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Elon Musk will move company headquarters out of California

Musk remarked that the new law represents an attack on “both families and companies,” clarifying that he told Newsom “about a year ago that laws of this nature would force families and companies to leave California to protect their children.”

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Musk said the SpaceX headquarters in Hawthorne, California, would move to Starbase, Texas, while the headquarters for X would move from San Francisco, California, to Austin, Texas. File Image.

Elon Musk revealed that he would move the headquarters for social media company X and rocket enterprise SpaceX out of California and to Texas after the state of California enacted a new law banning schools from notifying parents when their children start identifying as the opposite sex.

 

The new legislation, which was signed by California Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom this week, renders California the first state in the nation to actively prohibit government schools from informing parents when their children start using different preferred pronouns or claim identity as a member of the opposite sex. Musk commented that the headquarters for both companies would leave the state “because of this law and the many others” that preceded the statute.

 

 

Musk said the SpaceX headquarters in Hawthorne, California, would move to Starbase, Texas, while the headquarters for X would move from San Francisco, California, to Austin, Texas.

 

The multibillionaire entrepreneur remarked that the new law represents an attack on “both families and companies,” clarifying that he told Newsom “about a year ago that laws of this nature would force families and companies to leave California to protect their children.”

 

 

Musk said in his announcement that the new law marked the “final straw” for the two businesses. The phrase was reminiscent of his announcement four years ago that California lockdowns and mandates were the “final straw” for electric vehicle manufacturer Tesla, meaning that the company would move their headquarters and future programs to Texas and Nevada.

 

Staffers for Newsom responded to the announcement by claiming that the law “protects the child-parent relationship” and prevents schools from “intervening in family matters and attempting to control if, when, and how families have deeply personal conversations.”

 

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