Musk to move Space X and X headquarters to Texas in protest over Californias gender identity law
On Tuesday, billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk announced that he was moving his companies X and Space X from California to Texas. Musk has said that the relocation of his two companies headquarters is in protest at a new gender identity law in California which he opposes. On Monday, July 15th, California s Democratic Governor, Gavin Newsom, signed new legislation on gender identity. The bill makes California the first US state to ban schools from informing parents of their child s desire to change their gender identity, or be addressed by different pronouns or names. LGBTQ+ organizations say the law protects transgender children living in hostile family situations. Since the bill was signed into law, a southern California school district has sued Gov. Newsom, claiming the law undermines the parentchild relationship. Emily Rae, a lawyer representing the school district, has said that school officials do not have the right to keep secrets from parents, but parents do have a constitutiona
|
|