Billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk announced on Tuesday his decision to relocate the headquarters of SpaceX and X (formerly Twitter) from Democrat-led California to Republican-governed Texas. This surprising move is a direct response to Governor Gavin Newsom signing a bill that prevents school districts from informing parents when children change their preferred pronouns, gender identity, or sexual orientation.

“This is the breaking point,” Musk stated in a post on X. “Due to this law and several others before it, which undermine both families and businesses, SpaceX will now transfer its headquarters from Hawthorne, California, to Starbase, Texas.”

In a subsequent post, he mentioned, “I informed Governor Newsom about a year ago that such laws would compel families and businesses to leave California to safeguard their children.”

A subsequent post also said that X, currently headquartered in San Francisco, would move to Austin, Texas, given that Musk has “had enough of dodging gangs of violent drug addicts just to get in and out of the building.”

AB1955, signed into law by Governor Newsom on Monday, "prohibits school districts, county education offices, charter schools, and state special schools, as well as members of their governing boards, from implementing or enforcing any policy, rule, or administrative regulation that mandates an employee or contractor to disclose any information regarding a pupil's sexual orientation, gender identity, or gender expression to any other person without the pupil's consent, unless otherwise required by law."