Amazon has the controversial book 'When Harry Sally became again: responded to the transgender movement' after the retail giant had put the author on the blacklist for four years.
The conservative author of the novel, Ryan T. Anderson, went to social media on Wednesday – a day after his book was brought again – thanked his “friends and allies who insist that this would happen.”
“I like to see it. After a ban of four years, Amazon brought my book back to their cyber boards, “he said on X.
The book aims to give 'thoughtful answers' on questions that revolve around the 'transgender movement', while also 'a grim contrast is revealed between the sunny image of the media and the often sad reality of gender identity struggle,' says its online description.
After he was published in 2018, the book quickly rose the top of two by Amazon's bestseller lists, but in February 2021 – just after former President Joe Biden took office – Amazon took it off the website.
In response to the decision Anderson told DailyMail.com that he is happy that Amazon admitted: “They made a bad decision.”
'I am happy that the company is able to admit that they made a bad decision four years ago. However, the explanation they explain to put away their fault is pathetic, “he said.
'There is nothing remotely reprehensible in my book and nothing is approaching' hate speech 'remotely. For Amazon to continue to maintain that the book Borderline is “hate speech” and that it is a tough call to sell it or not, nothing less than ridiculous. '
On Tuesday, Amazon has become the controversial book 'When Harry Sally: Respond on the transgender movement' again after prohibiting the platform in February 2021
The conservative author of the novel, Ryan T. Anderson, went to social media on Wednesday and shared the news and thanked his 'friends and allies who insist that this would happen'
Amazon initially defended his decision to draw the book in 2018 and stated that it challenges' the transgender movement 'because it does not allow books that' LGBTQ+ identity allows' frame 'disorder.
On Friday, Amazon published a statement explaining why the company chose to go back and noted that a big factor was that other retailer continued to sell the book.
'Balancing freedom of expression and content that can be conceived as a hateful language is one of the most difficult decisions about the assessment we take as a company. A few years ago we removed “when Harry Sally” became “from our store after we concluded that it has violated our guidelines that forbid books that promote hateful speech. This was not an easy decision and was fiercely debating, “the company said.
'Since then, many other retailers (eg Barnes & Noble, Walmart, Powell's, etc.) have continued to sell this book, and we have continued to receive feedback from customers who have to be the ideas in this book, although controversial, must be available for Those who want to read and understand the perspective of the author.
'The combination of our pear retailers who continued to sell the book and the continuous feedback made us investigate our decision again.
“As was the case when we judged the book a few years ago, it was not an easy decision, but we concluded that we have restricted the side of the last time and decided to bring the book back to our store,” the statement closed .
Anderson said he believes that Amazon made a “pure political move” when reversing his decision.
“I think this is purely a political move. Four years ago, with the Biden administration, they thought they were on the right side of history. And now, four years later, they see that they are not, “he told Fox News Digital.
After he was published in 2018, the book quickly came to the top of the two of Amazon's bestseller lists, but shortly after former President Joe Biden took office, Amazon took it from his website and stated that it does not allow 'frame lgbtq + identity allows as a mental illness'
“My gamble is that they did not want the Federal Trade Commission to open an investigation,” he added.
At the time, Brian Huseman, the vice -president of Amazon's public policy, sent a letter to Republican senators who defend the company's decision to prohibit the book, while many big name political leaders did not agree.
Marco Rubio from Florida, Mike Lee from Utah, Mike Braun from Indiana and Josh Hawley of Missouri then accused the company of 'openly alert to conservative Americans that their views are not welcome on his platforms'.
Anderson, who is also the president of the Ethics and Public Policy Center (EPPC), rejected Amazon's claims about his book and said that he 'nowhere' he put in LGBTQ identity as a psychological disorder.
He said that the book, praised by academics at various Ivy League universities, had “nothing hateful”.
Amazon officially decided to welcome the book on Tuesday on his website, but according to Anderson he was never directly contacted by the company about why it happened.
“I think professionally, the attempt here was to discredit myself because of the timing of when the book was forbidden,” he told the outlet.
“It was a Sunday just before former house speaker Nancy Pelosi had planned the mood about the Equality Act,” he went on, adding that he is a great critic of the bill of the transgenerating rights.
He noted that since then President Donald Trump has signed an executive order in which it was stated that the government will only recognize two sexes – male and female – he and his organization have tried to push Amazon to have his book sold on the platform again.
The State Department of Biden has allowed since 2022 to select a third sex, labeled X, on their passports. They did not require Americans to provide medical documentation to choose this option.
Now the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Interior Security and other authorities have the task of maintaining the directive that will only apply male or female to passports, visas and other government documents.
An official from the White House said that it is about 'recovering common sense'.
At the time, Brian Huseman (depicted in 2021), the vice president of Amazon's public policy, sent a letter to Republican senators who defended the company's decision to ban the book, while much big name of the big name did not agreed
After Anderson had shared the news on X, many people congratulated him while they also shoot Amazon for banning the book in the first place.
Andrew Ferguson, the chairman of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), said: 'Happy to see it, but it should not take an election to make this happen.
“I still want to know why this book has been banned and understand the market conditions that make it possible for a retailer to refuse to sell a popular book for four years.”
Senator Ted Cruz from Texas also commented on the again that the book was used again and said: “There are two sexes” is not a controversial explanation – it's the basic biology.
'Amazon should never have removed the book when Harry became Sally. As chairman of the @Senatecommerce Committee, I will continue to love Big Tech platforms responsible for censing opposing views. '
Dailymail.com contacted Amazon for comments. The FTC told DailyMail.com: “We have no comments.”
