Amazon workers quit over stubborn refusal to ban reviled anti-trans book

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At least two Amazon workers have quit after the company’s refused to stop selling a reviled anti-trans book.

Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters was written by the anti-trans journalist Abigail Shrier, and describes trans identity as “a peer contagion among teen girls”.

The author helped proliferate the debunked concept of “rapid onset gender dysphoria”, and her book perpetuates the idea that being trans is inherently harmful to young people and something to be “cured”.

In April this year, Amazon employees lodged a complaint which said the book violates the company’s policy against selling books “that frame LGBT+ identity as a mental illness”.

Shrier has denied that her book frames being trans as a mental illness.

The complaint was supported by 467 Amazon workers, including members of LGBT+ employee group Glamazon, but the company ruled that it did not violate any policies.

One employee who has now resigned over the decision, trans software engineer Selene Xenia, told NBC News: “The book literally has [craze] in the title and considers being transgender a mental illness in many senses throughout the book.”

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[Jill 31,812]

I hate that book so much. Seeing that cover is a traumatic experience in and of itself.

[Lilmonzter 2,864]

This should have have come up during pride month. They'd have bowed to public pressure maybe?!

 

[Bling 31,683]

Amazon is so effing problematic sometimes 

[Prostitute Barbie 4,083]

It has 4.5 stars out of 3600 reviews too, obviously they decided it makes too much money to be taken down 

[A MESS 3,938]

is this **** still around???

[Suspiria 10,683]

Is 2 of Amazon's millions of employees quitting really a news story?

I support them though obvs