“This Is The Final Straw”, Elon Musk Plans To Move Companies Out Of California Over Trans Law

The billionaire said he would relocate the companies’ headquarters to Texas after California Governor Gavin Newsom signed the first-of-its-kind law barring policies that require educators to disclose when a student asks to use a different name or pronouns.

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“This Is The Final Straw”, Elon Musk Plans To Move Companies Out Of California Over Trans Law

“This Is The Final Straw”, Elon Musk Plans To Move Companies Out Of California Over Trans Law

Elon Musk said he “had enough”, and will move SpaceX and X out of California over a law that bans schools from forcing teachers to notify parents when their child changes their gender identity.

The billionaire said he would relocate the companies’ headquarters to Texas after California Governor Gavin Newsom signed the first-of-its-kind law barring policies that require educators to disclose when a student asks to use a different name or pronouns.

Taking to X, he said “This is the final straw. Because of this law and the many others that preceded it, attacking both families and companies, SpaceX will now move its HQ from Hawthorne, California, to Starbase, Texas”.

Musk, who has an adult transgender daughter, said that he had previously told Newsom “that laws of this nature would force families and companies to leave California to protect their children”.

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In his follow-up post, he said he would also relocate X, from San Francisco to Austin. He said he had “had enough of dodging gangs of violent drug addicts just to get in and out of the building”.

Recently, Musk has been seen gravitating towards Texas, which has no state corporate or income tax and is known for its conservative politics.

In 2021, he shifted Tesla’s headquarters from Palo Alto in Silicon Valley to Austin, Texas, and changed his residence from California to Texas. Tesla, one of the most valuable car company in the world, still maintains an “engineering headquarters” in California.

Elon Musk has started to speak his minds out about his political views since taking over X in 2022, often taking aim at policies and public figures he considers excessively left-wing, or “woke”.

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Last week, he announced that he was endorsing Donald Trump for president shortly after the Republican candidate narrowly survived an attempted assassination.

While Texas has been a conservative forte, with all three branches of the state government held by the Republican Party, California is considered one of the most liberal US states, with the governorship and both chambers of the state legislature controlled by the Democratic Party.