Referring to the existence of LGBTQIA+ people as sensitive, controversial, political, or ideological, is vile. This will only give ammunition to those who deal in hateful oppression.

people existing as themselves is not political. come on guys, this is ridiculous and cruel.

These are very relevant topics to many people's lives, and putting any kind of content label on them makes it hard for people to use the website daily. The issues are imoprtant and worth being discussed widely.

I get the classification, but queer people shouldn't be a "sensitive topic". It should be normal as well as the others.

This further marginalizes queer people as it alienates our day-to-day experiences as "political" when we're simply just living. These are NOT the same as a streamer doing deep-dives into politics such as polls, debates, highlighting media clips, having special guests for discussions, etc. This policy would essentially take money away from Twitch streamers who run ads and this in no shape or form is equitable. It's the exact opposite.

My existence is not a "sensitive social issue". I'm just a person.

My existence is not a sensitive topic.

Requiring these tags only makes it easier for hate raids to happen on twitch, and I don’t think it will make twitch any more positive or help positive communities thrive.

The day cisgender and heterosexual streamers have to flag their stream in case they might *talk about themselves* is the day this rule is fair. Until then, this is discriminatory and hurts vulnerable communities.

My identity as a gay trans man and my lived experiences shouldn't be seen as too political to even be seen or implied. The fact that we as a society have to even debate this is abysmal.

I would rather eat sand than continue to stay on or around anything involved with a website that would consider my mere existence or presence a "sensitive issue."

queer people existing is not a political issue, this censoring is entirely trying to appease those who discriminate against us and that’s stupid

Some people seem to view identities as

Sexualities: Straight and Political
Genders: Man and Political
Races: White and Political

Us existing is not a debate. Us existing is not sexual content. Us existing is not pornographic or innapropriate. LGBTQ+ people should be able to live their lives without being labeled as "political". Just because bigots attack us and make their politics about restricting our rights doesn't make our existence political.

Bad actors will use this rule to report people who mention their same-sex partners, parents, or friends. Video games with queer characters. People who don't conform to gender norms. Labeling us as "political" means that we have to hide our existence from the world, and that's not fair.

Like actually, that would not be cool Twitch. When I found a good friend of who I’ve been friends with for years now by randomly finding his twitch streams. I felt so accepted BECAUSE he talked about being queer and trans, its honestly nice talking about things that should be completely normal such as lgbtq+ topics.

It is discriminatory to enforce tags on LGBTQ+. While certain topics should be moderated, via age restrictions, we shouldn’t be segregating our community. Politics are more of an issue than someone’s identity as it was made to segregate voters. Before you know it, your relationship status will have to be a twitch tag.. - a straight male twitch viewer

I feel my previous comment was not what I needed it to be, so let me be more clear.
I am a Queer man. If I am labelled as a "sensitive issue", that is discriminating and degrading. I will leave the platform entirely if I am going to be labelled as such.

I found community on this site, I was able to open up more and explore that side of me because of connections I made on this site. I will take it all somewhere else that doesn't view me as an Other.

Queer people existing shouldn't be political. And practically, I don't understand how they could enforce this rule given how many games have queer characters in the narrative. I don't think it's practical to make every single person mark their stream as having sensitive social issues because they're playing Bladur's Gate or Life is Strange.

The LGBTQ+ community is not a sensitive subject. Queer people are not political. Labelling their existence as such is disgusting and unacceptable.

Queer people existing and discussing their existence as a marginalized group is not political.

Listin to your community twich, this feature will only futher the false idea that queer people existence is political and there for up for debate, which is not. Queer people existing isn't political, this feature will only spread hate and discrimination.

I am not a "sensitive social issue". I am a fully realized person. I WILL leave this platform completely the moment my identity becomes subject to quiet censorship.