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Amazon Won’t Sell Books Framing LGBTQ+ Identities as Mental Illnesses
Wall Street Journal ^ | March 11th 2021 | Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg

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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TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: 1984; amazon; antiscience; bookban; homosexualagenda; lgtb; pervertpower; perverts; sodomites; sodomy; transgender; xyxx
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To: Ennis85

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.


21 posted on 03/11/2021 8:49:40 PM PST by robel
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To: Ennis85

Homosexuality, and other deviant forms of sexual behavior, are choices for mentally ill people.

Anyone who says otherwise is a liar and FOS.


22 posted on 03/11/2021 8:52:56 PM PST by Prole ( )
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To: Ennis85

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


23 posted on 03/11/2021 8:55:55 PM PST by Eddie01
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To: Eddie01

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.


24 posted on 03/11/2021 9:01:31 PM PST by Stravinsky
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To: Ennis85

Just following the science

fiction.


25 posted on 03/11/2021 9:01:42 PM PST by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again,")
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To: Ennis85
#AmazonIsAntiScience

Here is one way to fight these wokesters.

#SuperStraight Bill Whittle 10:22

26 posted on 03/11/2021 9:14:16 PM PST by TigersEye (Will the Younger Dryas Impact you? )
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To: Stravinsky

That was a remarkably intelligent response.

I think we’re both right. You more so on the specific topic.

cheers


27 posted on 03/11/2021 9:20:59 PM PST by Eddie01
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To: Ennis85

I’m not getting this entire thing. I must not be woke yet.


28 posted on 03/11/2021 9:21:55 PM PST by hoe_cake (A Descendent of the Signers of the Constitution. )
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To: Stravinsky

“This has nothing to do with acceptance of gays or the Kinsey scale”

I’d like to site #22 as a counter argument.


29 posted on 03/11/2021 9:23:43 PM PST by Eddie01
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To: Ennis85

The leftist corporations are on a collision course with their CCP masters, who did declare perversions to be mental illnesses.


30 posted on 03/11/2021 9:34:21 PM PST by rfp1234 (Caveat Emperor: Comitii asinorum atque rhinocerorum delendi sunt.)
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To: conservative98

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31 posted on 03/11/2021 10:02:55 PM PST by Dick Bachert (THE DEEP STATE HATES US! IT DETESTS TRUMP!!)
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To: Ennis85

Plus they’ll have to ban all books about fruits because snowflakes might think they’re derogatory of trannys.


32 posted on 03/11/2021 10:08:41 PM PST by Hillarys Gate Cult (This space for rant.)
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To: Stravinsky

Lazada and Shoppee (Singapore-based) aren’t banning anything —— yet.

377a is still law there...


33 posted on 03/11/2021 10:25:23 PM PST by Starcitizen (To the filthy Indian trash snowflakes that cried my tagline, eff you and your filthy country. )
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To: Ennis85

Just an extension of our basic institutions becoming children.


34 posted on 03/11/2021 10:53:06 PM PST by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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To: robel

Of course, it won’t be long before people with other mental illnesses will want equal treatment.


Parts of the Clinton Administration were pushing for quotas for the mentally ill.


35 posted on 03/11/2021 10:55:57 PM PST by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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To: Eddie01

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinsey_scale


Kinsey? Much of his work was fraudulent, either directly or indirectly.


36 posted on 03/11/2021 10:57:31 PM PST by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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To: lepton

“Kinsey? Much of his work was fraudulent, either directly or indirectly.”

Deep and insightful analysis? Are you retarded?


37 posted on 03/11/2021 11:06:19 PM PST by Eddie01
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To: Eddie01

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.


38 posted on 03/11/2021 11:17:50 PM PST by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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To: Eddie01

“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.


39 posted on 03/11/2021 11:49:43 PM PST by Falconspeed
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To: Ennis85

So, they’re not selling Bibles any more?


40 posted on 03/12/2021 12:00:46 AM PST by fwdude (Pass up too many hills to die on, and you will eventually fall off the edge of the world.)
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