Earlier this year, I was amazed, proud, and pleased to see so many LGBT streamers featured on Twitch for Pride Month. Now you release guidelines that has put many of us in worry and fear for our livelihood on the platform. I'm a trans streamer myself, and now I find myself confused and not understanding where this line in the sand is. Am I not permitted to discuss why my voice is deepening, and cracking on stream? Am I not allowed to let others know when they ask politely what I am? Hiding such a large and diverse portion of your creators, and suppressing them by algorithm or tag into less visibility -- is the very opposite of what you tell us by supporting us during pride month.

My existence is not political, I can live my life and be treated as a normal person and member of society and have that not be political. I'm just another living being.

I’m sick of companies and people who should know better continually pander to people who don’t have the right intentions whatsoever. This has disastrous implications for more than just the queer community

Awful suggestion. Obviously bigoted. Do better. Stop trying to censor queer people.

People simply talking about themselves and what's happening in their life is not a "sensitive social issue". I see no reason we should be "sensitive" to the users who are offended by the very existence of a person and cater to THEM by censoring everyone else from simply using the platform and being honest about themself

As someone who does not identify as LGBTQ+, but have friends who do, this policy only further marginalizes the community. Please stop hurting my friends Twitch. It hurts us all.

Discriminatory, foolish, and impractical to implement or enfornce, not that it SHOULD be enforced. Yeah, that's a twitch feature for you. We have moderation tools for a reason. We have automod for a reason. How about people use them, and Twitch remembers that must people aren't as backward as it is.

This is cowardly discrimination. This places responsibility onto the victims and not the perpetrators. Twitch cares more about making money than about fairness and safety. You shouldn't allow the bullies to win.

Even IF you accept that being queer is a "sensitive social issue" - by dissuading people from talking about it, from talking about their *own experiences* you're making that problem WORSE by silencing those who just want to be normalized. And designating queer issues as "sensitive" only makes them *more sensitive*. Cut this out, twitch.

Our existence is not a "sensitive social issue".

As a trans queer, this claude is disgusting and discriminatory. I would not be allowed to say ANYTHING about myself without having to worry about it being considered a "sensitive social issue" (all because some people get their panties in a twist over a queer person being mentioned). Either I keep silent and fear mentioning anything about myself gets me flagged for not tagging correctly, or I have to use this tag and no one clicks on my stream.
We're streamers. We're supposed to be allowed to talk about who we are.

i'm not a politics major nor am i that knowledgeable about the constitution, but this feels like it kinda blocks freedom of speech a bit. 1 limiting topics that can be discussed and 2 limiting the spaces where they can be discussed. we need big platforms with lots of people who can talk about these sensitive topics, hopefully people learn something and can better direct their future.

My very being is not a "sensitive social issue." My life, sighed complaints about issues my friends and I face in various parts of the United States (from Utah to the Midwest to Georgia), and the simple fact of our existing while being queer is going to come up while we talk between rounds of tabletop combat. There is nothing deviant about being alive as we are. It's 2024. We do not need to apply "WARNING: THE GAYS" labels to content and art.

It really is stupid. Peoples experiences, lives, journey and the stories made along the way either want to be shared or kept hiding. But besides that it can be a learning experience for many and an escape for some for their own gender. Twitch does seriously need to buck there ideas up if they want to continue. Silencing lives or treating them as they aren't human. I may not be apart of the LGBTQIA+ but this is well out of order for many. I hope sanctions are put in place for twitch's actions for this rule

I am trans and queer. This is not a choice. This is an unavoidable facet of my everyday life. The constant assaults to my rights and to my safety are also just everyday life for me, even when they are not actively manifested on a given day.

Forcing streams that represent me and give me a community and safe space to have a label on them only endangers their existence. No matter how harmless you may believe this label to be, it most certainly is NOT or you would have no reason to implement these rules.

It does not matter that these rules also affect those who would see us harmed. They disproportionately favors our aggressors by the simple fact that for them, their hate is a choice, soemthign they can choose to not engage in, whereas we cannot simply stop existing as ourselves.

These rules give our aggressors tools to harrass and endanger our safe spaces and communities that are already under constant assault by trolls and biggots. Even if bans do not occur, forcing the label still endangers those channels by endangering the livelihood of those streamers providing us with these communtiies where we gather. Hateful individuals WILL mass report us, and the past has PROVEN that your own autmated systems and policies will kick in and cause issues for the attacked streamers.

You claim "There is no place on Twitch for racism, hatred, or harassment of any kind..." but these rules show you to either be outright liars and hypocrites, or show a staggering lack of self-awareness and understanding of how the platform works and what effects these rules have.

Be Better, Twitch.

It's genuinely such a stupid rule. Just goes to show how little twitch actually cares about these issues.

Pretty sure describing the nature in which I am an alive human being should not result in being flagged and silenced by people who do not want me to be an alive human being.

Often people may filter for certain kinds of content they want to see, but why remove the possibility that someone might learn something or experience empathy because they were watching a stream they enjoyed? If they don’t want to hear about some subject that comes up, they can simply leave, but maybe they won’t! Maybe they will benefit! Why remove the possibility? This rule undercuts the process of community building in which streamers set and curate their own rules for their stream on a more personal basis than a filter ever could. Aside from all that, such a rule would absolutely contribute to the stigmatization of living, breathing humans and severely limit the scope of their interactions on the platform in a way that cannot be seen as anything but discriminatory.

We already have seen how this damaged Youtube creators when the same system was implemented years ago. You are going to harm your creators by de-monetizing them. You are going to hurt content by forcing everyone who wants to do this as a living, to make sure they are "advertizer friendly."

giving bigoted people another tool to silence queer people is just gonna end in so much more hate. We gotta normalize queer lives, not politicalize them. Talking about what YOU ARE should never be considered a sensitive issue

Existing isn't political.