{"id":420718,"date":"2021-04-14T08:58:16","date_gmt":"2021-04-14T12:58:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=420718"},"modified":"2021-04-14T08:58:19","modified_gmt":"2021-04-14T12:58:19","slug":"amazon-quietly-pulls-book-on-transgenderism-as-crackdown-on-hate-speech-continues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/amazon-quietly-pulls-book-on-transgenderism-as-crackdown-on-hate-speech-continues\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon Quietly Pulls Book On Transgenderism As Crackdown On \u2018Hate Speech\u2019 Continues"},"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\">24<\/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-quietly-pulls-book-on-transgenderism-as-crackdown-on-hate-speech-continues%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=420718&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\/04\/fb_image-1814.jpeg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Amazon pulled a second book critical of transgender identity theory from its online store this week as it moves to silence one side of the debate over LGBT issues.<\/p>\n<p>The online retailer has removed Maria Keffler\u2019s \u201cDesist, Detrans, &amp; Detox: Getting Your Child Out of the Gender Cult.\u201d The newly released book had sold less than 100 copies across three platforms and had garnered less than a dozen Amazon reviews before it was pulled, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.partnersforethicalcare.com\/post\/amazon-cancels-book-for-parents-of-transgender-identified-kids\">Partners for Ethical Care<\/a> (PEC). PEC noted that Amazon gave \u201cno contact, no warning, no reason\u201d before pulling the book.<\/p>\n<p>PEC is a nonprofit group cofounded by Keffler and aimed at raising \u201cawareness and support efforts to stop the unethical treatment of children by schools, hospitals, and mental and medical healthcare providers under the duplicitous banner of&nbsp;<em>gender identity affirmation<\/em>.\u201d Keffler\u2019s book is part of that effort.<\/p>\n<p>Amazon has pulled at least one other book critical of transgender ideology: Ryan T. Anderson\u2019s \u201cWhen Harry Became Sally.\u201d The online retailer banned Anderson\u2019s book in February, the first apparent major action taken since revising its policy on books to crack down on \u201chate speech.\u201d Titles such as \u201cMein Kampf\u201d by Nazi dictator Adolf Hitler are still <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Mein-Kampf\/dp\/0395925037\/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&amp;keywords=mein+kampf&amp;qid=1618402503&amp;sr=8-1\">available<\/a> on the site.<\/p>\n<p>The new policy applies to books that classify transgenderism and several other identities as mental illness, according to Brian Huseman, Amazon vice president of public policy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs a bookseller, we provide our customers with access to a variety of viewpoints, including books that some customers may find objectionable,\u201d Huseman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/amazon-bans-books-framing-transgenderism-as-mental-illness\">told<\/a>&nbsp;Republican Sens. Marco Rubio of Florida, Mike Lee of Utah, Mike Braun of Indiana, and Josh Hawley of Missouri in a March letter. The group of senators received the letter in response to questions over the retailer\u2019s decision to pull Anderson\u2019s book.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAmazon works hard to ensure customers have a great shopping experience, and access to the widest and most diverse cross-section of written and spoken word in retail today,\u201d Huseman said. \u201cThat 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&nbsp;<em>When Harry Became Sally<\/em>, we have chosen not to sell books that frame LGBTQ+ identity as a mental illness.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Amazon is the most dominant book retailer in the United States, selling 53% of all physical books sold in the U.S. and 80% of all ebooks. In its response to the Republican senators, Amazon asserted that its change in book policy and tacitly endorsing one side of a public debate did not represent a wider bias or movement against conservative ideas.<\/p>\n<p>Anderson ripped Amazon over its decision to deplatform his book, accusing the tech giant of attempting to stifle one side of an ongoing public debate.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEveryone agrees that gender dysphoria is a serious condition that causes great suffering. There is a debate, however, which Amazon is seeking to shut down, about how best to treat patients who experience gender dysphoria,\u201d Anderson said at the time. He went on to point out that the American Psychiatric Association (APA) defines gender dysphoria, which per the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.psychiatry.org\/patients-families\/gender-dysphoria\/what-is-gender-dysphoria\">APA<\/a>&nbsp;\u201crefers to psychological distress that results from an incongruence between one\u2019s sex assigned at birth and one\u2019s gender identity,\u201d as a mental illness.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGender dysphoria is listed in the APA\u2019s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, which Amazon sells. So the real deciding factor seems to be whether you endorse hormones and surgery as the proper treatment or counseling,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/report-amazon-quietly-debuted-new-policy-ending-sales-of-books-labeled-hate-speech\">Report: Amazon Quietly Debuted New Policy Ending Sales Of Books Labeled \u2018Hate Speech\u2019<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. 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