The LGBTQ+ community is already marginalized and has to deal with far more harrassment than anyone should. This change will only validate that harrassment, while also tacitly agreeing with the kinds of bad actors who immediately label anything about the LGBTQ community to be "political."

This is a bad policy and, if it was not made with malicious intent, is deeply misguided.

As many have stated before this rule will be used by bigots to harrass members of the LGBTQ+ community. Please reconsider.

To put discussions of social topics on the same level as Sexual Themes, Drugs, Intoxication, Gambling, Violence, and Graphic Depictions is a level of ridiculousness I can barely articulate.

My discussion of basic human decency and rights should not need to be flagged. These are not things that should be part of a system that effectively works to censor others.

Flags should be used for content which can genuinely be upsetting to people to ACTUALLY SEE - such as gambling, drugs, sexual themes, violence, drugs, etc. A discussion of politics does not rise to the same level, and trying to treat it as such will only do more harm as you try to determine what fits into this box, as NOTHING fits into that box neatly and trying to do so will only frame it even more into a "polarizing manner".

My right to exist is not politics or "sensitive social issues" - it's my every day life, and I should not have to flag my streams just for my existence and discussion of my every day life which you've deemed to be a "sensitive social issue".

Immigration, LGBTQ+ related issues, aren't "sensitive issues", they are issues about people's lives and basic human rights. It is not a "sensitive issue" to talk about how me and my friends deserve to be alive and healthy.

Our want to be happy with who we are as people is not political. A person's want to be comfortable with themselves should not be considered "sensitive and political". End of point.

This opens the floodgates to selectively and precisely eliminate anyone not a heteronormative cisgendered white male from the platform for any and no reason at all.

Tell me,WHO at Twitch thought that this was a good idea? Whoever they are,they should be fired immediately,and blacklisted from the industry. This bullet point needs to be removed and never again revisited. People are people,not political strawmen.

And the best way to make sensitive social issues non-sensitive is exposure and discourse. Many communities exist which permit the discussion of these topics,provided they remain civil.

Remove the bullet point. Never return to it. Treat people like people,and never give weapons such as this to the hateful crowd ever again. Instead of trying to become thought police,instead start enforcing civility.

This ridiculously labelling is going to result in marginalised people being targeted with bogus reports by hateful people. It is absolutely dangerous and needs to be removed.

This bullet point is going to be weaponized to harass LGBTQ streamers, please remove it now.

The rule as it stands right now will be abused by bad actors and most likely increase how much LGBTQIA+ streamers are harrased by bigots.

Honestly ridiculous and dangerous to require these topics to be labelled in this way.

LGBTQ+ people, individually and as a whole, should not be labeled as political. Labeling them as such makes it far too easy to throw them deeper into the pit the people in power already put them in. The same is true for immigrants and reproductive rights.
I don’t know which investors or higher ups demanded this bullet point be put it but it needs to be removed immediately. This is a ridiculous power play designed to stamp down those the powerful deem as ‘undesirables’. It doesn’t belong anywhere, let alone on Twitch.

I know that we're reacting as if Twitch said, "there's normal and then there's political." And that would be because Twitch is saying there's normal and then there's political.

This is a poorly thought out policy that will continue to allow for the weaponization of moderation tools against marginalized identities. It must be removed.

This is a very tone deaf and horrid clause to add to this site. So many streamers, so many viewers, are lgbt, immigrants, and have dealt with this issues. We are not political pawns, we are people. With lives and experiences.

You can't profit and promote us when it's convenient for you then toss us under the bus at any given moment later. This policy will just be throwing us all to the side and shows how little you care when we're given death threats, massive spam reports, and other such things for just being ourselves.

We should not have to label our existences as political just to make some people with inflated egos and little morals pleased.

As a queer man, with trans and non binary loved ones, our mere existence is not political.

For those that are not a part of LGBT+, this will seem like a bunch of people getting all up in arms for labels and identity politics. All these names and labels being added, and the pronouns and it’s all confusing, they’re must be overreacting!

I know because this was the environment I grew up in too. In order to combat change and their own personal fears, people in places of power in my environment would use hyperbole and twist facts. All this to keep people in line with their beliefs.

The truth of the matter is that LGBT+ people exist, and they are not crazed lunatics or people driven by mental issues. These are real people wanting to live their lives comfortably.

The problem is, those environments I described earlier? They aren’t just in small pockets of communities. They’re everywhere, even in government! And some of those environments want to see people who identify as LGBT+ persecuted, lose their jobs, become homeless, suffer for trying to live their lives as themselves.

There is no hidden cabal of LGBT+ people trying to indoctrinate others, there’s no global conspiracy. It’s just strawmen all invented to keep your thinking aligned. This becomes an issue of empathy, being kind to people that are not like you.

At the end of the day, realize that the most important thing you can do is show kindness. LGBT+ people have been fighting to not be discriminated; not to be shamed for who they are.

Show some kindness, and move towards a better, happier world.

Being LGBTQ+ is not political or a sensitive social issue, and saying otherwise is just an excuse to discriminate and hate.

Our existence is not a "sensitive social issue," you ******* troglodytes. Sounds to me like you're the sensitive ones for wanting to sweep us under the rug rather than look us in the eye.

I'm a queer trans woman. My existence, nor the existence of my queer siblings, is political.

Don't you just love rainbow capitalism? /s Twitch pretends to support LGBTQ+ people during June, but then after that they do this nonsense. My existence isn't political. None of our existences are. If this is an attempt at "bOtH sIdEs" nonsense, it's not even close to that. This is going to make so many streamers, large and small, face discrimination simply for being born. It starts with things like this, then the trolls come in en masse and abuse all of it to harass people, then more people start dehumanizing us. We exist. Cope harder. This is just censorship at this point.

Im a genderfluid/non binary streamer. My existence, and the existence of others in the lgbtq+ community, is not political. Immigration and reproductive rights are not political. I've known people with lgbt+ tags who have gotten hate raided purely because of their identity/sexuality. You want to profit off of us and celebrate us when it's convenient for you, but the moment actual support for our existence is needed, you'd rather turn towards the bigots who want to make sure we don't exist purely because they're lining your pockets.