The online commerce behemoth Amazon has announced that it will be relisting “When Harry Became Sally: Responding to the Transgender Movement,” a bestselling and influential book critical of the transgender movement that had been delisted at the behest of LGBTQ+ activists.
The move comes as President Donald Trump has signed a flurry of executive orders related to gender ideology and males interloping in female sports.
“A few years ago, we removed ‘When Harry Became Sally’ from our store after concluding that it violated our guideline prohibiting books that promote hate speech,” Amazon said in a recent statement justifying its ban of the book even as it lifted it. The book took its name from the title of a 1989 romantic comedy film “When Harry Met Sally.”
Author Ryan Anderson strongly contested Amazon’s stance, then and now, on the book in a statement to The Daily Signal.
I’m glad that the company is able to admit they made a bad decision four years ago. However, the statement they put out attempting to explain away their mistake is pathetic. There is nothing remotely objectionable in my book and nothing remotely approaching ‘hate speech.’
For Amazon to continue to insist that the book is borderline ‘hate speech’ and that it is a tough call on whether or not to sell it is nothing short of ridiculous.
Getting banned from Amazon can matter significantly in the publishing industry, given that the company controls about 50% of all book distribution. Amazon had previously sold Anderson’s book, which was published in February 2018, but suddenly reversed itself at the onset of the Biden administration in February 2021. […]
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