When Harry Became Sally
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Amazon Banned His Book on Transgenderism January 17, 2022
For three years, Amazon sold Ryan Anderson’s book “When Harry Became Sally: Responding to the Transgender Moment.” Then, last February, the book disappeared from Amazon’s virtual shelves. Anderson—president of the Ethics and Public Policy Center, a c...
I’m Happily Teaching a Banned Book in My Classroom April 05, 2021
I’m not just happy to teach a banned book. I’m elated — and grateful. As to being grateful, I am thankful to be at Franciscan University, where professors can actually teach truths now considered heretical by “cancel culture.”...
Amazon Pulled My Book to Silence Debate March 19, 2021
Imagine feeling so alienated from your body that you would consider taking cross-sex hormones and removing your genitals. That’s the tragic situation that many people with gender dysphoria experience. They aren’t faking it, and they didn’t actively c...
Amazon's Book Burning March 15, 2021
The house of the Lord, we are told, has many mansions. So does the house of wokeness. If you are Coca-Cola, you address flagging sales by embarking on an ad campaign (and internal training regimen for employees) urging those drinking its sugar water ...
Why "When Harry Became Sally" Matters March 15, 2021
In the late 20th century, American psychiatry suffered a schism over the idea of recovered memory. At the time, a number of patients, encouraged by their psychiatrists and psychotherapists, falsely accused their parents and teachers of sexually abusi...
From Book-Selling to Book-Burning March 11, 2021
When Harry Became Sally: Responding to the Transgender Moment was published in 2018. In it, its author Ryan T Anderson, a fellow at the conservative Heritage Foundation, took aim at transgender thinking, and included stories of those who regretted th...
Book Banning in an Age of Amazon March 08, 2021
If you wanted to eliminate disfavored ideas from a society, you’d begin by aggregating most of the world’s books onto a single platform. You’d hope to create a global network of gargantuan warehouses, automated to allow next-day fulfillment of custom...
Ryan T. Anderson's Moment March 05, 2021
For the last nine years, Ryan T. Anderson has been active in Washington public policy circles as a researcher at the Heritage Foundation, and as a cheerful advocate across several media for religious liberty, traditional marriage, the sanctity of lif...
Banned Book Helped Me With Gender Dysphoria March 02, 2021
In July 2017, I took a risk and submitted an article to a publication that I respected and read frequently, hoping to provide conservatives a perspective they may not have viewed before. I wanted to address why suicide was so high among transgender p...
Amazon Under Fire For Blocking an Anti-Transgender Book March 02, 2021
We often discuss the deafening silence of professors and writers in the face of campaigns to cancel or censor conservative writers. Indeed, many have supported blacklisting and censorship. That disturbing silence is evident this week after Amazon app...
Amazon Gets Into the Censorship Business March 01, 2021
Just a week ago, I received an email from Ryan Anderson, who was recently tapped to lead the Ethics and Public Policy Center in Washington, D.C., and who wrote When Harry Became Sally: Responding to the Transgender Moment for me at Encounter Books ba...
Senators Ask Bezos Why Amazon Pulled Book March 01, 2021
A group of Republican Senators have written to Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos demanding answers as to why a book that 'challenges the transgender movement' has been pulled from the site.When Harry Became Sally was on the site's bestseller list with the book p...
When Amazon Erased My Book February 23, 2021
My book When Harry Became Sally: Responding to the Transgender Moment was released exactly three years ago. It was attacked twice on the New York Times op-ed page. The Washington Post ran a hit piece on it that was riddled with errors. It was obvious...
Amazon: Buy Anything, Except This Book February 23, 2021
Amazon.com, Inc., perhaps the most commanding force in American consumer culture, wants you to believe that the highly charged issue of transgenderism is resolved. It won’t allow its marketplace to entertain the conversation any longer.The company ha...
