labeling LGBTQ streamers as "political" is a complete joke and a horrible attempt at trying to "both sides" your way out of supporting streamers who get harassed due to their mere existence

The existence of people within the LGBTQ+ community is not a political issue. This is extremely reprehensible language for such a platform to use.

Twitch, do better.

As a Trans girl, this actively deters me from streaming or engaging on this platform. Simply because of who I am.

My existence is not a political issue. Fix this.

This is an incredibly bad take Twitch. People discussing their lives or existing on the internet is not a "sensitive political issue" and forcing users to tag their streams as such is just inviting harassment and trolls coming in to "debate" them.

Please remove this bullet point from Article VII. It is ill thought out and will only lead to further problems and a loss of users.

Yeah I will not use twitch anymore if this gets implemented. Absolutely not worth it.

My existence and right to life are not a political issue, and I am allowed to discuss the people trying to take those things away from me. You are insane if you think "you have to flag your stream to say Trans Rights" is going to fly. We already struggle to feel safe on this platform and throwing us under the bus to please advertisers sets a horrible precedent.

twitch just why

Remove this bullet point, whoever thought of this policy clearly doesn't know what they're talking about.

These guidelines are garbage. Get the **** out with this.

LGBTQIA+ people are not political issues just for existing. This is blatant censorship of Queer voices.

Twitch needs to stop with all this stupid ******** about making literal people's lives inherently political. I just wanna be able to live and exist without having to explain and justify my existence to ****** people who won't get it either from lack of knowledge or refusal to accept new knowledge or lack of taking accountability. I shouldn't have to be forced to hide just by being different and forced to actively label myself to everyone just so they can fight over what my label says.

Twitch you really don't want this fight. Course correct now. End of discussion

I find it completely unacceptable that you think this is a good idea. I am a trans woman, and my life is not a political issue. My life is my own personal existance. By denying my right to freely share that with policies such as this one, you propegate further discrimination in the world against queer folks like myself.

It is truly disappointing that no one spoke out against this, and if they did, it wasn't taken into account. My life is not someone's political pawn, someone's "sensitive topic." It is who I am.

This bullet point needs to be removed from Article VII immediately.

This is insane. This absolutely is twitch taking the side of bigots. Calling people's mere existence controversial social ideology. If someone says their gender or the gender of their partner, that shouldn't be considered an ideology, just a fact. This is like calling round earth a sensitive social issue. Completely disgusting, and for all the LGBT community does for twitch they should be ******* ashamed to even be associated with this wording.

Under these rules, we can't even say "Trans Rights!" anymore without touching on ~*~sensitive political issues~*~. This is absurd.

********, Twitch. My existence is not political.

My identity is NOT political. Politicised by hate mongers, queerphobes and ableist people, yes, but not inherently political.

If being queer is political, then being cishet must be too - I guess everyone has to use the label in that case! /sarcasm

I am disgusted by Twitch yet not at all surprised, and to drop this in Transgender Awareness Month too? H*ll no. I’m not bowing to this hateful form of censorship.

They need to rethink this label ASAP.

If Twitch really wants to start an issue that'll cause the UN to slam down onto them, they are gonna get their **** wrecked hard. They're a corporation, not a political platform. They can have ****** opinions, just keep them to themselves. This is Twitch, not ******* Kick ffs!

Trans people are not "explicit content", we are people.

This particular content classification label is explicitly going to be used to hide and demonetize those affected by it.

In insisting such a label be applied to any Queer streamer and/or community that talks about being Queer and/or issues affecting said community, what Twitch is functionally doing is enforcing further marginalisation and censorship of Queer users.
And that is without even acknowledging how such a system directly promotes hateful bigotry.
Any determined user or group could easily decide to go on a hunt for Queer streamers that might dare to talk about their experiences or lives, and they would have Twitch's approval to report these streamers and have punitive sanctions applied to them.
(On the face of it, Twitch's acknowledgement of "hate raids" goes directly against what they are doing here.
They are aware there is an issue with hateful bigotry on the site, they are aware that hate-driven reporting occurs, & they are aware that moderation has tended to demonstrate biases in enforcement; claiming ignorance is no longer a valid excuse for the very obvious consequences of this new policy.)

And the above is simply focused on a particular marginalised demographic.
Anyone with any sense - never mind anyone directly impacted - could present a half-dozen examples off the top of their head of how this policy is going to punish any already-marginalised person for speaking out about being marginalised.

Particularly insidious is how this could stifle criticism of Twitch itself.
Would discussion of this very policy be prohibited under said policy?
Would drawing analogies to systems like Section 28 be prohibited, due to how such a censorious system is a direct and obvious parallel to historical bigotry and political oppression?

Twitch still has the opportunity to realise their error(s) and back down.
If the policy remains as it is, Twitch would be choosing to demonstrate a very unflattering - and potentially unlawful - stance towards multiple marginalised demographics that use their site, & from whom they derive profit.