Me being trans is NOT the same as playing a violent game or swearing excessively. It's not the same as making lewd jokes.

I can't change that I'm trans. That is not a choice. But I can absolutely choose what games I play, what language I use and what kind of jokes I make.
Do not put content warnings on things that are outside of people's control. What's next, putting a content warning on any discussion involving race?

Remove the final bullet point from Article VII.

By 'sensitive social issues' you mean people whos existence angers bigots, how's about you tell the bigots to fluff off and find something useful to do with their time.

Categorizing anything as a "sensitive social issue" is impossible because it's completely subjective! Everything is a sensitive topic to SOMEONE and censoring the topic entirely is not the answer.

There is nothing political about being your own person. No one is being political by being gay, nonbinary, trans or what have you. No one is being political by allowing themselves to be themselves. This ruling is assinine and whoever agreed to it needs to see that. Being who you are isn't a crime, it's not alienation, it's not an agenda. It should not be treated as such.

To be especially clear about the problem: this rule will be used exclusively and only as a tool to harass queer people. It has no legitimate purpose; the existence of queer people does not pose a real credible threat to the bigots who are uncomfortable hearing about us. "Gay panic" has ceased being a legitimate legal defense and instead an elevating factor turning otherwise normal assault charges into a hate crime. These rules cater towards hate crime as an institutional part of twitch.

This needs to be removed. It does not benefit those who are streaming/commenting with correct morals and values whats-so-ever, and does almost nothing to enhance the protection against the LGBTQ+ community.

It is no secret that being a bigot and homophobic is wrong. And rules and regulations on the overall theme of queerness versus singling out those who spread hate is not rocket science. So in what universe is this the solution?

We all know censoring "sensitive social issues" is a direct correlation to being a coward or a bigot, so which one is it, twitch?

This is completely out of the control of streamers, and besides, it treats entire groups of people as "controversial". It's disgusting.

My existence does not require a content warning.

How long before this extends back to something like skin colour, and any POC people are automatically "sensitive social issues" for their appearance, or because they said they're black or something? Because this is pretty much going that same route. Skin colour used to be a "sensitive social issue," and some people still never grew up about that either. You're only a few steps away from going that route with this idea. This is literally just queer segregation under a "safe" name.

Sensitive social issues is an overly broad term which leads to a whole bunch of problems. What if a streamer is telling their mods to ban someone spamming slurs in chat? That is discussing a “sensitive social topic” but would lead for the ability for trolls to just be awful in peoples chat in order to sabotage their discoverability. Incredibly shortsighted and disrespectful to the diverse caste of creators that twitch claims to support

This is a measure to further alienate queer people of all walks of life under the guise of sensitivity.

we are no "sensitive social issue". we exist. deal with it. and the purpose of this classification is disgusting.

This is not feasible for a content creator to use. Especially the last two points that should not be a political or sensitive issue. It is an everyday issue that affects so many people.

So there are only 2 sexualities? "Straight" and "controversial"? Just existing as some who isn't straight is controversial now.

I worry that by classifying discussions of LGBTQ+ topics as "sensitive social issues" that it could have really harmful effects on LGBTQ+ streamers. Would a mention of something funny that happened when picking up HRT meds be classified as a sensitive social issue? Someone talking about their two moms? A man's husband coming over to bring him a snack or give him a quick peck on the cheek? These are simply aspects of people's lives, and classifying them as content that needs to be labeled and differentiated is demeaning.

LGBTQ+ people should not be forced to justify their existence or be lumped in with "explicit content". This should not be a controversial stance in 2024.

You are essentially labeling LGBTQ+ people as being controversial by existing. Removing this label entirely is the best solution, and perhaps you should instead brainstorm a label specifically geared toward discussion of politics by defining it as discussing news articles that reference bills, politicians, etc. It is possible to ask that politically geared streams label themselves without dehumanizing people.

This section must be removed. Many content creators themselves fall into one of the categories of people this policy labels “controversial” and it is obscene and dehumanizing to require them to accept this framing simply to exist. It’s very nearly as bad to require everyone else to consider other people as “controversial”. You must not enable this sort of bigotry.

Even with intermittent mentions being allowed without a tag (presumably), it's really not the sort of thing a content creator can reliably control, especially so when there's hundreds or even thousands of people present. Moreover, the tag is simply misleading due to how vague it is and what other things are included in it. As a trans woman, if I stream on Twitch and talk about my experiences for some arbitrary percentage of time that I can't even begin to evaluate, or if viewers begin to talk about it, I'll be told that I'm being political.

At the very, very, very, VERY least, it should not be grouped with national security matters and riots - that's far from what the mentioned "sensitive social issues" are, and it's absurd that they even share a tag right now. But the real right thing to do would be to leave the people that are just talking about their lives alone, and remove that bullet point entirely.

being LGBTQ+ shouldn't be censored nor treated like streaming war coverage