Letting this point stay on is going to enable sooooo much mobbing on all LGBTQ+ creators. Like, in effect Twitch has ordered thousands of accounts be deleted.

I will neither apologise, nor bow for to those who think lesser of me for my existence. For a platform the size of Twitch, discriminatory changes such as this are the killing blow. There's a better approach out there, just gotta use that common sense in your noggins.

Please don't add a discriminatory label to our content and enable those who want to hurt us, we just want to exist ;-;

this is so cringe :3

maybe I should stream on YouTube instead

We are people not politician debate points, we are human not some taboo conversation and we shouldn’t be segregated because of who we are. The only people who think we are a sensitive topic or debate are the ones who don’t Believe we have the right to have it voices heard.

This bullet point does nothing to curb hateful conduct and only emboldens bad actors in the community. Hateful individuals will not be deterred by it, and the limited visibility applied to mature streams would only serve the punish the LGBT communities complying with the rule with limited visibility brought by the mature stream tag. This rule would genuinely endanger LGBT youth in conservative areas as an LGBT stream may genuinely be the only resource they have to learn about legislation that will negatively impact them. There is no reason to keep this bullet point except to appeal to a far right userbase that historically destroy social media platforms and drive away users and advertisers.

This is entirely outrageous. Twitch has always been a place for its creators and audience of the Lgbtq+ community to be, what's changing? In a span of a year you have upped Subscriptions to 7.99 and now you are saying that members of a community who have done nothing wrong to your platform by being on it are a sensitive topic. You are a multi-million corporation do you really feel so shaky when a streamer or a viewer comments about their Husband or Wife at home? DO better, Twitch.

Just, why twitch?

This bullet point needs to be removed immediately. My existence is not a sensitive social issue, it is my LIFE.

My friends should not have to be slapped with a content warning just for existing and trying to stream, this is so dumb

I'm a person, not a resource in a political campaign. My experiences are real and valid, and not political discourse.
If my existence as a trans person annoys someone they should work on their issues instead.
Trans rights are human rights.

I don't understand how twitch really thought this was OK to do

My existence is only, "political" to people who want to legislate away my existence.

painting someone like me as a, "sensitive issue" is only helping those who want us to be illegal because you're telling them, "Hey. We got that kind of person to need a special label just to exist. Soon we'll be rid of them entirely."

This very much looks like Twitch throwing it's LGBT+ userbase under the bus and it's especially worrying that you're doing it right before a major election where one party has loudly and repeatedly signaled that we're going to face either death or imprisonment.

Again: just for existing as queer. My identity is not political. The people trying to legislate us away are political.

Absolutely abhorrent that you would label us as political deviants simply because of who we are as people. The EU is going to have a field day with this one.

Being gay isn’t sensitive to people who believe in human rights.
Being trans isn’t sensitive to people who believe in human rights.

You reap what you sow, Twitch.

Twitch, don’t add the pink triangle label before you’re ordered to at the state’s gunpoint.

LGBTQ+ liberty is not a "sensitive social issue." The final bullet point in question can only be taken as oppression and I won't accept it.

This rule blatantly supports the idea that equal rights for lgbtq+ are a 'controversy,' and I can only assume Twitch carelessly implemented it without considering the consequences and implications of it.

This is pathetic and disgusting, nobody deserves to be treated like their very existence is abnormal or harmful to others, Twitch is literally encouraging the idea that the topic of equal rights for queer people is offensive.

The detrimental implications of this rule absolutely should not have to be explained to anyone above the age of 12. It's simply discrimination, it's ridiculous. We have a right to talk about lgbtq+ liberty without censoring ourselves.

The idea that lgbtq+ topics should be censored is on the same level of stupidity as thinking homosexuality is contagious. It's plain dumb.

And it bewilders me how Twitch thinks they can do this and get away with it, and act like it's justified.

Wanting equal rights isn't controversial, that's common sense. Stop silencing us, you know what you're doing, you can't take away our right to simply speak freely about equal ******* rights.

THANK you.

my existence is neither an ideology nor should it be political. be better, twitch.

This is the kind of censoring and overreach that sets a dangerous precedent and lays foundation for even more egregious legislation to form.

Education is elevation, and we need to foster more safety and protections for LGTQIA+ youth that does not create barriers against the sharing of helpful resources.

My fondest hopes that Twitch was merely ignorant in its implementation here, and that they did not truly intend to blame the victim of discrimination for being discriminated against.