Amazon workers quit after company won’t ban book that mentions transgender ‘craze’

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At least two of Amazon‘s employees quit to protest the company’s decision allowing the sale of a book critics say depicts young people identifying as transgender as mentally ill.

A complaint reportedly posted on Amazon’s internal message board in April received support from 467 of the company’s corporate employees. The complaint cited a decision Amazon shared with Republican senators March 11, claiming the company had “chosen not to sell books that frame LGBTQ+ identity as a mental illness.”

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