Posted on 03/11/2021 7:45:42 PM PST by Ennis85
Amazon . com Inc. said it recently removed a three-year-old book about transgender issues from its platforms because it decided not to sell books that frame transgender and other sexual identities as mental illnesses.
The company explained its decision in a letter Thursday to Republican Sens. Marco Rubio of Florida, Mike Lee of Utah, Mike Braun of Indiana and Josh Hawley of Missouri, which was reviewed by The Wall Street Journal. The senators had written last month to Chief Executive Jeff Bezos requesting an explanation of why “When Harry Became Sally: Responding to the Transgender Moment” was no longer available on Amazon nor on its Kindle and Audible platforms.
“As to your specific question about When Harry Became Sally, we have chosen not to sell books that frame LGBTQ+ identity as a mental illness,” Amazon said in the letter, which was signed by Brian Huseman, Amazon’s vice president of public policy, referring to sexual identities that include lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender, among others.
“When Harry Became Sally,” written by the conservative scholar Ryan T. Anderson, was published in February 2018. The book focuses on a variety of issues including gender identity.
“Everyone agrees that gender dysphoria is a serious condition that causes great suffering,” said Mr. Anderson and Roger Kimball, the publisher of Encounter Books, the New York-based nonprofit that published the book, in a statement Thursday in response to Amazon’s letter.
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Of course, it won’t be long before people with other mental illnesses will want equal treatment. It’ll be a world free of mental illness, because all that’s needed is to deny it’s an illness.
Homosexuality, and other deviant forms of sexual behavior, are choices for mentally ill people.
Anyone who says otherwise is a liar and FOS.
I have a lesbian friend who is an amazing artist.
So don’t be so judgemental.
I disagree with militant gays trying to force their sexuality on children and institutions, but so many are living quietly and doing amazing things.
Knock off all this nonsensical gay bashing and educate yourselves.
It’s not a black and white issue.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinsey_scale
This has nothing to do with acceptance of gays or the Kinsey scale. It has everything to do with an open marketplace of ideas and free discussion. Amazon should be embracing that as a key part of its role as a bookseller. Instead it is taking part in corporate censorship and cancel culture. You don’t have to agree with the ideas presented by these people to understand that there is something more important going on here.
Just following the science
fiction.
Here is one way to fight these wokesters.
#SuperStraight Bill Whittle 10:22
That was a remarkably intelligent response.
I think we’re both right. You more so on the specific topic.
cheers
I’m not getting this entire thing. I must not be woke yet.
“This has nothing to do with acceptance of gays or the Kinsey scale”
I’d like to site #22 as a counter argument.
The leftist corporations are on a collision course with their CCP masters, who did declare perversions to be mental illnesses.
EPIC: CATHOLIC PRIEST DROPS TRUTH BOMB ON JOE BIDEN 3-9-21 CHARLIE KIRK
WOW. 27 MINUTES OF EMOTIONAL & SPIRITUAL DYNAMITE!
Please share. Though he didn’t project WHERE we’re headed as a nation, we are on already well down that steep road. Have tissue handy.
https://www.bitchute.com/video/AAtfVBuPqMHF/
Plus they’ll have to ban all books about fruits because snowflakes might think they’re derogatory of trannys.
Lazada and Shoppee (Singapore-based) aren’t banning anything —— yet.
377a is still law there...
Just an extension of our basic institutions becoming children.
Of course, it won’t be long before people with other mental illnesses will want equal treatment.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinsey_scale
“Kinsey? Much of his work was fraudulent, either directly or indirectly.”
Deep and insightful analysis? Are you retarded?
Nope. Educated on Kinsey. This stuff has long been well known.
A whole theater of his works was based on the diaries of an anonymous pedophile.
His 1-in-10 studies were never true, even with the weasel-words he inserted.
“It’s not a black and white issue.”
Um, yes it is. Virtue is clean and vice is foul. Black and white.
I know an artistic gay guy who makes graphics for computer games. He has 50 partners a year and hosts five STD’s. Vice.
So, they’re not selling Bibles any more?
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