{"id":200525,"date":"2021-03-12T15:57:01","date_gmt":"2021-03-12T12:57:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/amazon-stops-selling-books-framing-lgbtq-identities-as-illness\/"},"modified":"2021-03-12T15:57:01","modified_gmt":"2021-03-12T12:57:01","slug":"amazon-stops-selling-books-framing-lgbtq-identities-as-illness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/amazon-stops-selling-books-framing-lgbtq-identities-as-illness\/","title":{"rendered":"#Amazon stops selling books framing LGBTQ identities as illness"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Amazon stops selling books framing LGBTQ identities as illness<\/strong>”
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Amazon has decided to stop selling books that cast lesbian, gay and transgender identities as mental illnesses.<\/p>\n

The e-commerce titan revealed its decision in a letter to three Republican senators who cried foul last month over the removal of a conservative scholar\u2019s book about transgender people.<\/p>\n

The book, \u201cWhen Harry Became Sally: Responding to the Transgender Moment,\u201d was published in 2018 but recently disapp<\/a>eared from Amazon\u2019s website, Kindle store and Audible audiobook platform.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs to your specific question about When Harry Became Sally, we have chosen not to sell books that frame LGBTQ+ identity as a mental illness,\u201d Amazon executive Brian Huseman wrote in the Thursday letter to Sens. Marco Rubio, Josh Hawley, Mike Lee and Mike Braun, which was published by The Wall Street Journal<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Huseman was responding to the senators\u2019 Feb. 24 letter demanding more details<\/a> about Amazon\u2019s decision to remove the book, which they said \u201copenly signaled to conservative Americans that their views are not welcome on its platforms.\u201d<\/p>\n

They specifically asked why Amazon hosted the book for three years before yanking it and how the company determined that it contained \u201coffensive content.\u201d<\/p>\n

The book by Ryan Anderson claims to reveal the \u201coften sad reality\u201d of living with gender dysphoria, the discomfort one experiences when their gender identity doesn\u2019t match the sex they were assigned at birth.<\/p>\n

It also features accounts from people who transitioned to a different gender as children but later regretted doing so, according to the book\u2019s description<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Huseman indicated that Amazon changed its policy to prohibit books that cast LGBTQ identities as mental illnesses at some point between 2018 and this year, but he didn\u2019t provide further details about the timeline or why the decision was made.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe reserve the right not to sell certain content. All retailers make decisions about
what selection they choose to offer, as do we,\u201d Huseman wrote, adding that Amazon offers \u201ccustomers across the political spectrum a wide variety of content that includes
disparate opinions.\u201d<\/p>\n

Anderson and his publisher slammed Amazon\u2019s decision in a statement to the Journal, saying the company was \u201cusing its massive power to distort the marketplace of ideas and is deceiving its own customers in the process.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cEveryone agrees that gender dysphoria is a serious condition that causes great suffering,\u201d Anderson and Roger Kimball, publisher of Encounter Books, told the paper<\/a>. \u201cThere is a debate, however, which Amazon is seeking to shut down, about how best to treat patients who experience gender dysphoria.\u201d<\/p>\n

Neither Amazon nor the senators who wrote to the company immedia<\/a>tely responded to requests for comment Friday morning.\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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