+1 to the issues brought up here already. Adding an enforceable label that covers identities that are needlessly politicized is not okay and takes away from those who are simply existing. Please remove or at least reword this label.

Hi my existence as a non-binary person, as well as every other gender-queer person on Twitch, is not political, nor does it count as a "sensitive social issue." This new clause would be very damaging to the LGBTQIA+ community on Twitch, please reconsider.

There's been a lot of mistakes you guys have made and this is by far the most egregious. Fix this.

With all due respect, twitch. If you really want to fail as bad as twitter/X is, by all means. You'll just get what you deserve if you push through with this

i will refuse to tag my streams because i exist as queer, and everyone else should too ✌

Since when is simply *existing* a sensitive social issue worthy of being taken down for?

My existence is not political.

Grow up and get real, Twitch.
This is embarrassing for you. How can you call yourselves adults when you have such a stupid position that kowtows to how bigots define the targets of their bigotry?

Every person involved in deciding the existence and wording of this bullet point should come forward, give their name, and apologise for being so weak and pathetic.

Fix this mistake, Twitch, and pledge to do better in future.

It's a bizarre stance to say that human rights are explicit content

simply existing is not a "sensitive social issue", if gender/sexuality is somehow sensitive does that mean that all the cishet streamers and games featuring cishet content & relationships have to be tagged too? because if not then it's discriminatory and will be abused. this isn't protecting people, this enables targeting of individuals & communities.

Agreed.

Twitch is a place to express yourself free... except if you're LGBTQ+, non-American, female, non-Christian, etc... My existence does not need a label!!

Yeah, we need to be able to talk about our own identities and experiences openly. I don't like the chilling effect that such content labels would have.

This change is completely inane, the current reading would force any non-white, non-straight, non-cis person to label themselves, and reduce traffic to their channel, purely on the chance they talk about themselves and their life as BIPOC and/or LGBTQIA+ because bad actors who view such matters as "political" would abuse such a system and report mislabelled streams in hope for action to take place and force us off the platform.

This isn't something to "allow viewers to make more informed choices", this is something that will harm minorities on the platform instead.

We're not political for existing, no matter how much others may want us to be so they can debate away our human rights.

This is only going to result in the weaponization of reports against marginalised individuals with "political" identities. Please remove this, or stop pretending to support marginalised people.

Was any member of the LGBTQ+ community even consulted on this policy decision? This does not seem like a good policy informed by that kind of consultation. I would advise reversing course on this Twitch.

Considering there is an entire political party in the US whose opinion is that basically everyone who isn't "like them" (CIS-Het White and "Pro-Birth pretending to be Pro-Life") merely existing is enough to be radically political in nature, the last two parts of Section VII on the CCL should be removed, as well as the bit about "civil rights" being a sensitive social issue.
If Twitch doesn't change this, expect everyone using any kind of tag on their channel that suggests they support people of color, trans individuals, the LGBTQ+ community as a whole, etc., to get mass reported by these red-hatted monsters, and their ilk the world over, the second they can, because again, they see the mere existence of those peoples as an extreme political thing.

No one needs a label simply to exist.

When I saw this rule, my immediate response was "Oh, Elon's targeting LGBTQ+ people again" - then I saw it was twitch, and not twitter.

Simply living as an LGBTQ+ individual, a disabled person, an indigenous person, a person of colour or a woman is not inherently political. Forcing users to label themselves as political simply because they are part of a group of people like this under threat of demonitization is a directly discriminatory practice and beyond that leaves the Twitch reporting tools open for mass abuse from right wing trolls

Twitch please review and clarify this rule, if it’s meant to uplift marginalized groups, then that needs to be clear. As it stands, this new rule will be abused and needs to be changed, clarified or removed entirely