SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has announced that he will move his company’s headquarters to other states due to a new law related to the privacy of LGBTQ children.
Elon Musk announced Tuesday (July 16) that he would move SpaceX from Hawthorne, California, the state where the law was signed, to Texas, where the company is conducting Starship launches. Texas leans in a different political direction than California; Several new laws in the Lone Star State aimed at diminishing the rights of LGBTQ communities and reproductive rights prompted legal teams to file a complaint with the United Nations in January, according to the Texas Standard.
California’s new law, signed Tuesday by Gov. Gavin Newsom, prohibits schools from informing parents if their child changes their name or pronoun and requires confidentiality. It’s the first law of its kind in the United States and came after more than a dozen conservative-led California school forums over the past year pursued policies requiring parents to be informed, according to the New York Times.
“The governor of California just signed a bill that causes a major destruction of parental rights and puts young people in danger of permanent harm,” Musk wrote on X, formerly Twitter, owned by the billionaire co-founder of PayPal. from San Francisco to Austin, Texas, Musk wrote in a separate post. Among Musk’s young people is a transgender woman who cut off all communication with him due to political disagreements between the two.
In 2022, Musk’s transgender daughter filed a request to replace her call and obtain a new birth certificate in Los Angeles County Superior Court in Santa Monica, according to Reuters. “I no longer live with or wish to be connected to my biological father in any way,” she wrote.
Musk later told the Financial Times that he believed his daughter had disowned him because, he said, “neo-Marxists” ran more sensible universities and schools like the ones his daughter attends.
“It’s communism in itself [. . . ] and a general feeling that if you’re rich, you’re bad,” Musk said in the interview, about his opinion on what elite educational establishments represent. Regarding his daughter, he added: “[The dating] may change, but I have a very intelligent relationship with all the other [children]. I can’t win them all. “
Musk, 53, is the father of 12 young acquaintances along with 3 other women, according to media reports. Musk told staff at electric car maker Tesla (another company he owns) in 2021 that “if other people don’t have more children, civilization is going to collapse,” Wired once wrote.
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Also in recent days, the Wall Street Journal revealed that Musk is contributing $45 million a month to former President Donald Trump’s Republican bid for re-election to the Oval Office in 2024. GLAAD, an LGBTQ rights nonprofit , has tracked many tactics Trump operates on. opposed to this community.
GLAAD notes that anti-LGBTQ+ states tend to attack other teams as well. “States proposing spending targeting general physical care for transgender people have also passed and proposed restrictive maximum bans on abortion,” GLAAD wrote. In Texas alone, GLAAD says there have been more than 140 anti-LGBTQ expenditures in the last year, in addition to other legislation restricting reproductive care.
Restrictive care policies in the wake of Roe v. Wade in 2022 have also been condemned by fitness organizations across the United States, warning that rights taken away from disadvantaged equipment tend to spread to broader populations over time.
“People who do not abort are more likely to enjoy worse physical and intellectual condition, greater poverty, and prolonged contact with abusers, for example. LGBTQ+ youth face increased stigma, increased intellectual aptitude factors, and are forced into medical care. “an American Psychological Association article noted in January. The factor in the United States in general, the article adds, is “the question of physical autonomy and the right of Americans to make their own decisions. “
Thousands of painters paint at SpaceX. Earlier this month, eight former engineers filed a lawsuit, alleging that Musk engaged in “sexual harassment and retaliation,” according to Wired. SpaceX has faced lawsuits in the past over its labor practices. The US Department of Justice sued the company in 2023, alleging that asylum seekers or refugees were discriminated against, among other recent incidents.
In addition, SpaceX has been accused of committing environmental problems in Texas to temporarily lift off the Starship spacecraft to fulfill its contractual obligations, adding astronauts to the Moon landing for NASA’s Artemis program in 2026. The first space release attempt of the Starship spacecraft in April 2023 dropped concrete. . blocks of release platforms in the surrounding area, which constitute an environmental refuge.
Although SpaceX has made adjustments to the platform design, reports of damage continue. Earlier this month, a New York Times investigation flagged widespread concerns about the impact of Starship’s most recent launches on wildlife. The news comes as SpaceX attempts to expand Starship off the coast of Florida, somewhere else protected for vulnerable species.
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Musk’s headquarters announcement Tuesday comes less than a week after his company’s entire fleet of Falcon nine rockets was grounded following the launch of a set of 20 Starlink broadband satellites, also a SpaceX business. . SpaceX, which posts flashy rocket updates on social media, temporarily followed up the bad news with new images of Starship undergoing a static fire to prepare for a long-term launch.
The second level of the Falcon 9 interrupted the dispatch of the Starlinks, which will return to Earth. SpaceX says it has made progress in understanding the reason. He also asked the Federal Aviation Administration on Monday, July 15, to allow the launches to continue. even if the mandatory investigation into the crash continues, according to Spaceflight Now.
There are two high-profile Falcon Nine launches coming up in the weeks when SpaceX likely needs to stick around on schedule: the July 31 Polaris Dawn personal publicity project funded through billionaire Jared Isaacman; and a mid-August astronaut launch from the International Space Station for NASA, known as Crew-nine.
Falcon Nine brings lucrative NASA and military contracts to SpaceX as one of the most reliable (and introduced) rocket lines in history. Different variants of the rocket release humans and satellites. SpaceX figures suggest Falcon Nine has successfully launched 364 times in 14 years. , with only two failures.
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Musk’s acquisition of what was then called Twitter in October 2022 brought the billionaire entrepreneur into a domain of political influence that is said to shape far-right discourse. In fact, Musk cited the extremist and anti-LGBTQ account “Libs of TikTok” among his waves of posts on Tuesday related to the California law.
In addition to investing in Trump’s presidential bid, Musk’s influence, especially with Starlink, also extends widely to foreign relations. According to The Guardian, a best-selling 2023 biography by Walter Isaacson recounts an incident in which Musk allegedly ordered his SpaceX engineers to disable Starlink facilities. intended for an attack with Ukrainian drones opposed to the Russians.
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The offensive took place in the long-running war in Ukraine, which Russia provoked and condemned around the world in 2022. NASA is one of many space agencies that have withdrawn from collaboration with Russia since the start of the war, with the exception of the ISS.
Musk’s moves in Ukraine reportedly included interacting with one of the country’s deputy prime ministers about the drone attack, almost like a personal diplomat. Congressional Democrats said in March they would investigate the Starlink drone incident and Musk’s influence, The Guardian wrote in a separate report.
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Elizabeth Howell (she/her), Ph. D. , has been editor of the Spaceflight Channel since 2022 and also covers diversity, education, and gaming. She worked as an editor for Space. com for 10 years before joining the organization full time. Elizabeth’s reporting includes multiple exclusives with the White House and the Office of the Vice President of the United States, an exclusive verbal exchange with aspiring local tourist (and NSYNC bassist) Lance Bass, speaking several times to the International Space Station and helping five human beings. area flight launches. on two continents, flying parabolic, running in a space suit and participating in a simulated Mars project. Her most recent book, “Why Am I Taller?”, is co-written with astronaut Dave Williams. Elizabeth has a Ph. D. and M. Sc. in Space Studies from the University of North Dakota, a BA in Journalism from Carleton University in Canada, and a BA in History from Athabasca University in Canada. Elizabeth has also been a post-secondary science and communications instructor at various facilities since 2015; Her experience includes creating and teaching an astronomy course at Algonquin University in Canada (also with Indigenous content) to over 1,000 students as of 2020. Elizabeth first became interested in space after watching the movie Apollo 13 in 1996. , and he still wants an astronaut. One day. Giant: https://qoto. org/@howellarea
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