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Best-Selling Controversial Book on Transgender People Removed From Amazon 3 Years After Publication
Newsweek ^ | February 22, 2021 | Katherine Fung

Posted on 02/25/2021 12:01:38 PM PST by grundle

Ryan Anderson’s When Harry Became Sally was removed from Amazon’s cyber shelves Sunday, three years after the controversial best-seller was published on February 20, 2018.

Anderson told Newsweek that he discovered that his book had vanished from Amazon—as well as the company’s e-reader Kindle, podcast service Audible and used-book sellers—when someone looking to buy a copy informed the author. He said that neither he nor his publisher were notified by Amazon.

In 2018, the book hit No. 1 on two of Amazon’s best-seller list before it was even released, but sparked controversy for arguing that society’s growing acceptance of transgender people stems more from ideology than science.

“We need to respect the dignity of people who identify as transgender,” Anderson argued in the book, “but without encouraging children to undergo experimental transition treatments, and without trampling on the needs and interests of others.”

While the book was well-received by conservatives, LGBTQ activists have dismissed the book as anti-trans and “dangerous.”

“People who have actually read my book discovered that it was a thoughtful and accessible presentation of the state of the scientific, medical, philosophical and legal debates,” Anderson told Newsweek. “Yes, it advances an argument from a certain viewpoint. No, it didn’t get any facts wrong, and it didn’t engage in any name-calling.”

He argues that the book’s research is more important than ever before given the recent push for trans policies from the new Biden administration.

“Three years after publication, in the very same week that the House of Representatives is going to ram through a radical transgender bill amending the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Amazon erases my book opposing gender ideology from their cyber shelves,”

(Excerpt) Read more at newsweek.com ...


TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: 1984; amazon; bannedinamazon; bookburning; cancelculture; censorship; farenheit451; gaynewsrooms; homofascism; moreoldnews; newsweak; pinkjournalism; ryananderson; trustthescience; whenharrymetsally
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1 posted on 02/25/2021 12:01:38 PM PST by grundle
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To: grundle

Sell it through Walmart or Barnes & Noble.


2 posted on 02/25/2021 12:03:17 PM PST by lee martell
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To: lee martell

Out of stock at Walmart. Still available at B&N.
https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/when-harry-became-sally-ryan-anderson/1125792437


3 posted on 02/25/2021 12:07:27 PM PST by FamiliarFace
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To: FamiliarFace

Oops, out of stock online there too.


4 posted on 02/25/2021 12:08:44 PM PST by FamiliarFace
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To: grundle

We do NOT need to respect trans ... they are crazy and should be treated as such.


5 posted on 02/25/2021 12:09:55 PM PST by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: grundle

I have seen articles and interviews over the years of people who had irreversible surgery and profoundly regret it. My guess is that material is now hard to find. The suicide rate of transgenders is so high that, at least last I heard, John’s Hopkins refused to perform the surgery. That’s probably changed. Having had surgery on several body parts, even though they were successful, for the most part, they aren’t the same as before. Feet and hands are not nearly as delicate in their functions and sensations as sex organs. Also, I suspect we don’t understand the long term effects of radically altering our hormones.


6 posted on 02/25/2021 12:15:32 PM PST by Gen.Blather (Wait! I said that out loud? )
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To: grundle

Shockingly enough, customers can still get Mein Kampf, The Quotations of Chairman Mao (Mao’s Little Red Bood), or a Koran on Amazon.


7 posted on 02/25/2021 12:32:02 PM PST by Little Ray (The Government is always its own largest and most important Special Interest. .)
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To: grundle

Watch as Amazon will step up and pay for more publishing of this crud.


8 posted on 02/25/2021 12:34:28 PM PST by right way right (May we remain sober over mere men, for God really is our only true hope. )
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To: grundle

bezos has become a dictator who thinks he can change the world.


9 posted on 02/25/2021 12:57:43 PM PST by I want the USA back (The nation is in the grips of incurable hysterical insanity, as usual.)
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To: grundle

“Controversial” = not leftist.


10 posted on 02/25/2021 1:06:09 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.)
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To: grundle
controversial best-seller

Every time I see that word CONTROVERSIAL in an article, or hear it in the broadcast media, I understand that it is newspeak for anything the promotes conservatism or discredits liberalism! There, now you know!
11 posted on 02/25/2021 1:40:17 PM PST by systemjim (Lifetime Lover of Music)
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To: grundle

If Jeff Bezos thinks transgenderism is so great why doesn’t he undergo the snip himself? Hypocrite!


12 posted on 02/25/2021 1:42:49 PM PST by FormerFRLurker
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To: FormerFRLurker
After seeing his new squeeze, why on God's earth would he want to do that?


13 posted on 02/25/2021 1:45:31 PM PST by nascarnation
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To: nascarnation

Harry looks pretty good in a dress! :D


14 posted on 02/25/2021 1:47:50 PM PST by Ratman0823 (Q. What did California have before democrats? A. Electricity)
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To: grundle

Next they will demand books be burned.


15 posted on 02/25/2021 1:50:17 PM PST by Pining_4_TX (In a free world, nobody is equal. In an equal world, nobody is free. )
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To: lee martell

available at B&N as a nook download so far


16 posted on 02/25/2021 1:54:35 PM PST by Chickensoup (Voter ID for 2020!! Leftists totalitarian fascists appear to be planning to eradicate conservatives)
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To: grundle

https://www.alibris.com/booksearch?mtype=B&title=when+harry+became+sally

also available at Alibris with the independent book sellers


17 posted on 02/25/2021 1:56:30 PM PST by Chickensoup (Voter ID for 2020!! Leftists totalitarian fascists appear to be planning to eradicate conservatives)
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To: lee martell

Agreed. And it can be purchased through eBay.


18 posted on 02/25/2021 4:37:21 PM PST by tbw2
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To: grundle

Is this not some kind of violation of contractual agreement(s)?


19 posted on 02/25/2021 6:01:27 PM PST by Wonder Warthog (Sick to Death of Surrender Monkeys!)
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To: grundle
I'm predicting polygamy will be the next big push followed up by pedophilia.

We're setting ourselves up for a serious judgment by God.

20 posted on 02/25/2021 6:03:40 PM PST by ealgeone
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