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Elon Musk has announced that, in response to California’s new legislation that provides greater flexibility of gender identification to schools, he will relocate the headquarters of SpaceX and X to Texas.
Tuesday, Musk made the announcement that SpaceX‘s headquarters will be relocating from Hawthorne, California to a location not far from Brownsville, Texas. Musk confirmed in a subsequent message that X’s headquarters will be relocating from San Francisco to Austin, Texas.
The “final straw” that forced the move, according to Musk, was a law signed on Monday.
School districts cannot mandate that schools inform parents of a student’s gender or sexual orientation transition, according to a landmark bill signed into law by California Governor Gavin Newsom on Monday.
“I did warn Governor Newsom approximately one year ago that legislation of this kind would drive businesses and families out of California in order to safeguard their children,” Musk stated in a Tuesday follow-up message on X.
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Musk has regressive restrictions about LGBTQ+ content on X and has posted anti-transgender content on the platform. In 2023, when the firm was still known as Twitter, a prominent LGBTQ+ advocacy group declared it to be the most harmful platform for LGBTQ+ safety.
For a short while in 2023, the platform dismantled policies that forbade the “misgendering or deadnaming of transgender individuals.” The regulations were brought back a little over a year after that.
In 2021, Musk, as CEO of electric vehicle firm Tesla, relocated the business’s headquarters to Austin from Palo Alto, California. Musk claimed back then that the high cost of living in California was preventing the company from growing.