SpaceX CEO and X owner Elon Musk said on Tuesday that he will move the headquarters of both companies from California to Texas.
Musk vowed to take these actions in response to California’s Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom signing a new law that prohibits school districts in the state from requiring parents to inform their children of changes in gender identity. Newsom signed the student transgender law on Monday.
“This is the last straw. Because this law, and many others before it, hit families and companies alike, SpaceX will now move its headquarters from Hawthorne, California, to Starbase, Texas,” Musk said Post on X. He later added that X headquarters would also be moving from San Francisco to Austin.
“About a year ago, I did make it clear to Governor Newsom that a law of this nature would force families and companies to leave California to protect their children,” he added.
2022, People magazine report, MuskThe daughter, then 18, was allowed to legally change her name and gender to Vivian Jenna Wilson. She dropped Musk’s surname and adopted her mother’s maiden name, Justin Wilson.
In October 2022, when asked about his estranged transgender daughter, Musk told Financial Times “Can’t win ’em all” and claims to have a good relationship with all the other kids.
Musk also told the Financial Times that his daughter’s decision was caused by “neo-Marxists” in the educational establishment.
Musk’s recent Support former President Donald Trump Reportedly planning to donate $45 million per month A pro-Trump super PAC called American PAC.
If Trump is re-elected as president this year, he is expected to roll back transgender rights.
this News on the 19th According to reports, citing Trump’s February 2023 campaign video, his proposal would “end Medicare and Medicaid funding for hospitals that provide gender-affirming care to transgender youth in an attempt to charge teachers who affirm their students’ gender identities with sex discrimination,” and ordered federal agencies to cease all programs that promote gender concepts and gender transition at any age.
this American Academy of Pediatrics and other major medical organizations, including the American Medical Association, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, and the World Health Organization, “support providing transgender youth the health care they need.”
In 2021, Musk, who also serves as CEO Teslamoving its automaker’s corporate headquarters from Palo Alto, Calif., to Austin.
SpaceX did not immediately respond to a request for more information, including whether the company might shut down its Hawthorne operations.
When Tesla moved its headquarters to Texas, it retained its Palo Alto office as its “engineering headquarters.”
