You can do better, Twitch.

This bullet point would only be another step towards this weird sanitizing process of the internet. It has been, and could still be, a place of wonder where people from all around the world, all manner of identities, can come together. If you come across something/someone you don't agree with, it's *so easy* to just... not interact with it/them. We do not need online platforms to 'protect' us from something some other people decided might be disagreeing with our own standpoint. If you can have a Twitch account, you should be able to think for your own **** self and have the brains to say to yourself "hey, this creator is talking about stuff I don't like/agree with/want to listen to, so instead of blaming them for their experiences and beliefs, I'll just watch something else". Stop trying to censor people in a misguided attempt to 'protect' others.

So instead of dealing with terminally online snowflakes that can't fathom the fact that other peoples lives are none of their fricking business and can't help themselves from harassing others, which is illegal in multiple countries you make business in by the way... You decided the force people to either ignore their existence or out themselves... Peoples lives and existence aren't political... Grow a spine

Our existence isn't "sensitive", we are human

Yeah my wife is bi so...me not being able to talk about my partner is pretty *********.

Yet another instance of me just being myself (trans) is labeled as "political", yippe. What even are "sensitive" topics at this point, I remember "sensitive issues" were things related to mental health, topics that might be triggering to those who've had experience with the things being discussed. Apparently now among topics that can be found "triggering" is people wanting to be treated like people. Got it.

It starts with LGBT people then starts slipping to race and I refuse to let that happen. Imagine, a bunch of creators, content, and money leaving because them existing is 'sensitive'.

How dare you. How dare you. How dare you. How dare you. How dare you. I'm so tired of the pursuit of profit being put above the lives of those most marginalized. I'm so sick and tired of bigotry and hatred being profitable enough to cater towards. Human rights are not up for debate. These corporations have no morality. Twitch is disgusting for even insinuating this.

Really disgusting how you're willing to label someone's entire existence as a "sensitive political issue" when you're more than willing to overlook people slinging slurs, encouraging doxxing and stalking, and spreading other hateful rhetoric. You are literally encouraging the first step towards eugenics and genocide of "undesirables". Please don't do this.

our existence is not a sensitive social issue unless you've never gone anywhere beyond your backyard

You have an entire community telling you the problems here. Please listen

Trans rights are human rights!

Brilliant stuff. Forcing marginalized people to out themselves? Catering to the terminally online who've never interacted with women and queer people? Kick rocks. Absolutely not.

Our existence and rights are not up for discussion. We fight every single day to make space for ourselves, and against the brain rot that leads to shameful decision-making like this. Imagine if ANY other legitimate platform of this size even suggested something along these lines.

Reevaluate yourselves, Twitch.

if my existence as a bisexual, nonbinary, polyamorous individual on twitch is going to be considered a "sensitive social issue" on par with literal wars going on across the world right now then i am very glad i cancelled my subs.

trans rights are human rights. nothing political or sensitive about it.

So trans people are a "sensitive social issue" but lolcow streams stealing content from creators or harassing random POC are not.

I'm sorry, but as someone who mostly comes to Twitch for gaming content and has to deal with the front page recs being always full of vile idiocy, I don't think shutting up queer people and immigrants trying to talk about their own lives is the solution to getting rid of it.

If Twitch wants an apolitical platform, they can start with denying bigots the right to be bigoted on their platform first.

Not okay, Twitch. You are confusing sensitive issues with people being sensitive about another's existence or medical needs. This label is going to act as a dog whistle for bigots to harass creators who are already dealing with being demonized by racist, sexist, prejudiced bigots. It makes as much sense as requiring Black, femme-presenting, and disabled (basically anyone not a white heteronormative Christian male) creators to be labeled as a sensitive issue. You are catering to a garbage take, and I hope that the backlash from reasonable and decent people is as swift as it should be.

the idea that twitch counts lgbtq conversations as "social issues" shows how they really view queer people and how them literally just existing is threatening to them :/

My existence is not a "political issue." Labeling it as such is dangerous and does harm in so many ways.

The new list of "controversial" things shows a damning lack of awareness by Twitch. You go out of you way to put things such as being LGBT, an immigrant and talking about fundamental things such as reproductive rights and the right to exist as we are in the same breath as actual tragedies like war, along with calling aforementioned things "ideologies". That is disingenuous, harmful to literally everyone and shows an absolute failure of Twitch management to understand their audience. Remove the bullet points for reproductive issues, LGBTQ+ people and immigrants. Those aren't "sensitive political issues", they are simply regular human beings wanting to exist as their best selves.

People should be able to talk about their experiences as part of the LGBT+ community without being labelled as 'political'. Existing is not political.