Lgbtq identidy is not sensitive, it's not political, it's just the way people live. I can't help being queer, I can't just drop it and be straight for people's comfort. Policing my orientation and gender like this is the definition of discrimination

Wow, putting our regular life, of us just existing as women and queer people and sometimes talking about it, sometimes the horrors of our existence as a "special category" so we can be neatly hidden away and neatly filtered out and further marginalized. The tag has been heavily used for harassment before. Filtering out anything that is not a what conservatives propogate in their politics as the correct way to life is a bold "apolitical" move twitch. Holy ****. Imagine any other social media tried marking people as a marginalized group or women as long as they want to talk what their life is like sometimes like holy ****.

you guys have a fundamental misunderstanding of the world. take extra care come tax time

This bullet should be removed. It is ostracizing communities of your streamers, simply because of who they are or where they came from.

the existence of a group of people and their rights to exist should not be considered a "sensitive topic". race, gender, sexuality, and religion are all protected under anti-discrimination laws, their rights to exist are not "sensitive", they're basic human rights.

There are plenty of queer folks who do not want to announce themselves as queers to everyone they interact with. Personal safety, social rejection and stigma are some of the obvious reasons why mandatory labelling is a bad idea. In fact, forcing people to broadcast their queerness openly is what makes their lives become more political. Ironic, isn't it?

This does not, however, only impact the usually silent part of the community. Mandatory labels, especially those that are considered to be signs of perversion by many, can only serve to harm the marginalised groups even more. Consider a world where everyone must wear a badge wit their IQ on it. Have fun being below the average and having to constantly withstand insults and being belittled. Good luck securing any jobs or other positions via applications. This case is simply an illustration of the effect forced labelling can have on people's lives. The forced labelling of queers is no different, as we have already seen in the past.

We may be straight, queer, cis, trans, belong to any minority, be of any ethnicity or otherwise belong to any arbitrary class of citizens, but no one deserves to be treated worse simply based on the categorised label printed on their badge.
We want to be treated as people first, and any labels should come secondary.

Calling my existence a “sensitive issue” is one step toward eradication.

What a cruel path to consider. Do not go down this road, Twitch.

wtf - whats going on twitch? No human is illegal or special. We all are individual

I totally agree. This bullet has to be removed. LGBTQ+ people, immigrants, and reproductive rights are NOT "sensitive social issues", they are common sense issues, where one side simply wants their liberties intact.

Why would we do this? This is borderline if not outright censorship and driving away both money and viewers. Queer people won’t even be able to be openly queer.

The guidelines as written already make it seem like simply being queer and mentioning your own identity on your stream requires content labelling. These rules are not putting the political discussion behind a content filter, they are siding with the hateful view and labelling queer people as inherently inappropriate.

It is sad that Twitch is codifying the hate being spread by a vocal minority and furthering the hateful agenda of labeling us as “political” and “inappropriate”, labels they intentionally apply to us as a means of silencing us.

A neutral stance is to treat us no different. The current guidelines are taking a stand against us and saying we are abnormal and inherently inappropriate.

If this is allowed to stand unchallenged, eventually merely existing as a queer individual on Twitch won't be allowed

why this article even exists is honestly absurd

Frankly the last 2 bullet points are equally problematic here for the same reasons. Keeping them is frankly pure hatred behind a cowardly, fascist, face mask.

My existence is not a "controversial topic." I'm absolutely disgusted that it'd even be insinuated that me talking about general topics pertaining to my everyday life would be compared in any way, shape, or form to LITERAL WAR.
As a trans-woman, it is disgusting that I would have to tag myself just for existing on the platform as if I was talking about coverage of civil unrest, military conflict, and national security matters.
It's absurd that entire groups of people just trying to live their lives cannot talk about their own lives or existence without it being labeled sensitive social issues and sealed off from the rest of the site

my existence as a trans person is not a "sensitive social issue."

Labelling these basic human rights as "Sensitive" implies twitch believes there is an alternative.

Do better

The issue I find with this is because of the fact that I am a trans-woman. My model is feminine, but my voice isn't. So of course there's gonna be questions that I can't avoid answering.

"Views," an incredibly broad term, involving characteristics of people, especially when not harmful, should NOT be thrown into the same boat as coverage of civil unrest, military conflict, and national security matters. This really doesn't sit right with anyone.