{"id":163024,"date":"2021-02-23T05:00:35","date_gmt":"2021-02-23T10:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=163024"},"modified":"2021-02-23T05:13:36","modified_gmt":"2021-02-23T10:13:36","slug":"amazon-pulls-bestseller-on-transgender-issues-from-store-without-explanation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/amazon-pulls-bestseller-on-transgender-issues-from-store-without-explanation\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon Pulls Bestseller on Transgender Issues From Store Without Explanation"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Famazon-pulls-bestseller-on-transgender-issues-from-store-without-explanation%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=163024&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Amazon-1-e1614024644690.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Amazon pulled a bestseller on transgender issues from its online store on Sunday without explanation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Author Ryan T. Anderson<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RyanTAnd\/status\/1363587820565184521?s=20\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">tweeted<\/span><\/a> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">on Sunday that his book,<\/span> <em><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">When Harry Became Sally: Responding to the Transgender Moment<\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, had been removed. At the time of writing, the book was not available on Amazon either in physical form, as an e-book, or as an audiobook, although Anderson\u2019s four other books remain up.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"posts-content__category-widget md:hidden -ml-4 -mr-4 my-8 px-4 py-6 bg-gray-100\">\n<h4 class=\"mt-0 text-red-600 font-medium font-sans uppercase\">Recent Stories in Culture<\/h4>\n<ul class=\"list-none p-0\">\n<li class><a class=\"text-black block mb-3 pb-3 border-b border-white\" href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/culture\/amazon-pulls-bestseller-on-transgender-issues-from-store-without-explanation\/\"><strong>Amazon Pulls Bestseller on Transgender Issues From Store Without Explanation<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<li class><a class=\"text-black block mb-3 pb-3 border-b border-white\" href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/culture\/fired-football-coach-sues-school-officials-for-retaliation-over-political-differences\/\"><strong>Fired Football Coach Sues School Officials for Retaliation Over Political Differences<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<li class><a class=\"text-black block mb-3 pb-3 border-b border-white\" href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/culture\/mavericks-no-longer-playing-national-anthem-before-games\/\"><strong>NBA&#8217;s Mavericks No Longer Playing National Anthem Before Games<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Amazon\u2019s crackdown on conservative content mirrors a trend many on the right see in other major tech companies.<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Criticism of big tech has spiked since Facebook and Twitter removed President Donald Trump following the Jan. 6 Capitol riots. On Jan. 10, Amazon Web Services suspended the account of conservative platform Parler.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The removal of Anderson\u2019s book also calls attention to Amazon\u2019s oversized impact on book sales. In a 2019 letter to the House Antitrust Subcommittee, three major publishing associations<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/publishingperspectives.com\/2020\/08\/us-publishers-authors-booksellers-call-out-amazons-concentrated-power-in-the-book-market\/#:~:text=%E2%80%9CA%20year%20ago%2C%20The%20New,or%2080%20percent%20of%20sales.\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">wrote<\/span><\/a> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">that Amazon controls 50 percent or more of the print book market, although some estimates put the number closer to 80 percent. Analyst Ben Evans<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ben-evans.com\/benedictevans\/2019\/12\/amazons-market-share19#:~:text=Amazon%20has%2050%25%20or%20more,it%20has%20over%2050%25).\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">estimates<\/span><\/a> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Amazon controls over 75 percent of the e-book market.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Amazon did not respond to<\/span> <em><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Washington Free Beacon<\/span><\/em> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">requests for comment, and Anderson<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/02\/21\/amazon-removes-book-critiquing-transgender-movement\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">said<\/span><\/a> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">he had not received an explanation for the removal of<\/span> <em><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">When Harry Became Sally<\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, which climbed to the top of Amazon\u2019s natural law and LGBT issues book lists when it was released in 2018.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">&#8220;It\u2019s not about how you say it, it\u2019s not about how rigorously you argue it, it\u2019s not about how charitably you present it. It\u2019s about whether you dissent from a new orthodoxy,&#8221; Anderson told the<\/span> <em><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Free Beacon<\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. He noted the book had garnered public support from multiple professors of psychology at higher education institutions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Roger Kimball, president of Anderson\u2019s publisher Encounter Books, told the<\/span> <em><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Free Beacon<\/span><\/em> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">that Amazon had not responded to requests for an explanation. &#8220;I felt like it was one of those pictures of Stalin where Nikolai Yezhov is just photoshopped out of the picture,&#8221; he said. Kimball said Amazon commands a substantial majority of Encounter\u2019s book sales, but that Encounter is investing in other distribution options.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Amazon has restricted material from other conservative authors on transgender issues in the past. In June 2020, Amazon<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/amazon-enforces-trans-orthodoxy-11592865818\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">refused<\/span><\/a> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">to run ads showing the cover of Abigail Shrier\u2019s<\/span> <em><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters<\/span><\/em><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. In this case, Amazon pointed to its policy of not running material that &#8220;claims to diagnose, treat, or question sexual orientation.&#8221; Critics, however, pointed out that being transgender is not a sexual orientation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Anderson\u2019s book faced criticism upon its publication. The<\/span> <em><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Washington Post<\/span><\/em> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">initially wrote that the book made the inflammatory claim &#8220;that transgender people are mentally ill,&#8221; citing an<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.thinkprogress.org\/review-when-harry-became-sally-transgender-moment-4033a1b06dbb\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">attack<\/span><\/a> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">on Anderson from defunct progressive outlet<\/span> <em><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">ThinkProgress.<\/span><\/em> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The<\/span> <em><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Post<\/span><\/em> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">then<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MatthewJFranck\/status\/959852549548503041?s=20\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">stealth edited<\/span><\/a> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">its piece when Anderson pointed out that he does not call being transgender a mental illness. Anderson emphasizes the need for charity and respect toward individuals who identify as transgender throughout the book.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"my-8 hide-print\">\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1526555381173-4\" class=\"mobile-250 desktop-90\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon pulled a bestseller on transgender issues from its online store on Sunday without explanation. Author Ryan T. 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