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

Elon Musk is moving some SpaceX and X office retired of California and into Texas complete nan wide state's caller gender personality laws.

The 52-year-old billionaire announced nan awesome move connected Tuesday, saying Gov. Gavin Newsom's signing of a rule that bans California schoolhouse districts from notifying parents if their kid is transgender was 'the last straw.'

'Because of this rule and nan galore others that preceded it, attacking some families and companies, SpaceX will now move its HQ from Hawthorne, California to Starbase, Texas,' he wrote connected X. 

'I did make it clear to Gov. Newsom astir a twelvemonth agone that laws of this quality would unit families and companies to time off California to protect their children.'

Musk later added that nan societal media tract will besides beryllium moving its office from San Francisco to Austin, saying he has 'had capable of dodging gangs of convulsive supplier addicts conscionable to get successful and retired of nan building.'

He went connected to propose 'many will follow' and noted successful a follow-up station that 'Doug Leone of Sequoia Capital publically voiced his support for Trump six weeks ago.

'Silicon Valley has shifted,' Musk said.

The billionaire has already moved Tesla's office from Palo Alto, California to Austin aft Alameda County officials would not fto him re-open nan works under coronavirus restrictions - contempt Newsom announcing that manufacturers could restart operations.

He followed done connected nan promise astir a twelvemonth later, lauding Texas' deficiency of an income taxation and nan abundance of lodging successful nan area - though he announced he would still support Tesla's 'engineering headquarters' successful California.

Musk himself had moreover moved to nan Lone Star authorities successful 2020 aft surviving successful California for 2 decades and has already been successful nan process of moving SpaceX to Texas arsenic he spoke retired against California's wide policies.

He has rallied against nan usage of preferred pronouns - often mocking nan believe connected societal media and dismissing it arsenic portion of a 'woke' schedule that is vulnerable for society.

Musk is nan begetter of a trans girl from whom he is estranged, and he blames her California backstage schoolhouse acquisition for making her politically acold near and turning her against him. 

California Gov. Gavin Newsom has been connected nan other side, however, often championing these woke ideals  - moreover though he, too, has moved his family retired of 1 of nan state's largest cities and into an exclusive area.

On Monday, he enacted a rule that blocks nationalist schoolhouse districts from requiring unit to notify parents erstwhile their children alteration nan pronouns they usage successful class.

It reversed decisions successful much blimpish schoolhouse districts that ordered teachers to notify parents if a student changed their sanction aliases pronouns, aliases requested to usage accommodation aliases participate successful programs that didn't lucifer their charismatic gender.  

Democratic authorities officials who pushed for nan law, based on that students person a correct to privacy, and that some LGBTQ+ students unrecorded successful unwelcoming households and request protection from their ain parents.

Trans activists besides based on that specified guidelines are vital, arsenic immoderate kids request protection from their old-fashioned parents who won't judge their desire to alteration sex.

But parents person since deed retired astatine nan policy, telling DailyMail.com nan rule would promote much schoolhouse districts to instrumentality their ain concealed activity alteration policies and time off moms and dads incapable to spot teachers.

They opportunity they should alternatively beryllium kept successful nan loop astir their child's gender identity. 

'This is simply a 5 siren occurrence ethically and legally because it excludes parents from knowing captious accusation astir their ain child's schoolhouse records,' said Erika Sanzi, from nan run group Parents Defending Education. 

'If a schoolhouse facilitates nan gender transition of a insignificant without notifying parents, they are engaged successful a psychosocial involution without parental consent.'

Some blimpish California lawmakers person besides blamed Newsom for nan tech companies' departures.

'Gavin Newsom's anti-parent schedule isn't conscionable bad for families - now it's doing superior harm to California's economy,' Assembly Republican Leader James Gallagher told nan Sacramento Bee.

'With nan highest unemployment complaint successful nan nation, you'd deliberation our politician would beryllium doing everything imaginable to protect jobs.

'Instead, he's pandering to extremists successful his statement by cutting parents retired of their kids' acquisition and driving moreover much businesses to battalion up for different states.'

DailyMail.com has reached retired to Newsom's agency for comment.

But successful an evident swipe astatine nan billionaire connected his ain platform, nan politician reposted erstwhile President Donald Trump's Truth Social station from 2022 bashing electrical vehicles and Musk.

The erstwhile president claimed successful nan station that Musk visited him successful nan Oval Office asking for thief 'on each of his galore subsidized projects' and telling him he was a 'big Trump instrumentality and Republican.

'I could person said "drop to your knees and beg," and he would person done it,' Trump wrote astatine nan time.

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