Inclusion of "socially sensitive issues" will only serve to give more power to queerophobic people to bully and harass us from your platform. This will give credence to the notion that our mere existence is political.

This would be like saying it's socially sensitive to discuss whether or not women should vote.

By enabling this policy, Twitch is effectively silencing queer folk on the platform to speak out against the status quo when really all we want is to be able to live our lives without having to constantly worry about wearing a mask to make other people feel comfortable.

LGBTQIA+ people should not need to self label themselves as political just for existing. Women should not need to self label themselves as political for demanding basic bodily autonomy rights. Treating immigrants as human beings rather and advocating for them to be treated as such should not constitute political speech.

My existence isn't sensitive or political. Others try to force it to be and my own existence is stifled by this kind of policy.

In a world where automated enforcement takes precedence and can ruin people's lives before a human ever sees it, this can't stand. I've already had a hard enough time working up the energy to deal with everything that comes with streaming on this platform before this, and if I can get dinged by someone who decides my existence is political, then as far as I'm concerned, I cannot continue to use this platform. Which, a purge may be what the higher-ups told you to do to cut costs, but it represents a very real trampling of people's livelihoods and self-expression.

EDIT: Well, and the people affected don't even need to be LGBTQ+ themselves, they just need to talk about it. I know you say it needs to be the focus, but I think you all know as well as I do that people can and will create false reports, and that those can *significantly* materially hurt the person being reported before anyone can actually look at the content in question.

Even with it being a contentious electoral season in the United States, the notion that streamers would need to use their limited tag count to politicize their streams in order to discuss their lived experiences and challenges under the white allocisheteronormative patriarchal establishment is asinine

Whoever drafted this bullet point and whoever okayed it are clearly the sort of person who should never be alone with a vulnerable person bc best case scenario they're going to hold them socially captive while they complain about how persecuted they are (they aren't)

Trans rights are human rights. Being non-heteronormative isnt "political."

As a nonbinary/pansexual disabled Individual my existence should not be considered sensitive or political. No ones existense should ever be classified as sensitive or political!

This is absurd, tone deaf and dangerous in regards the simply acceptance that lgbtq+ ppl EXIST. What is this, how did this even get considered, this is problematic in so many levels. Where is the pride you said you had? Give us a direct answer then, whose money is causing this stupidity?

I have two LGBTQ streamer friends who twitch purposely left marks on their accounts due to hate raids against them despite agreeing that the temp ban the hate raid caused wasn't their fault, and now this? No doubts about it Twitch is run and operated by bigots who want their cake and eat it too trying to put down and censor LGBTQ creators while still making money off them.

My existence as a trans person isn't political. rewrite the bullet points to exclude any mention of needing queer people to tag their content as "politically sensitive".

This is a rule that hugely only affects one side. Labeling these as "sensitive" issues and disallowing the discussion of these topics unless labeled will silence those who are fighting to keep those liberties in order to avoid being harassed.

Queer identity isn't political. The vitriol and systemic attempts to silence, hide, and outright remove queer individuals has always tried to frame our existence as a statement, but it isn't. We just want to live. If there is a statement to be made, it is this: stop giving hate a voice at the table.

Twitch this is unacceptable, Treating LGBTQ+ like we're some political topic is Disgusting and absurd, people existing is not political, people should be able to talk about themselves without it being deemed so, if you pass this you are just allowing discrimination to happen on your platform, my right to exist shouldn't be censored. FIX THIS!

Thanks for making my existence politically sensitive, and a way for trolls to drive away potential ad revenue from me.

Simply existing as a LGBT person, person of color, disabled person, veteran, and/or woman is political. This rule WILL be used to discriminate against minorities and violate civil rights in the United States. As it is, it is NOT legal to discriminate against these groups in the United States- so refusing to remove this classification opens Twitch up to lawsuits, and potential criminal charges.

Do better, and stop discriminating against legally protected classes!

this change is nothing short of censorship

My LGBTQ+ friends shouldn't have to justify EXISTING

labeling LGBTQ streamers as "political" is a complete joke and a horrible attempt at trying to "both sides" your way out of supporting streamers who get harassed due to their mere existence. You cannot both push Pride and then do this. You cannot push acceptance and being proud of your LGBT creators, and then permit this.

Do better, Twitch.

My right to exist shouldn't be considered a "political point"

In addition, we need to remove or revise the second-last bullet point!

A streamer who offhandedly mentions "I'm gay", or in the course of normal sharing mentions some difficulty they were having with getting their prescription for HRT filled, is intrinsically stating "my *ideological and socio-political view* is that my *gender or sexuality* is real and valid" and inescapably implies that they think their identity (and presumably most if not all others) should be respected. This is, by the plain-letter language of Twitch's new rule, explicitly forbidden. Leaving the rule in place as stated will be a blanket ban on any streamer who is openly non-cisgender and/or non-heterosexual, and will require any streamer who joins in the future to be closeted.

By the way, considering how long Asmongold was permitted to operate the way he did, I also do not believe the community can trust Twitch to apply such a heavy-handed rule evenly. (I somehow doubt that the same sort of blanket ban would be applied to any male streamer who talked about his girlfriend, or vice-versa...)