X And SpaceX Moving Headquarters From California To Texas, Musk Says

Musk announced the company would be moving in a post on X, saying the move is “because of this law and the many others that preceded it, attacking both families and companies.”

Newsom signed the Support Academic Futures and Educators for Today’s Youth Act, or SAFETY Act—which prevents a school employee from being required “to disclose any information related to a pupil’s sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression to any other person without the pupil’s consent”—on Monday.

The law makes California the first state in the U.S. to ban policies that force schools to out students by requiring they notify parents if a student wants to use a name or pronoun other than what’s on their birth certificate, The Mercury News reported.

In a follow up tweet, Musk said he made it clear to Newsom “about a year ago that laws of this nature would force families and companies to leave California to protect their children.”

Musk said the headquarters will be moved out of Hawthorne, California, to Starbase, a SpaceX complex and launch site near Brownsville, Texas.

X will move its headquarters from San Francisco to Austin, Musk added, saying: “Have had enough of dodging gangs of violent drug addicts just to get in and out of the building.”