached to a person she never was. A phantom that has ceased to exist.

To be fair, it wouldn't be that out of character