Elon Musk has mentioned California’s new gender identification legislation was the “final straw” and that he’s transferring the SpaceX and X headquarters to Texas.
The billionaire posted on X on Tuesday that he plans to maneuver SpaceX from Hawthorne, California, to Starbase, Texas, and X to Austin from San Francisco.
The brand new legislation, signed on Monday by California governor Gavin Newsom, bars faculty districts from requiring employees to inform mother and father of their baby’s gender identification change.
“This is the final straw,” Mr Musk wrote
“I did make it clear to Governor Newsom about a year ago that laws of this nature would force families and companies to leave California to protect their children.”
Tesla, the place Mr Musk is chief government, moved its company headquarters to Austin from Palo Alto, California, in 2021.
Mr Musk has additionally mentioned he has moved his residence from California to Texas, the place there isn’t a state private revenue tax.
On Monday, it was reported by Bloomberg he was donating to a political group working to elect presidential candidate Donald Trump.
Based on the Wall Road Journal, this determine was going to be round $45m (£35m) a month.
