Amazon stops selling books that
frame LGBTQ identities as illness
Posted By: Ribicon, 3/12/2021 9:53:44 AM
Amazon has decided to stop selling books that cast lesbian, gay and transgender identities as mental illnesses. 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’s book about transgender people. The book, “When Harry Became Sally: Responding to the Transgender Moment,” was published in 2018 but recently disappeared from Amazon’s website, Kindle store and Audible audiobook platform.(Snip) The book by Ryan Anderson claims to reveal the “often sad reality” of living with gender dysphoria, the discomfort one experiences when their gender identity doesn’t match
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