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Charles Xavier (born 19th of February 1987) is an associate professor of genetics at Harvard, a mutant telepath and a prominant activist for mutant and gay rights.
Xavier during a lecture tour of New York, 2026
Early Life and formal education
Xavier was the only son of Brian Xavier, an Oxford-born nuclear physicist and entrepreneur, and Sharon Xavier (neé Toth). His only biological sibling was a stillborn twin sister[1]. Brian died of colon cancer in 1991, and Xavier's mother remarried in 1994 to his ex-business partner, Kurt Marko. The family emigrated to New York in 2005[2], where Xavier attended Graymalkin High School and met his future partner, Erik Lensherr. In 2011 he graduated at Harvard with a double major in zoology and anthropology. His masters thesis was on positive selection in primates[3]. He spent two years traveling abroad before returning to United States to complete a PhD in human evolution at Columbia University, which was accepted in 2017. He returned to research after several years of activism and was made an associate professor in 2028. Xavier's mother Sharon lives on Long Island, but he has stated that he does not have a close relationship with her and has not seen her in several years[1].
Xavier has joint citizenship in the United Kingdom and in the U.S.[1]
Student Activist Years
During his undergraduate years, Xavier regularly wrote social commentaries for student paper the Harvard Crimson, with a focus on civil rights[4]. His last work was a six-week serial in which he directly accused several prominent academics on campus of engaging in serious acts of mutant discrimination[5]. Though the editors at the time accepted his (mostly anonymous) sources and published the pieces with few qualms, he left the paper soon after. Editor Tim Daley, now an award-winning journalist, said in a 2019 interview that there was serious pressure from "higher up" to kick Xavier off the writing team and that he agreed to resign to prevent a public scandal, which Daley said "might have led to his sources being exposed".[4]
In 2016 Xavier was embroiled in a series of civil lawsuits with his stepbrother Cain Marko[5]. The case involved an estimated $30,000 that Xavier had used to fund legal representation for a number of mutant South Africans in their plea to gain refugee status in the United States. The group had purportedly been smuggled into the country by Xavier's then-partner, Erik Lensherr, and were later successful in their bid for citizenship[6] (further information: 'the Pretoria Mutants Incident'). Marko claimed that Xavier had embezzled the money from charity trust funds set up by his father Kurt Marko, who had died three years earlier. Xavier responded with counter-claims that Cain Marko was himself using the trusts to fund his private business enterprises, and that the majority of the money had been siphoned from inheritances intended for Xavier and his mother[5]. The matter was settled out of court and both parties dropped all suits.[7]
At Columbia, Xavier petitioned for the creation of a mutant chair in the student's association. His proposal garnered widespread support from the student body and in 2014 he was voted in as the first mutant representative in the association[8]. He procured much-needed funding for the school's mutant support and social groups, set up awareness events and led several widely publicised protests against the MPUA amendments [9], which it was claimed would further restrict mutant freedom in the U.S. Despite national resistance from the country's mutant population and international condemnation, the bill passed in 2015 [10]. Xavier held the chair for two years before stepping down to focus on his studies, but remained integral to the mutant movement at the university.[8]
Protests against the MPUA amendments, 2015
Later Activist Years
After finishing his PhD he turned down a postdoc in Oxford to continue campaigning for mutant and gay rights, and his charisma and commitment to peaceful protest made him a figurehead of the mutant movement[11]. He spent several years intensely involved in the push for more lenient mutant control laws, helping raise money for the legal battles of several wrongly-accused mutants in the justice system, and spreading awareness of discrimination in the U.S. and overseas[12]. In 2023 he diminished his direct work with various mutant rights groups to return to academics, saying he had become "too controversial a figure to make a consistently positive difference" [13]. He continues to attend and speak at mutant rights protests and regularly writes about the state of mutant affairs for the Boston Globe.
Main articles: 'Mutant Rights Movement in the United States' and 'Gay Rights in the United States'
Criticisms of Activism
During the peak of his popularity, anti-mutant politicians regularly accused him of "brainwashing" supporters with his telepathy[12]. Despite repeated requests by Xavier to have state telepaths test for psychic manipulation, these claims have never been corroborated. [citation needed] [this section has been nominated to be checked for its neutrality]
Many mutants within the movement have also criticised his pacifism, calling it a "lack of commitment to the cause" [14], "too little, too late" (regarding his attempts to abolish the MPUA amendments)[15], and even saying his work has "slowed the progress of mutant rights by letting humans believe we will roll over and take whatever they give us"[16].
Relationship with Erik Lensherr
Xavier is romantically linked to militant activist Erik Lensherr, who is also openly gay. Xavier currently refuses to comment on their relationship [17] but has stated in recent interviews that Lensherr is "the love of my life, and will remain so for the forseeable future"[1]. In public he has repeatedly denounced Lensherr's various illegal tactics [18] and the two have on occasion heavily criticised each other in the media. However, despite rumours about alternative partners over the years[19], neither has ever been in a confirmed relationship with any other man or woman.
Xavier and Lensherr met in high school in the mid-two-thousands, before Xavier manifested as a telepath. Both believed at the time that Xavier was human. Despite Lensherr's open hatred of humans [citation needed], friends say they were "basically joined at the hip"[19] and remained in a committed partnership for at least ten years. Lensherr was a popular opponent of mutant control laws throughout Xavier's undergrad years and was twice convicted of assault for his actions during violent clashes between police and pro-mutant protestors [18]. After Xavier graduated and the two began travelling to try and help vulnerable mutants overseas, these incidents escalated. They culminated in the Pretoria Incident in South Africa, during which four local, human nationals were killed. Xavier had already returned to the United States and Lensherr followed him home with half a dozen mutants, who had reportedly been brutally abused by South African police[20]. The U.S. refused to extradite Lensherr on the grounds that there was insufficient proof he had caused the human deaths and too high a risk that he would not get a fair trial in the country [20]. However, despite his involvement in the mutant refugees' bid for U.S. citizenship, Xavier apparently severed ties with Lensherr at this time. He later stated that the separation was "a mutual decision. It wasn't a divorce. Our beliefs conflicted too strongly in those days. Maybe it was an agreement to meet up later and see who'd been right."
Xavier admitted in a recent interview [1] that the separation had a devastating emotional impact on him. "I was forced to face the fact that I had no close friends left apart from Erik. I had no family I could stand and no one to support me. I felt like a zombie."[1] He became depressed, but did not seek medical help or tell anyone about his situation. He soon accepted the PhD scholarship at Columbia and put his focus towards fostering mutant rights at the University. Friends who knew him at the time say he gave no indication they should be concerned[8]. Xavier says his mental state began to come right only after he stepped down as mutant representative on the student association and began mentoring his replacement, Ororo Munroe[1]. He has often made reference in his speeches to this period of his life, urging young mutants who feel similarly to seek help[12].
Sometime during the last year of his PhD, Xavier and Lensherr are thought to have renewed their relationship in secret [19], despite continuing publicly to disagree. Lensherr became a wanted man in 2018 after a major break-in at the Headquarters of the FBI's Mutant Protection Agency, a front for most government control measures against mutants (further information: 'Strykergate'). Soon after the break-in, anonymous internet sources attributed to Lensherr's supporters released floods of damning documents about the MPA's treatment of mutants over the past few decades[20]. After this Xavier claimed to have cut all ties with Lensherr but also began to defend his actions[18], especially the release of the MPA files. When a conservative speaker at a rally accused him of being emotionally attached to terrorists, he stated, "Sir, if your wife was a terrorist I imagine you'd still be upset she could never come home."
There is little to no available information about their relationship since the Strykergate incident.
FBI Raids on Xavier Residences
Xavier's home was raided by the FBI at least five times between 2018 - 2023 (three times during the summer of 2021) [21] during searches for Lensherr, who remains at large[22]. The final of these was captured on amateur video by a group of Mutie Spotters (an internet fad in which participants stalk and often harass mutants in an attempt to photograph or record images of their ability) (further information: 'Mutant Fetishism#Mutie Spotters'). After this tape went viral the raids ceased [21]. Xavier claims the FBI has never had any evidence he was hiding Lensherr, and that their actions had merely done severe damage to various houses he was living in at the time. Doors and windows were broken each time and tear gas absorption made furnishings unusable. He spoke derisively about the raids during a prime news interview in 2022: "Every time they do this, the hits on my blog go through the roof. I don't understand why they don't just knock on the door. I'd be happy to show them around without all this fuss. After the first one back in '19 I had journalists camping out hoping to catch them at it again. They're like, oh this time, this time Erik will be here for sure. Do they seriously think I have him tucked under my bed or something?" [23]
Research Achievements
Xavier has lectured at Harvard since 2023. He was made an associate professor in 2028, and in 2029 published a popular science book on the evolution and expression of the mutant gene, called The X Paradox. It sat on the New York Times best seller list for four weeks [24].
Charles Xavier (born 19th of February 1987) is an associate professor of genetics at Harvard, a mutant telepath and a prominant activist for mutant and gay rights.
Xavier during a lecture tour of New York, 2026
Early Life and formal education
Xavier was the only son of Brian Xavier, an Oxford-born nuclear physicist and entrepreneur, and Sharon Xavier (neé Toth). His only biological sibling was a stillborn twin sister[1]. Brian died of colon cancer in 1991, and Xavier's mother remarried in 1994 to his ex-business partner, Kurt Marko. The family emigrated to New York in 2005[2], where Xavier attended Graymalkin High School and met his future partner, Erik Lensherr. In 2011 he graduated at Harvard with a double major in zoology and anthropology. His masters thesis was on positive selection in primates[3]. He spent two years traveling abroad before returning to United States to complete a PhD in human evolution at Columbia University, which was accepted in 2017. He returned to research after several years of activism and was made an associate professor in 2028. Xavier's mother Sharon lives on Long Island, but he has stated that he does not have a close relationship with her and has not seen her in several years[1].
Xavier has joint citizenship in the United Kingdom and in the U.S.[1]
Student Activist Years
During his undergraduate years, Xavier regularly wrote social commentaries for student paper the Harvard Crimson, with a focus on civil rights[4]. His last work was a six-week serial in which he directly accused several prominent academics on campus of engaging in serious acts of mutant discrimination[5]. Though the editors at the time accepted his (mostly anonymous) sources and published the pieces with few qualms, he left the paper soon after. Editor Tim Daley, now an award-winning journalist, said in a 2019 interview that there was serious pressure from "higher up" to kick Xavier off the writing team and that he agreed to resign to prevent a public scandal, which Daley said "might have led to his sources being exposed".[4]
In 2016 Xavier was embroiled in a series of civil lawsuits with his stepbrother Cain Marko[5]. The case involved an estimated $30,000 that Xavier had used to fund legal representation for a number of mutant South Africans in their plea to gain refugee status in the United States. The group had purportedly been smuggled into the country by Xavier's then-partner, Erik Lensherr, and were later successful in their bid for citizenship[6] (further information: 'the Pretoria Mutants Incident'). Marko claimed that Xavier had embezzled the money from charity trust funds set up by his father Kurt Marko, who had died three years earlier. Xavier responded with counter-claims that Cain Marko was himself using the trusts to fund his private business enterprises, and that the majority of the money had been siphoned from inheritances intended for Xavier and his mother[5]. The matter was settled out of court and both parties dropped all suits.[7]
At Columbia, Xavier petitioned for the creation of a mutant chair in the student's association. His proposal garnered widespread support from the student body and in 2014 he was voted in as the first mutant representative in the association[8]. He procured much-needed funding for the school's mutant support and social groups, set up awareness events and led several widely publicised protests against the MPUA amendments [9], which it was claimed would further restrict mutant freedom in the U.S. Despite national resistance from the country's mutant population and international condemnation, the bill passed in 2015 [10]. Xavier held the chair for two years before stepping down to focus on his studies, but remained integral to the mutant movement at the university.[8]
Protests against the MPUA amendments, 2015
Later Activist Years
After finishing his PhD he turned down a postdoc in Oxford to continue campaigning for mutant and gay rights, and his charisma and commitment to peaceful protest made him a figurehead of the mutant movement[11]. He spent several years intensely involved in the push for more lenient mutant control laws, helping raise money for the legal battles of several wrongly-accused mutants in the justice system, and spreading awareness of discrimination in the U.S. and overseas[12]. In 2023 he diminished his direct work with various mutant rights groups to return to academics, saying he had become "too controversial a figure to make a consistently positive difference" [13]. He continues to attend and speak at mutant rights protests and regularly writes about the state of mutant affairs for the Boston Globe.
Main articles: 'Mutant Rights Movement in the United States' and 'Gay Rights in the United States'
Criticisms of Activism
During the peak of his popularity, anti-mutant politicians regularly accused him of "brainwashing" supporters with his telepathy[12]. Despite repeated requests by Xavier to have state telepaths test for psychic manipulation, these claims have never been corroborated. [citation needed] [this section has been nominated to be checked for its neutrality]
Many mutants within the movement have also criticised his pacifism, calling it a "lack of commitment to the cause" [14], "too little, too late" (regarding his attempts to abolish the MPUA amendments)[15], and even saying his work has "slowed the progress of mutant rights by letting humans believe we will roll over and take whatever they give us"[16].
Relationship with Erik Lensherr
Xavier is romantically linked to militant activist Erik Lensherr, who is also openly gay. Xavier currently refuses to comment on their relationship [17] but has stated in recent interviews that Lensherr is "the love of my life, and will remain so for the forseeable future"[1]. In public he has repeatedly denounced Lensherr's various illegal tactics [18] and the two have on occasion heavily criticised each other in the media. However, despite rumours about alternative partners over the years[19], neither has ever been in a confirmed relationship with any other man or woman.
Xavier and Lensherr met in high school in the mid-two-thousands, before Xavier manifested as a telepath. Both believed at the time that Xavier was human. Despite Lensherr's open hatred of humans [citation needed], friends say they were "basically joined at the hip"[19] and remained in a committed partnership for at least ten years. Lensherr was a popular opponent of mutant control laws throughout Xavier's undergrad years and was twice convicted of assault for his actions during violent clashes between police and pro-mutant protestors [18]. After Xavier graduated and the two began travelling to try and help vulnerable mutants overseas, these incidents escalated. They culminated in the Pretoria Incident in South Africa, during which four local, human nationals were killed. Xavier had already returned to the United States and Lensherr followed him home with half a dozen mutants, who had reportedly been brutally abused by South African police[20]. The U.S. refused to extradite Lensherr on the grounds that there was insufficient proof he had caused the human deaths and too high a risk that he would not get a fair trial in the country [20]. However, despite his involvement in the mutant refugees' bid for U.S. citizenship, Xavier apparently severed ties with Lensherr at this time. He later stated that the separation was "a mutual decision. It wasn't a divorce. Our beliefs conflicted too strongly in those days. Maybe it was an agreement to meet up later and see who'd been right."
Xavier admitted in a recent interview [1] that the separation had a devastating emotional impact on him. "I was forced to face the fact that I had no close friends left apart from Erik. I had no family I could stand and no one to support me. I felt like a zombie."[1] He became depressed, but did not seek medical help or tell anyone about his situation. He soon accepted the PhD scholarship at Columbia and put his focus towards fostering mutant rights at the University. Friends who knew him at the time say he gave no indication they should be concerned[8]. Xavier says his mental state began to come right only after he stepped down as mutant representative on the student association and began mentoring his replacement, Ororo Munroe[1]. He has often made reference in his speeches to this period of his life, urging young mutants who feel similarly to seek help[12].
Sometime during the last year of his PhD, Xavier and Lensherr are thought to have renewed their relationship in secret [19], despite continuing publicly to disagree. Lensherr became a wanted man in 2018 after a major break-in at the Headquarters of the FBI's Mutant Protection Agency, a front for most government control measures against mutants (further information: 'Strykergate'). Soon after the break-in, anonymous internet sources attributed to Lensherr's supporters released floods of damning documents about the MPA's treatment of mutants over the past few decades[20]. After this Xavier claimed to have cut all ties with Lensherr but also began to defend his actions[18], especially the release of the MPA files. When a conservative speaker at a rally accused him of being emotionally attached to terrorists, he stated, "Sir, if your wife was a terrorist I imagine you'd still be upset she could never come home."
There is little to no available information about their relationship since the Strykergate incident.
FBI Raids on Xavier Residences
Xavier's home was raided by the FBI at least five times between 2018 - 2023 (three times during the summer of 2021) [21] during searches for Lensherr, who remains at large[22]. The final of these was captured on amateur video by a group of Mutie Spotters (an internet fad in which participants stalk and often harass mutants in an attempt to photograph or record images of their ability) (further information: 'Mutant Fetishism#Mutie Spotters'). After this tape went viral the raids ceased [21]. Xavier claims the FBI has never had any evidence he was hiding Lensherr, and that their actions had merely done severe damage to various houses he was living in at the time. Doors and windows were broken each time and tear gas absorption made furnishings unusable. He spoke derisively about the raids during a prime news interview in 2022: "Every time they do this, the hits on my blog go through the roof. I don't understand why they don't just knock on the door. I'd be happy to show them around without all this fuss. After the first one back in '19 I had journalists camping out hoping to catch them at it again. They're like, oh this time, this time Erik will be here for sure. Do they seriously think I have him tucked under my bed or something?" [23]
Research Achievements
Xavier has lectured at Harvard since 2023. He was made an associate professor in 2028, and in 2029 published a popular science book on the evolution and expression of the mutant gene, called The X Paradox. It sat on the New York Times best seller list for four weeks [24].