Liberal billionaire Jeff Bezos’s behemoth online retailer Amazon is receiving fierce criticism after announcing it would no longer sell books that it says frame transgender and other sexual identities as mental illnesses.
Amazon announced the decision in a letter sent to Republican lawmakers that was obtained and published by the Wall Street Journal. Sens. Marco Rubio, Mike Lee, Mike Braun, and Josh Hawley had inquired why the online retailer pulled Ryan T. Anderson’s bestselling book, “When Harry Became Sally: Responding to the Transgender Moment,” which has been characterized by the Bezos-owned Washington Post as anti-transgender.
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“As a bookseller, we provide our customers with access to a variety of viewpoints, including books that some customers may find objectionable. Amazon 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,” Amazon wrote to the lawmakers. “We reserve the right not to sell certain content. All retailers make decisions about what selection they choose to offer, as do we.”
The letter continued, “As to your specific question about ‘When Harry Became Sally,’ we have chosen not to sell books that frame LGBTQ+ identity as a mental illness.”
Amazon will no longer sell books that frame transgender and other sexual identities as mental illnesses. (REUTERS/Mike Segar)
Amazon did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
“Amazon is using its massive power to distort the marketplace of ideas and is deceiving its own customers in the process,” Anderson and Encounter Books publisher Roger Kimball told the Wall Street Journal.
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The author further addressed the decision in a series of tweets.
“Amazon has finally…
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