Amazon Won’t Sell Books Framing LGBTQ+ Identities as Mental Illnesses

Wall Street Journal ^ | March 11th 2021 | Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg

[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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I disagree with militant gays trying to force their sexuality on children and institutions, but so many are living quietly and doing amazing things.

Yeah, they’re quiet alright. They don’t raise a peep when the the really militant ones attack and destroy the lives of ordinary people living normal lives. The ones you mention ARE militant by their silence.

Ask your “wonderful” lesbian friend what she thinks of county clerk Kim Davis and you’ll see her transform into the monster she really is before your eyes. That mention is like Jesus Christ before the demon-possessed.

[Jewbacca]

Modern book burners.

[joma89]

I have stopped buying from amazon. I suggest everyone do the same.

[Sir_Humphrey]

Uh...sure pal...whatever you say

[Sir_Humphrey]

I am glad that lunatic Michael Savage is off the air. I may share core beliefs of the role of government in our society or the dangers of socialism, but this guy is nuttier than squirrel crap

[Sir_Humphrey]

I was thinking of the same thing. Buy the rights to books, movies and old TV shows that the woke networks will not show any more. You may be able to get them on the cheap since they no longer generate revenue. Sell them on a website geared to boomers and older Gen Xers so they can give them as gifts to their grandchildren.

[JimRed]

IOW, truth is verboten. What else id new?

[JimRed]

Knock off all this nonsensical gay bashing and educate yourselves.

It's not so much bashing as failing to realize that TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.

[AppyPappy]

Didn’t China just declare it a mental illness.

[StAnDeliver]

"Amazon is not the Government. The Government is not forbidding the production and sale of the book. Yet."

They are a monopoly. Amazon sells at least half of the books in the US and with specialty titles like this, pushes towards 100%.

Therefore, if Amazon illegally pulls your title, fully expecting you to sue in futility, and 80% of your first printing is still physically sitting in Amazon slavewagehouses to be sold by a variety of Amazon Sellers, almost certain never to be recalled back out of Bezos' bookshed to a brick & mortar, then you the author, are. truly. -----d.