The final bullet point of Article VII potentially targets a federally protected class, especially if it is used to affect monetization on Twitch. Under federal law, a queer person discussing their life is not a sensitive or political act, and classifying it as such leads the way to legal discrimination.

My life, my EXISTENCE, as a queer, trans woman, is only a "sensitive social issue" because hatemongers, transphobes, and the most unrelenting ignorant of individuals have forced the overall public discussion to be one. It is NOT the fault of racial or sexual minorities that they're the topic of massive political and sociological discussions - they, WE, are just trying to live. And this guideline makes that goal of ours a **** of a lot harder because now we have to be on the lookout ONCE AGAIN for people to harass us using YOUR OWN TOOLS.

This is a disgusting, pitiful, cowardly move on the part of Twitch and I hope you **** well change it by recognizing it for the terrible and dangerous idea it is.

Nobody's existence should be a cause for warning labels. LGBTQIA+, sexuality, and gender have no place falling under 'sensitive social issues'. The way these rules are currently written invites false reporting and hate raids against LGBTQ+, BIPOC, and other streamers who fall into marginalized groups.

We should not need a content warning just to talk about our existence!

It's absolutely ridiculous to pretend that you're being 'non-partisan' by clearly trying to keep the door open for the already rampant bigotry you struggle to control on this platform.

The rainbow flag is not just for June. Trans rights are life saving rights. Women's reproductive rights are an issue that is actively killing American women in such startling numbers, it's a wonder we haven't declared a state of total emergency.

Tolerance of bigotry is not bipartisan. Do not try to leave enough wiggle room to invite the neo-nazis of Kick to come here.

With the fact some consider anything LGBTQ+ related as "Political" this new rule now makes any LGTBQ+ streamer have to censor themselves from talking about their daily life or have a tag that will restrict them from the algorithm.

This will only be a tool to harass anyone LGBTQ+ by malicious actors mass reporting them as "untagged political commentary". Which is a group who gets enough hate as is just for wanting to exist.

This: My existence doesn't need a warning label and neither does talking about my existence.

If you try to preach diversity and "accepting all ideas" but you don't let one group exist without using warning labels, I don't think you're as "accepting of diversity" as you think you are.

If this goes through countless lgbtq+, poc, and other streamers who are inclusive and provide safe spaces will be falsely reported and hate raided much more simply for existing

This is a clumsy attempt to appeal to hate mongers by further marginalizing people who are already targets just because they exist. Please keep the platform available to everyone as some of the ones likely to be most affected are the ones that bring some of the most good to this platform's existence. We all should be supporting these creators as opposed to bringing a possible end to their participation.

all of the people i watch are marginalized in one way or another, i'm queer myself. and the fact that twitch wants to open them up to being hate raided and reported by right wing freaks is so ******. it makes it so obvious they don't give a **** about our safety. and the fact that advertisers can "opt out" of being advertised on these 'political' streams is just enabling the bigotry of large companies. my turbo subscription is immediately cancelled.

All this does is enable malicious reporting of lgbt streamers merely for existing. I know you'd like to say that that won't happen, but it happens on every single platform where it's an option, so there's no reason to trust that it won't happen here.

I beg of Twitch to reconsider the final bullet point and amend the policy without the section specifically as it does more harm than good for multiple content creators on your platform. Their lives are never political they have right to exist without these labels

Twitch talks a big game about diversity, and yet now I can't talk about my life without a warning label (and a target on my back even more so than before). I've really enjoyed twitch, but I think next week I'll try Picarto or Youtube, if I'm not going to be safe here.

This causes more damage to already marginalized communities. Going forward with the sensitive social issues clause would be destroying any hope of those communities having their voices heard. This is not right.

Wholeheartedly agree with this!