If a prince and a princess can kiss in a kid's movie, two princes or princesses shouldn't raise any eyebrows either

As someone who has been using Twitch for over three years, I have seen a lot of changes taking place. This is by far one of the worst. LGBTQA people are not 'sensitive social issues', neither is discussing reproductive rights. These are subjects that have been left to the wayside for so many, and many streamers don't mind educating curious people on these subjects.

My way of life is not a sensitive social issue, it's a human issue, because that is what I am.

As a trans person I do not intend to label my content so I can talk about... myself.

Asking about someone's gender identity/sexuality should be as normal as asking someone about their hair, gatekeeping it and making it political is just as stupid as making hair political

Not just an LGBTQ+ issue either, people talking about how being discriminated against for their race, religion, or disabilities influences their lives would be impacted too, as well as cis women. This is capitulation to the worst voices out of cowardice.

LGBTQ+ people existing, both in the world and as creators and viewers on Twitch, is not a political issue. Those who believe it is do so because they believe that LGBTQ+ people should not exist at all. This policy is discriminatory and should not be implemented.

the right for someone to exist should NOT be considered political

People’s human rights are not “sensitive social issues.” If you get offended by people having rights, reflect on yourself.

This is something that is deplorable to see from a platform such as twitch which has harbored and given voice to so many LGBTQ+ creators and has given so many people the ability and strength to come out and to be the person they want to be in life the. As a trans woman I understand that trans and other LGBTQ+ topics are in the forefront of a lot of media attention and this is most likely an attempt to have things labeled so that people can find each other more easily and find the people that discuss issues that pertain to LGBTQ+ people at least that is me being as charitable as possible. We cannot change who we are and making us have to be all public voices for these issues isn't the answer. LGBTQ+ people want to be people not political pundits there are a lot of people that just want to play games and not have everything orbiting around their identity. If they want to take the time to mention said topics that have been affecting them then they shouldn't have to take the time to correctly label a stream because the people in that stream are there for the creator not that they are a political arm for a movement. It disappoints me that we have taken something so great like letting the LGBTQ+ people decide what they want to show and tell to their followings and have taken their agency and making them have to label everything before they speak. This actively discourages creators from discussing such topics and if people are mad about said topics they can leave the stream that's the beautiful thing about twitch is that if you don't want to have that conversation you can just leave and, it also hinders the ability to have a discussion with people of differing viewpoints that come in with negative opinions and the person they have come to enjoy watching if they had to label themselves from the beginning they might not have allowed this person find that their preconceived notions about LGBTQ+ people and allowed for that person to humanize this group of PEOPLE fellow human beings who will have similar taste in games or other pop culture. My final point being if you are making these changes to "protect" the people that don't want to discuss these things you are ignoring and quite frankly hurting the LGBTQ+ creators.

Where's the line then, huh? If gender and sexuality are "sensitive subjects", what else? Where does catering to bigotry end?

Human Rights being misrepresented as a "political issue" is absurdity itself

People who exist should not be listed as a sensitive topic. That's a huge step backward and it should be reverted immediately.

Forcing streamers who either are LGBTQ+ or talk about LGBTQ+ topics to add a classification label for “Politics and Sensitive Social Issues” to their streams is completely unacceptable. This forces them out of a shared space by simply existing and loving who they love. There is no controversy, only bigotry.

Twitch, if you fail to fix this issue, I will find a different way to support my favorite creators than through your platform. I can not and will not condone this behavior!

It's not a "sensitive issue" that my everyday life involves me being transgender. I would very much like for my very existence to not be politicized.

Okay, this is such a dead horse but it bears repeating.
You are tired, I am tired, we are all tired, but this is all again "strangely" affecting people again that are anything but male, white, cisgender, or hetero.

It's a common tactic by bigots and/or fascists to politicize whole swaths of identities or classifications of people in order to more easily divide, suppress and ultimately eradicate them, please don't be a platform or tool to these kind of tactics, Twitch.

This is not a sensitive social issue, these are human rights. Please, make this world better)

Hey yeah for me it's not a "sensitive issue" it's my day to day life.

Gay people, immigrants and women are whole people, it turns out.

We just want to live and be able to be ourselves the same as anyone else. This is too far.

We need to stop treating LGBTQ+ people like **** all the time, they've done nothing wrong and don't deserve any of this. It's absolute bull**** that this is even being considered as such and I'm getting tired of seeing more stuff that negatively impacts LGBTQ people

Didn't think my very existence would be deemed political but here we are.