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On Tuesday, Elon Musk announced that due to a California law preventing schools from requiring teachers to inform parents about a student's gender identity changes, he plans to relocate the headquarters of SpaceX and X to Texas.

 

"This is the final straw," Musk said on X.

 

"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."

 

The billionaire mentioned that he is relocating X from its art-deco headquarters in San Francisco to Austin, a promise he has previously made but never fulfilled.

 

Musk has already moved Tesla's headquarters from Palo Alto in Silicon Valley to Austin, Texas.

 

"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," Musk wrote.

 

Elon Musk has shown strong disapproval for the use of preferred pronouns, frequently ridiculing the practice on social media and disregarding it as part of a "woke" agenda that he believes is harmful to society.

 

On Monday, Governor Gavin Newsom approved the bill after a heated legislative process that pitted a few school boards advocating for parental rights against LGBTQ activists who were concerned about the well-being of vulnerable students.

 

The law overturned rulings in conservative school districts that mandated teachers to inform parents if a student changed their name or pronouns or requested to use facilities or participate in programs that didn't align with their official gender.