By enacting this policy, you will invite mass report campaigns with the intent to silence and harass anyone who doesn't share a far-right viewpoint, but especially people who *are* queer, or immigrants, or affected by reproductive rights issues. There is not a way to write an even remotely similar policy without it being used for hate and hate-motivated censorship, and the purpose of a system is what it does. Enforcement of the policy as written will result in a mass exodus of queer content creators and those who support them. It also makes you complicit in the hate campaigns the policy enables. My existence as a trans woman is not inherently political. The only reason it can be considered political if you squint is because of openly transphobic politicians.

This is unacceptable !

LGBT people aren't political. We're just trying to live our lives. The "political" ones are the people trying to start trouble and interfere with that.

With all due respect, grow a spine and stand up to disruptive people.

This is unacceptable, queer people should not be on par with genocide, or massacres.

I cannot imagine these labels ever being a good thing.

How would rules like this be applied? If I'm an artist streaming and I happen to be gay or trans and I speak about aspects of my life that are influenced by that (discussing my dating life which will have inherently gay language and cultural aspects, or mentioning how my experience socializing is different after transitioning) will my stream be locked down as "sensitive social issue?" Do the natural facts of my lived experience become contentious points needing censorship? If I want to mention in passing that I'm scared because my state is trying to pass laws that affect me negatively based around identity and orientation, does this mean that my entire stream will be locked down and marked as political? Discussing things like this for most humans isn't a 24/7 affair, many of us creative streamers talk about a number of different topics in a sitting. However, just as is typical for pretty much every person on earth, identity and sexuality are a pretty enormous aspect of our daily lives. This means that it'll come up in conversation probably at least a few times a day as we socialize. It seems like we are removing the ability to have realistic discussions with real words that have meaning and significance to people's lives, and the areas in which this rule is deciding to draw the line of 'political' is very telling. For me, my space needs to be openly lgbtq, and for people like me whose lives are heavily politicized by politicians, our ability to discuss what is happening to us organically is a part of that. That makes our chats have a much higher ratio of 'identity' discussions than people without that experience. Does that mean places such as mine will be forced to label?

how is LGBT+ been on the same par as war discussions, Please do better and thinks about how to make policy and actually do your job right

First good thing I've seen since justintv

This is so obv ripe for encouraging hate and bias. Do better.

our lives aren't politics and we shouldn't have to slap a "sensitive" label on ourselves. this is deranged.

queer people aren't political

As a trans woman my right to live is not "sensitive social issues" on the same level as discussing war and genocide. This policy is quite frankly disgusting and directly attacks a protected group

I guess everyone who is LGBTQ+ should just stop then right? Because they can’t exist without being political and controversial. We should just stop being so political.

Get rid it

The fact that that Twitch would want to make the mere discussion of people that are my friends and family a "political issue" is offensive and disgusting to the highest degree. If you go through with this, you're going to be on the wrong side of history

I really dislike how the world has decided that my mere existence is a political issue and needs to be suppressed. Please stop that.

Twitch seems like it's trying to make itself the worst platform. I honestly wonder why anyone sticks around.
Between the barely clothed women, banning of numerous vtubers without cause, making vtubers have absolutely absurd model restrictions (the irl tiddy girls are still there and kicking though), some streamers who simply received bits got banned because a glitch that your company caused, this very topic right here, and many other controversies...
What is WRONG with the workers over at Twitch Interactive? Like really.
Do all of their employees really look like the memes say? Everyone should have left this platform YEARS ago.

I understand there's a political theater right now that is chaotic. Transparency on social issues and understanding what your stance on these issues means for those affected is so important right now. Blanket labeling is just not it. Please understand and do the right thing.

In what world is somebody deviating from heteronormative ideas of gender or sexuality "political"? Is the act of existing as a marginalised identity that much of a threat to other people that we should be censored and labeled as explicit? This is a bare faced attempt to further silence massive groups of people on the basis of bigotry and prejudice.

I'm sorry, twitch, but people existing are not 'sensitive content'. Do better.