LGBTQ rights are not a political standpoint. They are someone's existence, and while someone can choose to be of a political party, they can't choose to be gay or bi. It is immensely ignorant of you especially in 2024, to keep thinking it as such. Do not make someone's existence a political talking point, that's what happened to Twitter, and look at what it is now.

Immigration is a complex issue that, while can be used as a political talking point, should not be prohibited as a topic when there are people whose lives are in genuine danger and their only choice is to flee their home. To prohibit discussion on this matter is callous.

Preventing the discussion of reproductive rights is a dog-whistle for misogyny, preventing women from speaking about their own rights to their own body.

The worst part of this bullet point is that the only person it doesn't affect is a cisgender heterosexual man. You must realise how suffocating this would be for everyone else who isn't that in your community, even outside of the US.

This is not a sensitive social issue. These are human rights.

Minorities existing and living their lives isn't controversial, you're just capitulating to bigotry.

Hey twitch, remember the last time you did this exact thing and it was bad for everyone? Why hasn't everyone positively involved in this decision been fired already?

This will not only hurt the majority of your userbase, but your bottom line as well.

Wow.... what a way to say the LGBTQ+ people are a sensitive social topic and shouldn't be here. For all of LGBTQ+ history there have been people that frown on our way of life and it looks like twitch doesn't approve of the LGBTQ+ community or want us here.

For many years of my life, I had grown up as a cisgender heterosexual person. I had always felt off and never felt like I was truly being myself, but I never knew why. It took me a long time to realize that I'm actually a gender-nonconforming pansexual person. A person. We are still people at the end of the day. Not social issues or political topics. We are people. Treat us as such.

Dude if they wish to talk about their experiences let them

The very idea of my existence being considered political is evil.

I cant believe that the existence of LGBTQIA+ people has come to be painted as a political or controversial topic.

This is just nonsense and I won't stand for this.

I just want to live my life as who I am while loving who I love! That's it...

Aaand then twitch thought it'd be a great idea to basically say "nuh uh you life, who you are and who you love is actually a social/political issue comparable to freaking WAR!" literally putting both of them under the same category in their guidelines.

My existence is not a sensitive issue. My existence is not a political issue. My existence is not to be compared to war and genocide. Shame on you twitch. Do better!

Our existence as queer people is not a "sensitive social issue." We exist and are not equal to war.

Absolutely ridiculous idea used to keep people down for simply being people.

How is a human being literally just existing a "sensitive topic". That is how Germany began treating Jews back when the Nazi-party came to power, labeling storesowned by jews and detering anyone to shop there.
While yes, that comparison seems at first a bit drastict, it's apparently not for twitch as they mention lgbtq+ - topics in the same breath as war and civil unrest.
I genuinely don't think twitch wants to be like the nazis, but mandating labels for normal innocent topics like lgbtq+ and by doing so essentially saying that they're as bad as civil unrest and war... that's just stupid and I hope that Twitch changes that.
That is a dangerous precedent and a massive step backwards if those guidelines as they are now would take effect

This absolutely will be used to censor LGBT people and our freedom

The policy choice to make LGBTQ+ users either publicly fully out themselves and put a permanent tag on their stream or refrain from any mention of their LGBTQ+ status has some horrifying historical precedents.
I generally advise against policy that makes it easier to target people for their identities, and I'd advise even more strongly against allowing people whose objection to LGBTQ+ topics boils down to "LGBTQ+ people don't/shouldn't exist because I don't like them" to have their bigotries catered to.
A person's existence isn't a "sensitive issue" to anyone that isn't a bigot, and bigotry should not be tolerated in any form.

Treating my existence as a sensitive topic is gross. Also on the topic I'm no lady but preventing women from discussing what they do with their body is just straight up illegal in much of the world (since it would constitute sex based discrimination in the workforce) so if anything Twitch is shooting itself in the foot pretty hard by trying to enforce this ****. Like all this asinine nonsense just so conservatives can have some safe space against being challenged on their fascistic beliefs.

If this stays, I’m quitting twitch.

trans people are only controversial to dumb *****.. why is yo *** pandering to dumb assess:skull:
Trans Rights!!!
she/they

My existence as a trans person is not political nor explicit, and none of the creators I watch, follow, etc should have to dance around it.

This has happened before, will happen again, but I- and many others- will be here every single time to stop this nonsense.

LGBTQIA+ identities are NOT controversial or political, and framing our existence as such is wrong and deeply misguided at best.