This update has been totally botched. As soon as you frame LGBTQIA+ people as controversial simply for existing then you've capitulated to the side holding the bigoted views. If you don't rescind this point ASAP your public reputation is very likely to suffer drastically.

Honestly, anyone that had any part in thinking this up or approving it needs to be fired. I don't care what else they do, they really don't need to be in charge of anything if they're using their job to blatantly attack several seperate minority groups.
They're not "sensitive social issues", it's common sense and letting people live their lives vs wanting to take away any and all human rights they have.
This kind of thing is ultimately what allows for things like concentration camps and genocide of groups.
I haven't even logged in to twitch in several years, to the point I had to actually go find the email it uses, the fact I'm even here right now should tell you how widespread this is getting and just how much bad press it gets you.

my rights to exist are not political . my human rights aren't on the same stage as war and politics, people choose to make it a conflict . i have no choices but to wake up everyday and be who i am and that is a trans fem individual just trying to exist in my life . this policy hurts an already marginalized group . we should have the right to speak about these topics open and freely

Ah yes, excuse me for existing, I'll just vanish now. I'm so sorry that being trans and queer and wanting to live as who I am without the fear of being hate crimed brings so much controversy to Twitch, where I used to exist freely. Yes, please Twitch, turn us into witches so the hunters can go back to their favorite hobby, burn us at the stake ! We're not people after all, just statistics, right ? Give us more oppression, that's totally what we needed in 2024 !

If you're tone deaf, that was sarcasm. You're putting us all up for bullying and cyber harrassment and possibly more when we know what happens to marginalized people, and you're not even slick about it. That's repulsive, and for sure, I'll let everyone I know not to support Twitch, nor Amazon if those companies deem our mere existence problematic and actively side with the ones who want us gone... and by "gone", I mean "dead". Keep acting like this, you won't be on the right side of history.

LGBTQ+ rights, reproductive rights are basic human rights. Leave us and people of color alone. We don't owe you silence.

Absolutely repugnant to compare these issues. Trans people exist as they are, regular human beings every single day of their lives.

You cannot equate talking about someone's life experience in a casual setting to Demonizing them as part of a political or hate filled mindset.

Speaking to the money men at Twitch...
Is the intent of this policy change to damage the Twitch brand? A divisive and angered community will likely lead to boycotting, lowered subscriptions, and more users getting banned, causing an outflow of users. Less users will mean advertisers will renegotiate contracts, with the ammunition of 'less users means we will not pay as much'.

It is absolutely ridiculous that this was even thought to be okay in the first place. My life is NOT a sensitive social issue. It's MY LIFE! I just want to stream and live my life in peace. That doesn't feel like too much to ask.

LGBTQ+ topics aren't issues.
People can exist. There's nothing wrong with people simply existing.
Going through with this can only go badly, hurting both LGBTQ+ spaces -and- Twitch as a platform.
This feels like we are going backwards in terms of basic human rights. Shame on whoever brought this up truthfully.

Twitch be going crazy with these new terms wtf

The fact your makes forcing LGBTQ+ persons and anyone wishing to talk about reproductive rights to have the tag "sensitive social issues" on the cusp of a national election in the United States where LGBTQ+ persons and women are facing having their rights taken from them depending on which candidate wins the election. And given one of those candidates has stated they intend to punish any platforms on the internet that allows a platform to those topics I have to ask what is next. Should that candidate win the election are you then going to move and change the TOS and rules that those topics can no longer be talked about at all.

Any rules that silence LGBTQ+ people, immigrants, and reproductive rights discussions are going to force Twitch to moderate in favor of people using those topics as excuses to attack people.

Regardless of where you fall on these topics, Twitch should not be offering themselves up to fight for people with personal vendetta's. Please Twitch just stay neutral on these and moderate according to harassment and abuse rules already in place. Specifying them makes them attack vectors and increases your work load.

Already seeing queer people get slapped with this warning for just discussing the ToS change, which like other warnings comes with the removal of their emotes to be auto-approved w/o adherence appeal. Not someone who makes their money on political discussions on Twitch, mind you, just someone who was outspoken about it and got the warning mid-stream before going on and playing a game for the night like she usually does. This is absolutely abhorrent.

Life is already suffering for everyone by default, we do not need to add unnecessary suffering with further marginalization and discrimination. Fracturing the community hurts everyone in the end.

Human rights are not sensitive social issues.

Being a part of the streaming sphere with multiple content creators I follow, sub, and know as friends are going to be more hurt having their general existence or speaking about themselves be put under the umbrella of "Socio-political" content that needs to be given a warning or be seen as sensitive content. That and being one who's also part of this sphere I don't want others to have their communities be shorten and stunt due to their gender, sexuality, or so on.

I need someone to explain why me discussing my own identity during a stream can be see as a sensitive topic on the same level as a military conflict.

LGBTQ+ topics are not a "sensitive social issue" and shouldn't be labeled as such, while there are current political discussions about Trans people that doesn't define discussions on the topic as exclusively political and thus a "sensitive social issue"

If this goes through, it would imply that me talking about why I needed to see my doctor today or what I got my partner for our anniversary or simply showing up on screen can be seen as a "sensitive social issue" on the same level as a national security matter. I hope this helps more people understand why this change is a terrible idea and will not only drive viewers away from the platform, but also stop streamers that identify as LGBTQ+ from using the platform altogether.

People's existence is not political.

"sensitive social issues"

No, I think whoever wanted this in Twitch CC Guidelines is just weird to people. Learn to be decent and respectful.

My, and all my fellow 2SLGBTQIA+ person’s existences are not political. Shame on you for even considering this. Do better.

Lumping my existence and merely speaking about my day to day life as sensitive content due to my identity is about appeasing bad actors. This is a step in the wrong direction and I will not tolerate it. LGBTQIA+ topics are not inherently controversial except to those who are opposed to the human rights of LGBTQIA+ people. To lump this in with the likes of discussing actual war is disgusting. Do better, Twitch.