To place something which should merely exist without debate behind an explicit content warning on Twitch is another link in the chain of pathologisation.

Platforms such as Twitch have a responsibility to safeguard not those who wish to take the freedoms of others away, but those under threat of losing those freedoms.

We are not political pawns, we are not divergent from the "norm". What is considered sociopolitically "normal" is, by proxy, also considered what is sociopolitically "correct". The experiences of women, of immigrants, of people of colour and of LGBTQIA+, by the inclusion of the final point of Article VII, are being deemed by Twitch as abnormal.

This drives home a very frightening but very real position that white, patriarchal heteronormative content is reflective of what exists beyond the scope of this platform. This is simply not true.

We deserve the right to exist without our bodies nor our experiences being politicised, which only invites harm. Our bodies and experiences are not a battleground.

A person's existence and characteristics is not and should never be accepted as "sensitive social issues". Twitch better remove this clause, as it is aiding no one else than bigots that push for minorities to be hidden away and for other marginalized people to be quiet, and that's when at best behavior.

I'm not a "sensitive social issues" and, by law in my country, this can be interpreted as targeted discrimination.

This is disgusting, trans lives are not political

Please don't do this Twitch, LGBTQIA+ people like me need your help as minorities. The number one factor behind trans suicides is lack of societal acceptance and failing to see where we can ever fit in.

From the Trevor hotline, a suicide prevention hotline I've had to use myself for support, countless times:

"Facts About Suicide Among LGBTQ+ Young People
LGBTQ+ young people are not inherently prone to suicide risk because of their sexual orientation or gender identity but rather placed at higher risk **because of how they are mistreated and stigmatized in society**

https://www.thetrevorproject.org/resources/article/facts-about-lgbtq-youth-suicide/

Your policy is exactly contributing to people like me feeling hopeless and discriminated against for simply existing. Please at least remove this policy and ideally add *more* protection instead of eroding the rights of your LGBTQIA+ community members

When a site that was criticized a while ago for not imposing enough rules on its users suddenly wants to censor words and, under these words, equates rights for people who deviate from "normal people" with acts of war, you know that this site needs a good slap in the face.

There's nothing controversial or sensitive about the rights of LGBTQ+ people, immigrants and access to reproductive care. These are protected characteristics by law in most jurisdictions and people should be free to discuss them at liberty without the threat of censorship. A reductive and insulting move by Twitch.

The idea that human lives and experiences are "political" or a "sensitive social issue" is fundamentally discriminatory and dehumanizing. As the largest streaming platform, Twitch is expected to abide by a higher standard than this foolishness.

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It is a political issue in the broad scope of world cultures and politics, but it still is morally wrong!

If this blatant stupidity on Twitch's end isn't corrected, Twitch needs to say it with their full chest and stand fully behind what they intend to say with this. Might as well make the flagging for LGBTQIA+ people and issues on the platform into a pink triangle like a certain country did back in the 1930's/40's....

It starts with this kind of censorship/persecution/labeling, and the next thing you know we're hiding in the attic fighting for our continued ability to just live, like Anne Frank...

**** like this helps perpetuates the thought that anything LGBTQIA+ is bad, and it needs to go. This is only a "sensitive" topic for those that seek to quite literally try to erase mine and other LGBTQIA+ people's existance, and you seem all too happy and willing to capitulate to them.

Twitch, do better....

It’s the old chestnut. Do better, Twitch.

there are already tons of comments from LGBT+ streamers - as someone who’s cis and straight, all i can do is add to their voices: queer lives aren’t “political” and if you think they are, you deserve ridicule.

twitch has made a fundamental mistake, and needs to fix it NOW.

It is hateful and homophobic to prevent LGBTQ+ people from talking about their lives and their right to exist, and this "sensitive social issues" point has clear and obvious ways of being used to abuse LGBTQ+ streamers and viewers. Remove it!

I’m not a political issue, I’m a human ^.^

People existing as they are isn't a sensitive social issue, grow a spine please.

To simply exist is not a "sensitive social issue."

Someone doing a stream where they bring up their lived experience isn't political. You're in the wrong on this, Twitch

I'm a trans woman and I don't see why I'm a sensitive social issue. Like everyone else, I just want to live my life the way I want to do it. Some groups would like that I disappear and by having this requirement and bullet point and implying that my existence is controversial, you're helping to make it happen.

Will the icon marking "sensitive issues" be a pink triangle?