Last time I checked me being alive wasnt a war crime

I'm not here to make grifters and far right trolls comfortable. If my existence causes them problems, good. Remove this stupid label that would only lead to further harassment of already marginalized groups

Catering to bigots isn't the way to do it, Twitch, our existence isn't political. This only helps bigots be bigots, as a trans woman, this stuff is terrible.

Oh, I'm sorry twitch, I'm sorry that we are just trying to live our lives and some people get their feelings hurt when we talk about our daily struggle.

This is ridiculous, this isn't a "sensitive topic", it's not our fault that many of us have their existence at risk because of horrible people being in positions of power.

And besides, we both know that this will only apply to minorities, I bet you won't do anything about the many racists, homophobes, or other bigoted people who frequently stream and talk nonsense in your platform, as always.

That last bulletin point does nothing but give hate raiders even more power than they should have, it needs to be removed entirely or at the very least made extremely clear that it does not need to be applied simply for the streamer existing as BIPOC or LGBTQ+ and thus is not a reportable offense for not being labelled.

Let's not go backwards to 2000's era social division, please. It's 2024. LGBTQ+ and colored people exist, have existed, and will always continue to exist, and no amount of hiding them behind content categories will change that.

This change is completely unnecessary and a waste of your limited resources.

this will be used by bad actors to attack all lgbtq ppl to be permabanned, meanwhile asmon got a simple 2 week ban for calling my race inferior AND HE DID IT AGAIN THE DAY HE CAME BACK, but you will ban ppl like me for saying i should be allowed to be bi and polly or to not kill kids, we see whos side your on twitch, stop it be better stop punishing ppl for wanting to live

Agreed, get rid of it! Its so clearly targeted at suppressing queer voices.

You dont get our money and get to silence us Twitch. You get one or the other.

Adding identity and sexual orientation in this list is incredibly worrying and twitch needs to do better.

my existence is not political. my existence is not a sensitive topic.

I dunno, you could tattoo "sensitive social issues" on my arm since I'm visibly trans, but I think that might reflect a sensitive social issue of the past. What to do, what to do.

This is a really easy way for people who happen to not be straight cis male passing to be harassed by bad actors.

Being part of a marginalized group is not a "Sensitive Social issue"

Everyone here has said all I really want to say to be honest

I am not a political streamer and me talking about living my life in a world that is increasingly hostile to my existence is not political. Also, what's "intermittent"?

Last night I discussed a range of subjects, and at one point, we talked about gender identity because it stemmed from a discussion of ADHD which started because I was talking about how my mental health can affect my ability to play games or even my desire to play them. I didn't set out for such "sensitive" subject matter it just happened and it lasted maybe 5 minutes. Would that mean I need to retroactively label my stream or update my labels midstream for 5 minutes? Can I even do that with OBS running? The rest of the night I talked about random things like what food I was going to eat or my excitement to play a new game. Is my entire stream now "sensitive subject matter"?

I don't have the foresight to know when or if my streams might touch on topics you say now are "sensitive." For me they aren't political discussions anymore than when I talk about putting in my grocery order for the week or what cute thing my pets did. They're me talking about my life and the fact that how I live it is under constant threat. I'm literally just talking about myself. I am being politicized by bad actors against my will and you are capitulating to their demands with rules like these that are (intentionally or unintentionally) aimed at shutting down any discussion regarding people who live outside of a very narrow definition of "normal" that has been determined by a small population of bigots.

This would make an already abusive automated system even worse for a fraction of the Twitch ecosystem.

There is already bigotry in the form of hate raids on people like me and many others. All this would do is throw LGBTQ+ people further under the bus and push us away from the platform all together.

My existence and lived experiences are not political, stop trying to make it such and stop giving bad actors more fuel to hurt us.

Opting to label people who exist in the LGBTQIA+ community as "political" will damage our ability to create. Period. Twitch, you will lose countless creators, the people who make your platform tick, with this.
By including us in the clause, you created a social issue. Look inward.

People existing shouldn't be political get out of here with that 50's era junk

Everyone has already said anything I could say already. But I want to reiterate that this will be used to harass marginalized people and I do not want to see that happen. Please remove that point from Article VII.

This will be used by bigots to harass members of the LGBTQ+ community. Don't do this as this will not only harm your site but hurt innocent people

Issues about human rights to live and bodaly autonamy shouldn't be considered as "sensetive topics". they should be talked about openly so more people can actually see the issues we're facing instead of having yet another cheap excuse to ignore violations of human rights

Even if read strictly by the letter, this new policy permits individuals to report queer Twitch streamers for the mere discussion of their legally protected traits (e.g. homosexuality, transgender identity) without a content label. This does not just imply, but outright states that someone's identity as anything other than cisgender and heterosexual is an abnormal quality that requires content warnings. Remove this point now, it is rife for abuse and it is genuinely disgusting that we even have to explain this to you.