There’s a dark truth about transgenderism that Amazon is now helping to hide

Published February 22, 2021 7:50pm ET



Executives at Amazon apparently believe the world needs protection from certain ideas about transgenderism, so they’ve removed a book on the subject from its online store. It’s funny, considering that the debate over transgenderism isn’t nearly settled and, if anything, Amazon is probably in the minority view on the issue.

Conservative author Ryan Anderson said Sunday that his 2018 book When Harry Became Sally: Responding to the Transgender Moment was deleted from the Amazon marketplace, which almost certainly happened because some “social justice” person or group complained that the words in its pages were a form of “violence.” (A spokesperson for Amazon told me Monday that the company was declining to comment on Anderson’s book and directed me to a page listing the guidelines for selling books on the platform.)

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