just existing and streaming with my loved ones and discussing our lives is not a social issue, i will not go quietly into the night, i will not be removed from view for someone else's comfort
if being trans is a controversial subject then my entire life is political, if you continue this course then don't "support" streamers by promoting LGBTQIA streamers and calling it progressive,
we are approaching 100 years since our ancestors where labelled deviants and forced to wear a pink triangle to identify themselves, this feels very reminiscent of this
i also want to point out the idiocy of not being able to talk about war, abortion rights, LGBTQIA issues etc, to remove those ideas is to remove them from gaming, gaming has always had these issues, and to ignore that is to ignore gaming,

Incredibly dangerous precedent being set here twitch,

What a right-wing shitshow. They try everything to silence us.

**** so me existing as a human is contraversial... very cool twitch. what is this the **** 1900s???!!!

listen i don't wanna be mean or anything to Twitch staff so please excuse my french here, but this is something i would in fact label as being a bit bonkers, maybe even a lil tad bit goofy on twitch's part

Are existence shouldn't be labeled controversial just let us be who we are why is so hard to mind your own business while we mind ours

yeah, no. putting the existence of queer people in the same category as war, politics and religion is just stupid.

A person's right to exist is not a 'sensitive topic' and should not be treated as such. Doing so only enables those who spread hateful bigotry on such topics as they use these to silence opposition while continuing as if their rhetoric is 'normal'. This is evidenced extensively on other platforms such as YouTube and Twitter where these rulings are only used to silence supporters while being ineffective and unenforced on those spreading blatantly hateful, fascist and supremacist rhetoric.

Absolutely ridiculous clause!!! My community shouldn’t be punished for the actions of bigots. All this clause does is signal to the worst kinds of people that twitch and by extension gaming as a whole are for them and not for everyone.

Being LGBT+ is just part of life for my self and many others. This label claims out existence is inherently political. I am also disabled. Will we get a label to put on our accounts for that too? Because it makes people uncomfterble when I talk about disability? Obviously not, so why is it LGBT+ treated that way?

my existence is not political, it just is

i'm as much trans and queer as a short person is short or an old person is old; not a political or controversial statement

i would like to know why exactly talking about who i literally am or how my life goes is supposedly worthy of an arbitrary "explicit content" label

if it's perfectly fine for me to be trans in a grocery store, then it should be just as perfectly fine on a streaming platform

Why can we not just be allowed to exist in peace?! That is literally all we want?! When did "I just want to ******* live!!!!!" become a controversial statement?!

Discrimination is a violation of the basic human rights as declared by the United Nations.
I would suggest Twitch removes this bullet point before they get a lawsuit filed against them by Amnesty International.

Also, anyone reading this should look up what the human rights are if they haven't done so yet. Knowing your rights can't hurt.

This is horrific! Unless you are getting cis, straight creators to label themselves as such on their stands, just for existing as cis het, then there should be no requirement for anyone else. Existing is NOT a socio-political situation unless you're a bigot!

Everyone has a gender identity - even if they refuse to acknowledge it *looks at the cis people who claim that 'cis' is a slur"). Do cis people have to label their content because of their existence as cis? No? Then how is this fair?

You're gonna lose a LOT of content creators for this BS!

our existences aren't "controversial topics" it's our lived LIVES
asking us to mark ourselves this way is pretty much the pink triangle all over again

Very much agreed with the above, and just as much of a common sense interview as any characteristic or difference between streams!

Didn't realise my existence was a "sensitive social issue". I thought there was a situation about 80 years ago where people who thought like that and acted on rules like this one were generally considered wrong. I think it started slowly with rules similar to this before escalating greatly. In fact considering how dire it got, I think it was less of a situation and more like the entire world was involved. Weird. Anyway stupid harmful rule that will only lead to abuse and be used to hurt those it is about.

Politics are one thing. People's very existences are another. Why should someone not be allowed to talk about their personal experiences and life on their stream? People watch streamers for 2 reasons: they like the games they play, and they're interested in the person streaming. Taking away a person's right to talk about who they are and what they've gone through in their life is taking away that from not only the streamer, but the viewers as well.

Personally, I'm asexual, and it took me a long time to realize that, because, unlike heterosexuality and homosexuality, asexuality is glossed over entirely. I didn't even know it existed until my late 20s/early 30s. My life would have been so much different if people around me had've talked about it, and I could have learned it existed.

"But how does this matter with game streaming?" one may ask? I play JRPGs, and I enjoy games like Persona or Fire Emblem. Both of which have dating mechanics. "Don't you find X hot?" "Why don't you date/marry Y?" Those are things that come up often when someone is playing or streaming a game that includes dating mechanics. Without the ability to discuss my asexuality, I can't talk about how these mechanics, especially ones that get forced on you, make me uncomfortable. I can't talk about how I can't bring myself to finish Fire Emblem Awakening, because I'm a completist, and that means I want to get all of the children and their stories, but to do that requires pairing off my characters to make them HAVE the kids. I can't talk about how relieved I was that the later Persona games let you chose between intimate and non-intimate resolutions to the Rank 10 Social Links/Confidants.

I am asexual. It's a part of who I am. It's not political or "sensitive." I may not set out specifically to talk about it, but it's something that very easily could come up while chatting with viewers or just talking about my gaming experience. I should not be violating the rules for doing this.

I would actually go as far as to say remove the final two bullet points. My race is also not political and talking about my live experiences on a stream is not political. It’s my life.

This label is a terrible idea that will obviously be used to target those that are forced to use it. Get rid of it