Amazon to stop selling books that frame LGBTQ+ identities as mental illness

[DonViejo]

Source: The Guardian


Retail giant announces decision in letter to Republican US senators about removal of book by conservative academic

Dominic Rushe
@dominicru
Fri 12 Mar 2021 10.55 EST

Amazon will no longer sell books that frame gay, lesbian, transgender and other sexual identities as a mental illness. The company made the announcement public in a letter sent to Republican senators who had asked why Amazon had stopped selling When Harry Became Sally: Responding to the Transgender Moment, a book by the conservative academic Ryan Anderson, best known for his opposition to same-sex marriage.

In the letter, first obtained by the Wall Street Journal, Amazon writes: “As a bookseller, we provide our customers with access to a variety of viewpoints, including books that some customers may find objectionable.

“That said, we reserve the right not to sell certain content. All retailers make decisions about what selection they choose to offer, as do we. 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.”

The letter came in response to criticism from the rightwing senators Marco Rubio, Mike Lee, Mike Braun and Josh Hawley who wrote to the Amazon founder, Jeff Bezos, criticizing the book’s removal and calling it a signal “to conservative Americans that their views are not welcome on its platforms”.



Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/mar/12/amazon-stop-selling-books-lgbtq-mental-illness

[Beakybird]

1. Write your hate speech on the bathroom wall and be done motherfuckers!

[RKP5637]

2. EXCELLENT!!!!!! n/t

[CTyankee]

3. As the grandmother of a transgendered grandchild, I am thrilled.

I can only hope that Rubio, Lee, Braun and Hawley get OK with this wonderful change in the American social norms. Let's all live and let live and appreciate differences that make us a whole society.

[NurseJackie]

5. Amen.

I did my very first Facebook "unfriend" because an acquaintance was promoting a "children's book" that was very anti-gay and filled with lies (ie: homosexuals are child molesters). It was like a glossy version of a "Chick Tract"

I was horrified and sent her a private message letting her know. I know she read it but she didn't bother to reply or delete the crap from her FB wall. So I unfriended. It was sad but satisfying.

The link below describes it... and with a sledge hammer it points out and DESTROYS all the tropes and lies and bigotry.

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Literature/AlfiesHome

[CTyankee]

6. My grandchild lives in Hollywood and his mother (my daughter) works at a movie studio.

she told me of all the programs California has for kids who are LGBTQ and how wonderful the public school has been. Hooray for BLUE STATES and BLUE Communities where everyone can live their life and be happy.

[mezame]

15. Feeling the love...

...that shines from you. I'm trans. You and my Mom (90 in November, one shot down, second next week) would probably get along great. I'm LA born 'n bred since 1956 (with deep roots in the bay area as well), and yes YAY for blue states! Besides, the weather is always better in LA.

The Blue Tsunami is here - and I may actually get to go to Dan Blocker Beach this summer - Kowabunga!

The future is gender-neutral. May the force be with you.

[CTyankee]

16. She actually told my daughter that she wanted to take the name of a very dear family member

who died tragically 10 years ago. I never grieved so much as I did for her. And she would have loved having her name passed down.

[paleotn]

4. Ya think?

[Withywindle]

7. Good for them!

Terrible company in so many ways, but occasionally they do a good thing. Thank you, Amazon, duly noted.

(SOLIDARITY WITH THE UNION)

[vercetti2021]

8. Good

I hear this from rw relatives that I have mental illness because I'm transitioning and how I'll regret it and how I'm an abomination in the eyes of God. Like yeah yeah yeah. Like y'all have any right to judge me after y'all voted for the antichrist twice.

Good to get rid of those books. Its horrific that they even exist. You wonder why LGBT teenage suicide is high

[efhmc]

9. Wow. Do they really "believe" in a god who thinks that ANY human is an abomination?

That is not what I learned from Christ's teaching. It was/is about acceptance and love of all people. Look at the woman at the well, the tax collector, the lepers, etc. he interacted with.

[vercetti2021]

10. They follow old testament

They think that justifies them. I tell them they are fake Christians and they are a cult. That seems to make them mad and they say I'm trying to cancel their religious beliefs. Like nope. Not doing that lol I'm not cancelling anything. I cancel stuff I don't like personally. Ya'll being one of those things I don't like. Blocked forever. Bye bitches!

I got quite a few nut job family members

[bucolic_frolic]

11. Absolutism vs. Relativism

and that ought to draw out some mental illness from the GQP

[marble falls]

12. That's a good, if somewhat late move. I guess Amazon figured out that book burners ...

... aren't book buyers.

[niyad]

13. I love to point out to book burners that they actually have to purchase the books in order to have

them available to burn. Unless, of course, they plan on stealing them. Pretty sure there are laws and commandments about stealing.

[marble falls]

14. The one they miss the most on covers all the other sins: Christ said to treat others ...

... as we would be treated.

[februari]

17. Good

discrimination has no place in our nation.

[Progressive Jones]

18. Progress. nt

[janterry]

19. So, the DSM must be removed

n/t

[hunter]

20. LGBTQ+ hating "conservative" culture needs to be canceled.

This vile culture has tortured and killed many gentle souls.

Big corporations are beginning to realize these hateful people are bad for business.

Marco Rubio, Mike Lee, Mike Braun and Josh Hawley will be judged harshly by history.

[Tiger8]

21. I agree. It's ALL based on Hate

When they commit hate crimes against Asian Americans for "causing" COVID, while calling it a fake virus, plus refusing to mask-up - the only common theme is their Hate.