Amazon has refused to stop selling a book that doctors and transgender advocates have said advances a narrative of transgender identity as a disease after employees asked the company to yank the title from its digital shelves.
Dozens of Amazon employees backed an internal complaint lodged in April arguing the book, “Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters,” by journalist Abigail Shrier, violates Amazon’s policy against selling books “that frame LGBTQ+ identity as a mental illness,” according to images of the complaint and responses viewed by The Seattle Times. Leaders of Amazon’s affinity group for LGBTQ+ employees, Glamazon, also asked the company to drop the book, according to Slack messages viewed by The Seattle Times.
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