Elon Musk to Move X, SpaceX Headquarters from California to Texas
Billionaire Elon Musk said Tuesday he is moving the headquarters of X and SpaceX out of California after governor Gavin Newsom signed a bill preventing schools from notifying parents if a child changes their gender identity.
“This is the final straw,” Musk said in a social-media post Tuesday afternoon, referring to the new law. “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 said he previously told the California governor a new law like this one would “force families and companies to leave California to protect their children.”
The Republican leader in the California general assembly, James Gallagher, said the law is “bad for families” and “doing serious damage to California’s economy.” “With the highest unemployment rate in the nation, you’d think our governor would be doing everything possible to protect jobs,” Gallagher said in a statement. “Instead, he’s pandering to extremists in his party by cutting parents out of their kids’ education and driving even more businesses to pack up for other states.”
The California Policy Center, a conservative think tank in the Golden State, said the new law “opens the door to child exploitation.” “Gov. Newsom has okayed a bill that was based on the flawed logic that parents are dangerous and not to be trusted, and that the state or strangers are better positioned to deal with the difficulties of adolescence than parents,” said Lance Christensen, vice president of education policy and government affairs. “Hundreds of millions of dollars in settlements with victims of sex assault by public school employees is evidence that the opposite is too often true.”