Grouping LGBTQ+ people (and others) in with protest and political coverage is disgusting, something only someone who isn't LGBTQ+ would think is a good idea. I can exist without being up front that I am a liberal, but being queer is an core part of who I am. The same is true of being a woman, being an immigrant, being anything. "Twitch is for everyone" the article says, but I'm left to assume that doesn't include me.

If the implications are that only the factory settings descendants of Europeans can exist exist on twitch without being explicitly labeled as political, then the trust and safety team at twitch surely have know working knowledge of the world. This policy seems to seek to actually label people in the way people have joked: "That you are either straight or political, white or political, cis or political, a man or political" and quite frankly, if the people at trust and safety don't comprehend the issue with this while coating their ignorant policies in the landlord's rainbow paint job, then serios problems await them next time Chick-fil-A runs out of chicken nuggets and they are forced to understand the fast food worker explaining basic concepts of reality to them.

I can wax poetic (or more apt. wax sarcastic) all I want, but the core idea needing conveyance is simple: this policy is ignorant and damaging.

This is blatant segregation of a group of people and their existence. Please hire a DEI manager.

Everything about my existence has been made political beyond my will. It should not continue into my life as a streamer.

My existence, my experience, and my life do not require a content label. Shame on you.

My existence as a trans person is not political and to suggest it is is a huge step in the wrong direction.

This is ridiculous, we should be allowed to discuss our lives and journey with our audiences.

This policy is a huge backwards step for Twitch and those that stream on the platform. The vague wording politicizes the existence of LGBTQ+ individuals and immigrants while creating yet another target on the backs of creators that fit into those groups. If Twitch actually wants to be a place to express themselves, the platform needs to work to protect and elevate streamers and their communities rather than giving bad actors another tool to abuse.

Queerness is not political, and the silencing of trans voices just serves to further historic injustices and harms. I hope Twitch will listen to the trans community when we say that this will cause real harm, because it will, and we should not in the first place have to be the ones to say "Hey, this will harm us". It will cause real harm, and Twitch must fix this

I should be able to talk about my lived experience without a special label to protect the feelings of someone who's so sheltered that anything that isn't exactly like them is scary and confusing. ***** those people and ***** this policy.

this is a roundabout way to further segregate already-marginalized people. and you're just giving a hit list to people who would use this info in a dangerous/violent/harmful way.

It's a bad idea to give ammunition of this sort to the numerous bad actors who would weaponize it against queer and trans creators.

My existence should not require a label on Twitch. If I say that I'm married, it shouldn't then become an issue of whether i tag my stream or not. This is part of why I haven't been streaming, as even existing LGBTQ+ tags will get harassment.

Having to watch what we say because we're living just the same as anyone else is what's political, let us be ourselves.

My existence isn't up for any debate, Twitch, and the only effects this policy will have is burying or destroying LGBTQ streamers/content and giving 'phobes something to weaponize with and in their harassment campaigns.

This is SO easy to abuse and mislabel.

It's not a political stream if I say "Trans Rights!" but I'm playing Terraria for the entire thing. But that doesn't matter at all, according to this, that, for some reason, does.

This can and WILL be abused if Twitch doesn't fix it ASAP. And considering how a lot of their huge creators are LGBTQ+, this will cause issues.

This is nothing short of discrimination against LGBTQ+ identifying persons and other marginalized groups, and will completely be used to enable bad actors to target those specific groups--EVEN MORE THAN THEY ALREADY DO--just by virtue of existing on your platform regardless of if anything actually political is being discussed.

I'm certain none of the LGBTQ+, BIPOC, disabled, and other marginalized people who currently use Twitch, myself included, appreciate being forced to be a "political streamer" just by identifying a certain way. All this does is make an already big target on our communities even bigger against our will. Chasing a large percentage of your user base off your site is a waste of resources, and isn't the flex you think it is.

My existence isn't up for debate, Twitch, and the only effect this policy will have is burying LGBTQ streamers and giving homophobes something to weaponize in their harassment campaigns.

Hey, are you out of your ******* minds?

Twitch, would you require black people to have to classify their stream as sensitive social issues because people make a fuss of people of colour?

No, and doing so for LGBTQ+ only alienates and makes it easier to harass them because their existence is considered troubling to a small amount of people.

To be fair, I get it. I know that the intended point of the clause is about providing a warning label for streams focused on legislative action. (I'm tired of getting political hitpiece ads on YouTube, myself.) That's not how the trolls and hate raiders are going to use it, and we have no guarantee that's how the moderation team is going to interpret it. Even if you do give us closure that the moderation team won't miswield this clause, how are we supposed to believe that when you guys are constantly banning VTubers under false pretenses like bits fraud? This change CAN and WILL result in banning queer creators for simply existing.