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Elon Musk says he is moving his companies out of California.
In two posts on X Tuesday, the billionaire said he would move SpaceX headquarters from Hawthorne, California, to Starbase, Texas, a corporate development being built in the south of the state. The social media platform X will move from San Francisco to Austin, Texas, he said.
Musk said the SAFETY Act – a bill signed by California Governor Gavin Newsom that would prohibit school districts from requiring teachers to inform parents if a child wishes to identify as a different gender – was “the straw that broke the camel's back.”
“Due to this law and many others before it that attacked both families and businesses, SpaceX will now move its headquarters from Hawthorne, California to Starbase, Texas,” Musk posted on X.
One of Musk's children filed a petition in a California court in 2022 to acknowledge her new name and gender, stating that she no longer wanted to be related to her famous and wealthy father “in any way.” Musk has been criticized for some of his statements on gender identity issues on X.
In a follow-up post, Musk said he was fed up with the violent crime surrounding the San Francisco building where X is located.
Musk has had a fondness for the Lone Star State for several years. In February, SpaceX filed to move its headquarters from Delaware to Texas after a Delaware state judge invalidated Musk's 2018 Tesla pay package, siding with a shareholder who challenged it as excessive.
In 2021, Musk said he would move Tesla headquarters from the Bay Area to Austin, Texas. And Musk said in December 2020 that he had moved to Texas.
CNN has reached out to X, SpaceX and Newsom's office for comment.
CNN's Chris Isidore contributed to this report.
