マスク氏、Ｘなどの本社移転表明　米加州でのトランス新法成立受け

【サンフランシスコＡＦＰ＝時事】実業家のイーロン・マスク氏は１６日、米カリフォルニア州で生徒が性自認を変えたことを教師が保護者に通知するのを禁じる新法が成立したことを受け、宇宙開発企業スペースＸおよびＸ（旧ツイッター）の本社を同州からテキサス州に移転すると表明した。（写真は実業家のイーロン・マスク氏）
　カリフォルニア州の保守的な学区では従来、生徒が自身の名前や代名詞を変更した場合、または、ジェンダーが異なる施設の利用やプログラムへの参加を希望した場合、教師は保護者への通知を義務付けられていた。
　新法をめぐっては、保護者の権利を要求する教育委員会の一部と、弱い立場にある生徒の幸福を懸念する性的少数者（ＬＧＢＴＱ）の活動家が対立し、文化闘争に発展していた。
　ギャビン・ニューサム知事の署名を経て新法が成立した翌日、マスク氏はＸに「もう限界だ」と投稿。
　「この法律や、それ以前の多くの法律で、家族も企業も攻撃されているため、スペースＸは本社をカリフォルニア州ホーソーンからテキサス州の（同社施設がある）スターベースに移転する」と表明した。
　さらに、Ｘの本社もサンフランシスコからテキサス州オースティンに移転すると述べた。マスク氏は以前にも本社移転を辞さない考えを示していたが、実行に移したことはなかった。
　マスク氏は以前から、希望する代名詞を使用する慣習を侮蔑し、社会問題に対する意識が高い「ウォーク」な政策の一つで、社会にとって危険だと主張してきた。
　マスク氏は、トランスジェンダーの娘と絶縁状態にあり、カリフォルニア州の私立学校で教育を受けたせいで娘は極左になり、自身と対立するようになったと非難している。【翻訳編集ＡＦＰＢＢＮｅｗｓ】
〔ＡＦＰ＝時事〕（2024/07/17-17:09）

Elon Musk on Tuesday said he will move the headquarters of SpaceX and X to Texas after a California law blocked schools from forcing teachers to notify parents about changes to a student's gender identity.
This is the final straw, Musk said on X a day after California governor Gavin Newsom signed the bill that fired up the already fraught culture wars in a tumultuous US election year.
Because of this law and the many others that preceded it, attacking both families and companies, SpaceX will now move its HQ from Hawthorne, California, to Starbase, Texas, Musk said.
The multi-billionaire also said that he is transferring X, formerly Twitter, from its art-deco headquarters in San Francisco to Austin, a threat he has made before but never saw to completion.
Have had enough of dodging gangs of violent drug addicts just to get in and out of the building, Musk wrote.
Musk has already moved Tesla's headquarters from Palo Alto in Silicon Valley to Austin, Texas, but still maintains an engineering headquarters in California.
The tycoon has expressed deep disdain for the use of preferred pronouns, often mocking the practice on social media and dismissing it as part of a woke agenda that was dangerous for society.
Musk is the father of a trans daughter from whom he is estranged, and he blames her California private school education for making her politically far left and turning her against him.
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Newsom on Monday enacted the law after a contentious legislative process that pitted a handful of school boards fighting for parental rights against LGBTQ activists concerned about the welfare of vulnerable students.
The law reversed decisions in conservative school districts that ordered teachers to notify parents if a student changed their name or pronouns, or requested to use facilities or participate in programs that didn't match their official gender.
Newsom, who is seen as a potential alternative to President Joe Biden as the Democratic candidate for the White House, has often exchanged fire with conservatives over gender issues at state schools.
Last year, he signed a law that sets fines for school districts that ban textbooks portraying LGBTQ people and other marginalized groups.
Newsom also fought bitterly with a conservative school board over its opposition to the study of gay rights figure Harvey Milk, a San Francisco public official who was assassinated.
Musk has previously sparred with Newsom, who is a former San Francisco mayor, during the deadliest stages of the Covid-19 pandemic when he challenged the decisions of city and state health officials.