Twitch is trying to define controversy based on current right wing US political discourse. Trans rights (like all discussion of rights) is not controversal. Gun Control is not controversial if you are in UK for instant. Using US right wing policies as a guide for flagging topics is chilling.

The existence of queer people is a fact, not a "social issue" up for discussion. To insist that such people hide themselves or hide any discussion of their personal lives when heterosexual persons can speak freely is a damning double standard that should not exist.

What the duck twitch??? Are you out of your minds???

To quote the UN's Declaration on Human Rights - "Everyone is entitled to all the rights and freedoms set forth in this Declaration, without distinction of any kind, such as [...], sex, [...], political or other opinion, [...], birth or other status."(Art.II, https://www.un.org/en/about-us/universal-declaration-of-human-rights ).The whole of Article VII of Twitch's guidelines violates this document! Also, the US government legalised gay marriage some 20 years ago, why should it still be considered a political topic???

As a trans individual if I was to stream and I was open to questions about my identity or even talking about my day to day experiences I would have to tag my streams with something that will lesson my chances at gaining viewers. This set of rules is only going to lessen the ability of LGBTQIA+ streamers to make a living and gain fame through streaming. This is an antagonistic legislation without any reason because if someone does not like the stream they can just leave this helps no one

My existence is not a “sensitive social issue,” and I invite any representative from Twitch to say that to my face and see what happens.

How me just existing can be grouped with civil unrest and military conflict is just insane. This is not it Twitch.

In the US, sexual orientation is a protected class, and not an attribute that can be used to discriminate against an individual. By marking the very existence of queer content a "sensitive subject" is absolutely ridiculous and so clearly a company bending to the ideology of hateful bigots trying to behave as though equal rights for all is somehow a radical standpoint and not common sense and decency.
This change is unconscionable, vile, and discriminatory. If this is a change Twitch insists on standing by, I will not be using the platform and dissuading others from doing so.

I wonder who's next? Non-white people? Non-Christians? Non-males?
What's with the weirdness???
Being LGBTQIA+ is not a 'political opinion'. Get your [_expletive deleted by author_] together!

Labeling the human rights of a huge portion of people as a "sensitive" matter to be shoved back in the closet, is the same sort of cowardice your doormat of an Owner showed with his newspaper. The supreme court granted LGBTQ+ people the right to marry over 20+ years ago, why did your platform only take issue with them now? LGBTQ+ people exist and have always, and will always exist. Rules like this to pretend otherwise are delusional. Remove that final bullet point from article VII. Grow a backbone and demonstrate you care about human rights more than the comfort of fragile bigots.

Thank you.

My existence is NOT a "sensitive political issue", it's just who I am! If you're gonna label every LGBTQ streamer as "political", then, by your own inane logic, every Jewish streamer should be labelled as such, even if they have nothing to do with current political issues or the conflict in Palestine

I vote for removing the last two bullet points both.

Why should this type of legislation be explicitly singled out? Is discussion of other types of legislation suddenly not political? It's still legislation, this makes no sense.

It should not be "sensitive content" to discuss the freedom of people to exist as themselves. It should not be "sensitive content" to discuss the right for people to have bodily autonomy. The only reason this is "culturally sensitive" is that certain groups have been stoking the fires of hate in a culture war for their own political gain.

And where will the line be, anyway? Is a gay man talking about his own life experiences "discussing ideological views"? What about a trans woman talking about her day? What if it involves an experience with bigotry? Does it then become "discussing ideological views"? Who decides where that line is? Is there even a consistent line, or will it shift depending on who is handling the case?

The existence and lives of marginalized people should not be "sensitive content" that requires a warning label.

This depresses me so much. LGBT+ people aren't going away, no matter how much anyone tries. Please end this garbage and let people live their ******** lives.

By implementing this, it will drive away a large percentage of twitch content creators and viewers alike. This needs to be flagged.

From what I understand of it, the "sensitive social issues" clause is likely to cause harm to significant portions of the community and should be taken out.

Twitch staff have already proven themselves to be losers who will actively protect cam girls blatantly violating TOS while targeting VTubers for less, might as well out themselves as Trump supporters

I fully agree that LGBTQ+ content should not be classified as "sensitive social issues". This can only serve to censor LGBTQ+ activism and muffle the voices of queer people who use the platform. Please remove the line from Article VII that requires the sensitive content tag.
-Dr Matthias Jansen

My existence is not a sensitive social issue that needs to be flagged.

Look the situation is very straight forward, anti-queers want to make it illegal for queer people to exist by enacting laws that make it hard for them to be open.

Queer people, not wanting their lives to be ruined tell them not to do that.

Anti-queers then claim "being queer is a political issue" and that Twitch should keep politics out of the platform.

Twitch is literally siding with people that are turning the rights to live openly and be alive of queer people into a political issue then saying it should be removed for being a political issue.

There's nothing more evil than a platform claiming to talk about pride siding with people who turn the lives of their users into bargaining chips for political power and online clout

Do transgender creators have to be permanently marked regardless of what they’re talking about? Unacceptable censorship of people who just want to live their lives.