{"id":591000,"date":"2021-07-14T13:21:36","date_gmt":"2021-07-14T17:21:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=591000"},"modified":"2021-07-14T13:21:39","modified_gmt":"2021-07-14T17:21:39","slug":"amazon-employees-sign-petition-quit-over-company-selling-book-about-transgender-movement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/amazon-employees-sign-petition-quit-over-company-selling-book-about-transgender-movement\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon Employees Sign Petition, Quit Over Company Selling Book About Transgender Movement"},"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-employees-sign-petition-quit-over-company-selling-book-about-transgender-movement%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=591000&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\/07\/2A932354-AC51-4562-8F43-F5062B2999D4_1_201_a.jpeg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"p1\">Amazon workers are increasingly upset over the online company\u2019s act of selling a book that they have labeled as negatively discussing LGBTQ values, although, in reality, it focuses on the transgender movement among young children.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">NBC News <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/tech\/tech-news\/amazon-workers-petition-two-quit-over-anti-lgbtq-book-sales-n1273870\"><span class=\"s1\">reported<\/span><\/a> that at least two Amazon employees have recently quit in order to push back against Amazon\u2019s selling of \u201cIrreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters,\u201d written by Abigail Shrier.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">As <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/tech\/tech-news\/amazon-workers-petition-two-quit-over-anti-lgbtq-book-sales-n1273870\"><span class=\"s1\">reported<\/span><\/a> by NBC News:<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"10\">\n<p class=\"p1\"><i>The resignations come after a complaint posted to the company\u2019s internal message board in April drew the support of over 467 Amazon corporate employees, according to a copy obtained by NBC News. As of last year, the company employed over 1.3 million people worldwide and is the second-largest employer in the U.S.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"p1\">The petition was led by employees and advocates who support deplatforming Shrier\u2019s book.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cThe book is currently listed as the first, second and third bestsellers \u2014 for the hardcover, softcover and Kindle editions \u2014 in Amazon\u2019s category of \u2018LGBTQ+ Demographic Studies,&#8217;\u201d per the outlet.<\/p>\n<p class>After the complaint was previously put up through Amazon\u2019s internal resources, the company went through a process to determine if it would keep the book.<\/p>\n<p>As <a href=\"https:\/\/www.seattletimes.com\/business\/amazon\/amazon-overrules-employees-calls-to-stop-selling-book-questioning-controversial-treatment-for-transgender-youth\/\">reported<\/a> by The Seattle Times in May, \u201cOn April 23, Amazon\u2019s director of book content risk and quality posted on an internal message board that Amazon would not stop selling [the book].\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAmazon has an internal process for evaluating the appropriateness of books and we have shared your feedback,\u201d the director wrote. \u201cIn this case, the process included gathering feedback from Glamazon board members and the Books Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion team. After examining the content of the book in detail and calibrating with senior leadership, we have confirmed that it does not violate our content policy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cIn an internal thread from the complaint obtained by NBC News, multiple employees raised concerns that the book is listed as a bestseller and turns up as the first result when searching for books on transgender topics on Amazon,\u201d NBC News noted on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cDue to our success and scale, our customers will come to us seeking to educate themselves about their transgender children,\u201d an employee wrote. \u201cWe have a responsibility to make sure that we do not use our powerful market position to amplify the harm this book causes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">An Amazon spokeswoman, Cecelia Fan, said in a statement recently that Amazon is committed to giving access to diverse views.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cAs a bookseller, we believe that providing access to written speech and a variety of viewpoints is one of the most important things we do \u2014 even when those viewpoints differ from our own or Amazon\u2019s stated positions,\u201d Fan said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">The book, written by Abigail Shrier, discusses the popularity of the transgender movement among young girls. Shrier has made the point in the past that she does not have anything against adults deciding to be transgender, but rather is concerned with how the movement affects young people before they are perhaps ready to make such a massive life decision.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The book\u2019s Amazon <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Irreversible-Damage-Transgender-Seducing-Daughters\/dp\/1684510317\">description<\/a> reads, in part:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"17\">\n<p><em>Until just a few years ago, gender dysphoria\u2014severe discomfort in one\u2019s biological sex\u2014was vanishingly rare. It was typically found in less than .01 percent of the population, emerged in early childhood, and afflicted males almost exclusively.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>But today whole groups of female friends in colleges, high schools, and even middle schools across the country are coming out as \u201ctransgender.\u201d These are girls who had never experienced any discomfort in their biological sex until they heard a coming-out story from a speaker at a school assembly or discovered the internet community of trans \u201cinfluencers.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p class=\"p1\">Shrier said in a statement, per the outlet: \u201cThis issue won\u2019t go away just because some disgruntled Amazon employees wish it would. And banning the book won\u2019t help these girls or anyone else.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">She added, \u201cMy book goes out of its way to honor the experiences of transgender adults, never disparages them, and never implies that the trans identity is a mental illness.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">One of the main points of contention in the complaint, according to the outlet, seems to revolve around the fact that Amazon made a point to tell Congress earlier this year that it had \u201cchosen not to sell books that frame LGBTQ+ identity as a mental illness.\u201d The company was responding at the time to concerns from Republican senators over its removal of another book about transgender issues, \u201cWhen Harry Became Sally: Responding to the Transgender Moment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Several companies have either had employees voice concerns over specific company policies or quit because of their discontent over products that lean more conservative. When this happens, these businesses have the choice of either caving to a few unhappy workers or listening to the marketplace.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span>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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