David Najab, director of organizational partnerships at Gearbox Software, developer of "Borderlands 3," warned that if Texas continues to pursue laws targeting transgender people, the company may consider moving out of Texas. He warned that the company may consider relocating out of Texas.

As reported by NBCDFW, Gearbox, along with other companies including Amazon, Dell, HP, IBM, Microsoft, and PayPal, "exclude transgender youth from full participation in their communities, a life-saving and proven opposed "reviving efforts to criminalize or ban best-practice health care or to exclude LGBTQ people from accessing health care, filling prescriptions, and in a variety of other settings, including seeking legal representation.

"Such legislation sends a message that is at odds with the Texas we know and our own efforts to attract and retain the best talent and compete for business," the open letter submitted by the business group stated.

"We continue to oppose any unnecessary and divisive measures that would harm Texas' reputation and make our customers, visitors, employees, and their families feel unwelcome or unsafe."

The letter was written in response to the passage last week of Texas Senate Bill 29, the Fair Sports for Women and Girls Act, which would require public school students to participate in athletic competition based on their biological sex at birth.

In testimony before the Texas House of Representatives, Najab said that bills like S29 are bad for the state and could force companies like Gearbox, founded in 1999 and based in Frisco, Texas, to look elsewhere for future opportunities. [Our gaming companies compete all over the world. We export more to Asia than we do within the US. We bring a lot of money to this state and are headquartered here. We don't want to put ourselves in a position where we are forced to expand outside of Texas or out of the country."

Najab also compared the bill to a "bathroom bill" that was proposed in a number of states, including Texas, several years ago that would require transgender people to use the bathroom in schools and in government based on the gender they were assigned at birth. 'Make no mistake, we are in danger of going back to the days of the 2017 bathroom bill,' he told NBCDFW. 'Like the bathroom bill, we are being presented with a solution looking for a problem.'

Gearbox declined to comment further on the possibility of moving out of state, but it would not be unprecedented: earlier this month, Major League Baseball moved the 2021 All-Star Game from Atlanta, Georgia.