It's absurd people cannot talk about their own lives or existence without it being labeled sensitive social issues and sealed off from the rest of the site. It's a slippery slope where anything can become a sensitive topic. It is disrespectful towards the content creators the site depends on to bring traffic and the viewers, who are capable of making their own decisions and shouldn't be on the platform otherwise.

For the people in the back: "LGBTQ+ people, immigrants, and reproductive rights are NOT "sensitive social issues""! Certainly we don't need to tag ourselves and invite harassment from bored bigots

Here's the rub: if tagging LGBTQ content in this way has an effect on the algorithm, in any way, that's grounds for a discrimination lawsuit. You cannot lower people's visibility just for being gay, because sexuality is a protected class. Furthermore, we as viewers have no way of knowing what you promote or how you promote it... a percieved discriminatory act is just as dangerous as a real one. Don't play with fire, Twitch. Take this off.

my life is no more or less explicit in content than anyone else's.

This change literally allows the censorship of LGBTQ+ plain and simple

I'm really getting fed up with my existence being controversial and people thinking they have a right to legislate and govern it. If this is how Twitch wants to conduct itself maybe we should build a competitor. I'm pretty sure all the trans coders and software engineers would be happy to work on a group project.

A person’s mere existence isn’t a political opinion.

not LGBT myself but a pretty big proponent of leaving people alone when they're not hurting anyone just by existing

People discussing their lives or whatever 'social issue' they want shouldn't be censored. We don't want that. Mind ya business and let people live their lives.

I hate that it's even brought up in politics at all. Keep us out of the politics, we just wanna live our lives.

I have my right to set my LGBTQ+ flags so people know it's a safe space for them!

Twitch, don't go elon musk please

We are just trying to exist, I don't want to be censored for being myself.
LGBTQ+ is not an issue, we literally advocate for so much stuff around the streaming space and help our viewers and friends understand us more without being stuck to a stereotype.

For liberty

Our existence, as queer people, is not political. We just exist. Stop trying to censor, silence, shun, ignore, and/or abuse us.

Peace, love, respect, safety. It's all we want. We are not a "sensitive social issuse"

Our existence isn't "political". We shouldn't be shunned, silenced, or ignored simply because others refuse to open their hearts and understand that we want to just live our own lives. Most of us don't hurt or affect anybody, so why should we be treated like we're all monsters?

This is some Project 2025 ********. Stop falling over yourselves trying to comply in advance.

The active silencing of those whose community can even be considered "sensitive" in this day and age is disgraceful. People around the world should be able to voice their individual opinions on local policies at least, we should be able to debate on foreign policies to see different angles, and people should be able to have their voice heard for the communities they are a part of. People should never be silenced for how they are born. There are better ways to resolve political conflict other than silencing the debate.

Twitch reaped the benefits of having LGBT be a tag they could advertise with and now wants to demonize those streamers who brought them revenue? Terrible optics.