Amazon Won’t Sell Books Framing LGBTQ+ Identities as Mental Illnesses
Company states policy in response to several Republican senators’ inquiry over recent removal of book by conservative author
Amazon’s company logistics centre in Boves, France. Amazon is the dominant book retailer in the U.S., taking up 53% of all books sold.
Amazon.com Inc. said it recently removed a three-year-old book about transgender issues from its platforms because it decided not to sell books that frame transgender and other sexual identities as mental illnesses.
The company explained its decision in a letter Thursday to Republican Sens. Marco Rubio of Florida, Mike Lee of Utah, Mike Braun of Indiana and Josh Hawley of Missouri, which was reviewed by The Wall Street Journal….
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