Tech CEO Elon Musk last week revealed that the headquarters of both his rocket company SpaceX and his social media platform X would be relocating to Texas after California Governor Gavin Newsom signed into law a bill prohibiting school districts in the state from requiring teachers to inform parents if their child is transgender.
Musk, who moved the headquarters of Tesla out of California to Austin in 2021, said in a July 16 post on X that the SAFETY Act was “the final straw.” He said the law, like many others recently enacted in the state, was an attack on companies and families.
In a follow-up post, Musk said he had previously warned Governor Newsom that laws like the SAFETY Act would prompt companies and families to flee California as a way “to protect their children.”
SpaceX’s headquarters will be relocated to the company city of Starbase, Texas. Musk also reiterated that he would move X’s headquarters to Austin, saying in a post that he was tired of dodging drug addicts in San Francisco every time he visited X’s headquarters.
The tech billionaire’s son came out as transgender several years ago and recently petitioned to legally change his name to Vivian Wilson, telling a California court that he did not want to share his famous father’s last name.
The tech CEO has been slowly moving the operations of his various ventures to the state of Texas over the past several years. In late 2020, Musk said that he would also be relocating to Texas when Tesla’s headquarters moved to Austin.
After a judge in Delaware invalidated the electric car company’s employee compensation plan in February, Musk responded by transferring SpaceX’s incorporation from Delaware to Texas.
Musk’s decision to move SpaceX and X to Texas came just days after he endorsed Donald Trump for president.
