Elon Musk has said that he is moving X/Twitter out of California because of new laws to protect trans students that were brought in last week.
In a post on the social media platform, Musk said he was moving X/Twitter offices out of the region after the state governor, Gavin Newsom, signed a new law prohibiting school districts from informing parents if their children opt to change their gender.
Newsom signed the law last week on July 15. Also known as the ‘SAFETY Act’, which prevents schools having to notify parents if a child chooses to use a different pronoun than what is on their birth certificate.
“This is the final straw,” Musk wrote on X/Twitter. “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 continued: “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.”
In a second post on X, Musk said the headquarters for the social media company would move to Austin, Texas from its current base in San Francisco. He also went on to say that he was unhappy with violence in the area, claiming that he was “dodging violent drug addicts” to “get in and out of the building.”
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
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 16, 2024
Have had enough of dodging gangs of violent drug addicts just to get in and out of the building
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 16, 2024
In other recent Musk news, the first human patient for his Neuralink programme of implantable brain-computer interfacing shared a video that showed him playing Mario Kart 8 using just the Neuralink chip.
Noland Arbaugh is paralysed from the neck down, and in the video he praised the chip’s ability to let him enjoy gaming: “Anything that makes me more independent I’m all for and this is probably going to make people like me the most independent that they might ever be until it all gets cured.”