Elon Musk stated yesterday (16/7) that he’ll transfer its headquarters social networking platform X and the rocket manufacturing firm SpaceX from California, after Gov. Gavin Newsom gave the inexperienced gentle to new protections for transgender and homosexual college students in colleges.
The governor of California simply signed a invoice inflicting huge destruction of parental rights and placing youngsters in danger for everlasting harm.
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— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 16, 2024
The legislation, signed by Newsom on Monday (7/15), prevents colleges from requiring workers to tell mother and father whose youngsters present indicators of being transgender or share details about their sexual orientation.
The transgender legislation
The legislation was written in response to the so-called mother and father’ rights motion that led no less than seven faculty boards within the state to move guidelines within the final 12 months that required lecturers to inform mother and father if their youngster started utilizing a reputation or pronoun that they do not match their gender assigned at delivery.
“This was the ultimate straw,” the South African billionaire wrote in his submit on X. He added that his resolution has to do with that legislation “and lots of others that got here earlier than it that assault each households and corporations.” Consequently, Musk wrote to X that he’ll transfer SpaceX’s headquarters from Hawthorne in Southern California to Starbase in Texas. X, which is headquartered in downtown San Francisco, will transfer to Austin, Musk stated.
He denounces the authorized framework for trans folks
This isn’t the primary time he has threatened to depart California attributable to political variations. Through the pandemic, Musk additionally sued California and threatened to maneuver Tesla’s headquarters to Texas due to the state’s Covid-19 restrictions, which have been among the many strictest within the nation. In early 2023, Musk introduced a few of Tesla’s operations again to California, opening the engineering headquarters in Silicon Valley.
Musk blamed the brand new transgender authorized framework for his resolution, although earlier media studies point out he was contemplating X’s relocation lengthy earlier than Newsom signed the legislation.
Showdown with California Democrats
Musk has been vocal about his political opinions in recent times, typically clashing with California’s Democratic management. Earlier this week, he introduced he would pour $45 million a month right into a political motion committee to assist former President Donald Trump’s re-election bid.
His response to the brand new transgender legislation was decried by one other outstanding voice from California — former decathlete Caitlyn Jenner, who got here out as transgender in 2015.
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