{"id":5443,"date":"2024-07-17T15:06:00","date_gmt":"2024-07-17T15:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/2024\/07\/17\/elon-musk-says-california-gender-id-law-final-straw-as-he-moves-hqs-to-texas\/"},"modified":"2024-07-17T15:06:00","modified_gmt":"2024-07-17T15:06:00","slug":"elon-musk-says-california-gender-id-law-final-straw-as-he-moves-hqs-to-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/2024\/07\/17\/elon-musk-says-california-gender-id-law-final-straw-as-he-moves-hqs-to-texas\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk says California gender ID law \u2018final straw\u2019 as he moves HQs to Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Elon Musk has said California&#8217;s new gender identification law was the &#8220;final straw&#8221; and that he is moving the SpaceX and X headquarters to Texas.<\/p>\n<p>The billionaire posted on X on Tuesday that he plans to move SpaceX from Hawthorne, California, to Starbase, Texas, and X to Austin from San Francisco.<\/p>\n<div class=\"sdc-site-outbrain sdc-site-outbrain--AR_6\" aria-hidden=\"true\" data-component-name=\"sdc-site-outbrain\" data-target=\"\" data-widget-mapping=\"\" data-installation-keys=\"\">    <\/div>\n<p>The new law, signed on Monday by California governor Gavin Newsom, bars school districts from requiring staff to notify parents of their child&#8217;s gender identification change.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is the final straw,&#8221; <strong>Mr Musk<\/strong> wrote<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;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.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"ad ad--teads\">        <\/div>\n<p>Tesla, where Mr Musk is chief executive, moved its corporate headquarters to Austin from Palo Alto, California, in 2021.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Musk has also said he has moved his residence from California to Texas, where there is no state personal income tax.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, it was reported by Bloomberg he was <strong>donating to a political group<\/strong> working to elect presidential candidate Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Wall Street Journal, this figure was going to be around $45m (\u00a335m) a month.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<div>This post appeared first on sky.com<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elon Musk has said California&#8217;s new gender identification law was the &#8220;final straw&#8221; and that&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5443"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5443\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}