Elon Musk moving SpaceX and X headquarters from California to Texas over Gavin Newsom's new gender identity laws

By MELISSA KOENIG FOR DAILYMAIL.COM and AFP
PUBLISHED: 20:01 EDT, 16 July 2024 | UPDATED: 20:12 EDT, 16 July 2024

Elon Musk is moving both SpaceX and X headquarters out of California and into Texas over the liberal state's new gender identity laws.

The 52-year-old billionaire announced the major move on Tuesday, saying Gov. Gavin Newsom's signing of a law that bans California school districts from notifying parents if their child is transgender was '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,' he wrote on X.

'I did make it clear to Gov. Newsom about a year ago that laws of this nature would force families and companies to leave California to protect their children.'

Musk later added that the social media site will also be moving its headquarters from San Francisco to Austin, saying he has 'had enough of dodging gangs of violent drug addicts just to get in and out of the building.

He went on to suggest 'many will follow' and noted in a follow-up post that 'Doug Leone of Sequoia Capital publicly voiced his support for Trump six weeks ago.

'Silicon Valley has shifted,' Musk said.

The billionaire has already moved Tesla's headquarters from Palo Alto, California to Austin after Alameda County officials would not let him re-open the plant under coronavirus restrictions - despite Newsom announcing that manufacturers could restart operations.

He followed through on the promise about a year later, lauding Texas' lack of an income tax and the abundance of housing in the area - though he announced he would still maintain Tesla's 'engineering headquarters' in California.

Musk himself had even moved to the Lone Star state in 2020 after living in California for two decades and has already been in the process of moving SpaceX to Texas as he spoke out against California's liberal policies.

He has rallied against the use of preferred pronouns - often mocking the practice on social media and dismissing it as part of a 'woke' agenda that is dangerous for society.

Musk is the father of a trans daughter from whom he is estranged, and he blames her California private school education for making her politically far left and turning her against him.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom has been on the opposite side, however, often championing these woke ideals - even though he, too, has moved his family out of one of the state's largest cities and into an exclusive area.

On Monday, he enacted a law that blocks public school districts from requiring staff to notify parents when their children change the pronouns they use in class.

It reversed decisions in more conservative school districts that ordered teachers to notify parents if a student changed their name or pronouns, or requested to use facilities or participate in programs that didn't match their official gender.

Democratic state officials who pushed for the law, argued that students have a right to privacy, and that some LGBTQ+ students live in unwelcoming households and need protection from their own parents.

Trans activists also argued that such guidelines are vital, as some kids need protection from their old-fashioned parents who won't accept their desire to change sex.

But parents have since hit out at the policy, telling DailyMail.com the law would encourage more school districts to implement their own secret sex change policies and leave moms and dads unable to trust teachers.

They say they should instead be kept in the loop about their child's gender identity.

'This is a five alarm fire ethically and legally because it excludes parents from knowing vital information about their own child's school records,' said Erika Sanzi, from the campaign group Parents Defending Education.

'If a school facilitates the gender transition of a minor without notifying parents, they are engaged in a psychosocial intervention without parental consent.'

Some conservative California lawmakers have also blamed Newsom for the tech companies' departures.

'Gavin Newsom's anti-parent agenda isn't just bad for families - now it's doing serious damage to California's economy,' Assembly Republican Leader James Gallagher told the Sacramento Bee.

'With the highest unemployment rate in the nation, you'd think our governor would be doing everything possible to protect jobs.

'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.'

DailyMail.com has reached out to Newsom's office for comment.

But in an apparent swipe at the billionaire on his own platform, the governor reposted former President Donald Trump's Truth Social post from 2022 bashing electric vehicles and Musk.

The former president claimed in the post that Musk visited him in the Oval Office asking for help 'on all of his many subsidized projects' and telling him he was a 'big Trump fan and Republican.

'I could have said "drop to your knees and beg," and he would have done it,' Trump wrote at the time.

Newsom, though, wrote that the tycoon - who has endorsed Trump for president - has since 'bent the knee.'

Good. Not only move the company but also assist all the employees to relocate as well. Further deprive the state of money.

oddball previously linked the story.

https://sigforum.com/eve/forum...930057905#6930057905

^^^True, posted in that thread about Twitter and Elon. There's also the 'California sized' LGBTQ+ Insanity angle too, but this is a MUCH bigger/wider narrative that stands on it's own, deserving it's own discussion.

To add - I'd expect Elon to relocate Tesla's Engineering HQ out of California before too long as well.

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Originally posted by nhtagmember:
Good. Not only move the company but also assist all the employees to relocate as well. Further deprive the state of money.

I'm not sure Texas needs more leftist Californians relocating to the Lone Star State.

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Originally posted by Fenris:
I'm not sure Texas needs more leftist Californians relocating to the Lone Star State.

Not all Californians are leftists.

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Originally posted by 12131:

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Originally posted by Fenris:
I'm not sure Texas needs more leftist Californians relocating to the Lone Star State.

Not all Californians are leftists.

Yeah but there is a fuck ton of them moving here, the lefty kind. My friends in Austin are pissed. In the article it says the abundance of housing, that’s an absolute crock of shit. Austin area homes are already priced to the tune of what Cali housing costs. Austin was nothing more than a big college town, prior to the this mass influx of millions of people. It’s totally congested now, rivaling Los Angeles in traffic. I’m happy that Elon has done this but God help those in Austin. As all these people move in, many will be forced out.

Not sure how many rocket scientists are leftist.

^By definition, none.

Can we now say all my Xs live in Texas now?

Hey1

Newsboy. No that's not it. Newslum. Something like that. The head commie in Commiefornia.

I got a message for ya from Mr. Musk.

while I applaud the move out of California, and taking those that want to live in Texas with him, I'm disappointed that he chose to move to Austin

there are so many better places he could have gone, set up and created a whole new environment but as much as I would have liked to work for SpaceX, there is no way I would ever move to Austin

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Originally posted by 12131:

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Originally posted by Fenris:
I'm not sure Texas needs more leftist Californians relocating to the Lone Star State.

Not all Californians are leftists.

Thanks for the endorsement Q

He's doing what hundreds of other companies have already done.

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Originally posted by nhtagmember:
I would have liked to work for SpaceX, there is no way I would ever move to Austin

He moved Tesla HQ to Austin. Where does it say he's moving Space X to? Wouldn't it be closer to their launch facility? Like maybe Corpus Christi?

^^^^^^
“The SpaceX headquarters will move from Hawthorne to Starbase, Texas, [near Brownsville] while the X HQ will move from San Francisco to Austin, Musk said.”

This new law is another reason you won't see Newsom replacing SloJoe. One more thing to beat him over the head with that the majority find abhorrent.