Moves like this from Twitch are why I stopped streaming on the platform despite the fact I was actually starting to make money and get somewhere. I will never support a business with such paper thin moral fibre. To see such little loyalty whatsoever to the content creators without which Twitch wouldn't even have a platform is beyond dissapointing it's frankly impressive in its stupidity.

how am i a sensitive social issue if i accept and like others? f u twitch.

I am a human being not "politics". The fact that we are being forced to defend our existence in the context of politics is hard enough. we don't need yet another arena where we have to justify our right to exist socially as well.

Disgusting choice. Factors of people's existences are not "sensitive" social issues. Revert back this entire rules change.

To help with clarity, twitch could adopt a simple set of symbols to identify which "social issue" someone is being branded as. Conveniently they wouldn't even need to design new ones, they could just go with the traditional: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_concentration_camp_badge

Twitch I hope you start to realize soon that a large portion of people that use this platform are lgbt or ally’s of the lgbt and that this is stupid as ****.

Our existences is not political. To imply as such is ridiculous. It would be like marking a stream for being a sensitive subject merely for the color of their skin. Change this now or else you'll lose even more creators to YouTube than you already have.

Well, time to cancel my subs if Twitch is going the 4chan/twitter route.

We're human beings, not a controversy.

Hey, twitch, could you demonstrate literally *any* backbone and stop with garbage like this please?

People existing is not a "sensitive topic".
People who make a fuss about minorities existing should be banned, not pandered to.

Twitch just casually forcing the pink triangle into its policies. Feels genuinely horrible. LGBTQ+ people's existence is not up to debate and if someone thinks it is, their "opinion" should just be labeled as hate speech

I’m not a sensitive social issue, I’m a human being

My life is not a "sensitive topic".

This is a very obviously an attempt to define "red lines" to make it easier to suppress/harass LGBTQ+ individuals. Highlighting us has historically always caused issues, we just want to exist and not be hunted. Painting digital targets on our backs only serves to make it easier for those who hunt us. It also functionally dilutes genuine LGBTQ+ political discussion by making our daily lives have the same weight as genuine political discourse. This also has the effect of alienating those more willing to discuss personal lives/experiences (potentially regardless of LGBTQ+ references) in a way that might not be intended by those who drafted this rule, but will certainly be used by those who enforce it.

TL;DR
Forcing "political" labels onto people WILL cause genuine harm to people especially when done publicly.

Generally this rule should focus on being the "Maybe let's not stream active police/military issues." Rules that most public media companies abide by to avoid making any potentially tense or life threatening situations worse by presenting information, whether or not true, that may negatively impact the outcome. Leave it at that twitch.

My identity is not a political issue

My identity is not a political issue, you refusing to acknowledge it, is.

This rule would be used to harass and silence people who just want to be able to talk about themselves.

They are disgusting

LGBTQIA+ individuals simply existing and talking about themselves is not and should not ever be considered political or sensitive or problematic. Instead of catering to those who would use someone else’s way of life as a weapon for attacks, how about we punish those who put down others instead, and build up those who are confident enough to talk about and discuss who they are?