Trans tag request
It is hard enough finding trans representation in our daily lives. With the LGBTQIA+ tag, one still needs to browse through channels and spend time in them to find trans streamers. A "trans" tag would help people searching for these communities.
Today we are rolling out 350+ tags, including the transgender tag, to provide you with more options on how you express yourself and your content, so that you can more easily connect with one another and build wonderful communities. We are really appreciative for all of the feedback around this topic (and other related suggestions).
We previously told you that we had a better solution to this request than adding the tag, and we were wrong. This has been one of the most popular requests we’ve heard, and the simple truth is that we should have done this sooner. In an effort to think carefully about how to best address this, we only made the situation more difficult. Again, thank you for helping us throughout this process in reevaluating our stance.
Please continue to share ideas and feedback you have to UserVoice, as well as any suggestions for additional tags you feel we may have missed! We are working to invest more into this forum and aim to have faster communications in the future.
Please check out our blog post for more info: https://blog.twitch.tv/en/2021/05/26/celebrate-yourself-and-your-community-with-350-new-tags/
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RothiiTV commented
@NicktheTiefling TWITCH ISNT EVEN MOVED IT TO UNDER/INTO CONSIDERATION! NOT EVEN NEED MORE INFORMATION! THEY ARE GIVING US...NOTHING but transphobia
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aTransTiefling commented
So it's been 2 years and the "team" is still taking this request "into consideration" ? Please do it Twitch!
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RothiiTV commented
8001 votes. Is twitch going to give us what we are asking for or is twitch simply transphobic?
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Mirby_Studios commented
Yeah the initial request was posted over 2 years ago. 25 months. And still nothing? Why is this so hard to do? And the last "check in" was in October... sure seems like y'all've forgotten us.
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hyruleshelbs commented
Extremely disappointed that this is something we still need to ask you guys for. Should have already existed years ago, months ago at the VERY least. PLEASE listen to your communities. We’re literally screaming what we need at you and you don’t seem to care.
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itsFleee commented
Hi can yall just do it already? Its literally not that hard.
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CBJPlay commented
If targetting people for abuse was a valid excuse for not having this tag, you wouldn't have any tags; the same applies to the LGBTQ+ tag and you have that, this is not doing anything different except for helping trans people find each other.
Trolls will always exist, there will always be people looking to send abuse to people. Stop punishing trans/nb people as a 'deterrant' to those inevitable trolls; instead, deal with those trolls effectively!
And also, streamers have moderation tools for their channels. If you think your own moderation tools are inadequate then that is on you to fix them; and if you believe those tools are good enough, then trust your streamers with them, trust that your creators are capable of moderating their own channels, and implement a trans tag.
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sillyhorseradish commented
Welp, time to go stream on YouTube 🤷
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HighRollerHydra commented
Post #7 from me, and right now I'm about to give up on asking for the tag to be added. Twitch obviously doesn't care about trans streamers.
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rpg_kai commented
Don’t patronise us and tell us we’ll be targeted with the tag... we are already targeted. Trans streamers like me are saying over and over we want the Trans Tag. How about listening to us???
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Mirby_Studios commented
Yeah, even if a trans tag will make us more visible to trolls, we can moderate our own channels. Trolls already come in to channels to harass us without the tag, adding the tag won't change that.
What adding a tag WILL do is allow trans folks like myself to find each other, support each other, uplift each other. Fearmongering and worrying about WELL WHAT IF THIS BAD THING HAPPENS doesn't help the conversation, we're all aware of those potential outcomes. But even despite those, we all still want this tag. 1000+ comments, nearing eight times that many upvotes.
Twitch do the right thing here. Your waffling on the topic helps nobody and only serves to hurt yourselves. We want this no matter what bad things may come of adding it, so just add it already okay?
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IsMiseAaron commented
@HIGHFUNCTIONINGZOMBIE .... You do realise Trans* people are still targeted regardless of if they are "easily" found or not. Yeah it does create a directory, but it also allows Twitch users to easily find their folks. A 3rd party have already created a tool because Twitch was unable to spend 5 mins to add a tag.
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skankhunt007 commented
Being a minority with little representation, having a trans tag would truly help us folks who search for interaction with others like themselves. Especially in a time where we've been stuck in our houses with little live interaction. Adding a trans tag to the Twitch platform could change so much and give more folks more of an opportunity.
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RothiiTV commented
@HighFunctioningZombie - you act like your spite is something that truly is going to make the difference and you fail to realize that we know the pros and cons but the pros really outweigh the cons. Why is it a 3rd party can literally do exactly what we are looking for in a nonproblematic way yet twitch can look at this and disregard everything and be like sorry we are busy working on *shuffles through papers* FOOD AND DRINK MONTH! Like ok. But go off. act a fool
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HighFunctioningZombie commented
i hope everyone realizes that if they add this tag it will make it demonstrably easy for people to find and harass that group. this is not a prefect world and it never will be so if this is added you will have to make your chat follow only and might even have to set the follow to a week. sure you can ban them but nothing stops them from making a account just for that reason. if twitch wants to add it they will i dont care enough to click the little vote button. mainly just to spite the little spammer below me.
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amethyst3333 commented
Come in man
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amethyst3333 commented
Will take two seconds
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amethyst3333 commented
Y’all act like you don’t just click a button
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amethyst3333 commented
Literally just do the thing
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amethyst3333 commented
Is it that hard to be supportive ?