My life shouldn’t be a sensitive topic

The vast majority of streamers I watch do regularly discuss or are LGBTQ+, the removal of them means myself and many others would avoid Twitch due to this policy. They should fully well be allowed to discuss themselves without fear of being banned.

my existence isn't "political" i shouldn't have to flag myself as such.

This is deeply absurd. A large part of your viewership and streamers are queer. Why are you making LGBTQ+ folk political?

People should be able to talk about their own lives without it being labelled ‘sensitive content’. This would in no way be helpful to anybody and just harms already marginalized voices

People get banned every day for things. This decision to support hate (content warnings for LGBTQ+) instead of love should be banned! Do the right thing.

Whilst I myself am not a streamer, I am a part of the LGBTQ+ community, and so are the vast majority of people I chat with during streams, and so are most of the streamers that I DO watch. We're not a "sensitive social issue" for existing, for making jokes that are relevant to the community, for being ourselves, for talking about our experiences once in a while. There are urgent issues Twitch should have been addressing for years, that have yet to be addressed, meanwhile, they're giving the tools for bigots to silence people like us for simply existing, talking, etc., shoving us in a "category" of social ISSUES. Whilst aspects of the LGBTQ+ community CAN be political, the existence of the people as such, is not. Much of the same can be said about many groups of people not considered under the "social issues" label. To separate us from the rest of the Twitch community is to alienate us, as community AND the streamers. We're just people. Equally, immigration and reproductive rights discussions shouldn't be a "sensitive social issue", just because it "upsets the conservative communities" or whatever reason it may be for this choice, because I honestly can't imagine what else it could be for this specific choice of labelling. The Twitch communities have made it clear - most people hate this rule, myself included. I suggest listening.

We are people. Some of us are apart of the lgbtq community. We are all free but yet… you’re trying to take one of our amendment rights and lock it down so much. WE HAVE THE RIGHT TO FREEDOM OF SPEECH. We should not have to be labeled as hostile or as controversial! We have the right to talk freely about us! Don’t force us to hide that!

A person simply existing as they are without hiding should not be a political topic.

Claiming important social issues such as gender equality, lgbtq rights, and matters regarding ethnic minorities is harmful as it emboldens people who will try and dismiss these claims as "contraversial". Human rights are not contraversial.

This policy of tagging topics will also serve to discourage civil and constructive discussion of such matters, as people will simply avoid discussing such topics in order to avoid alienating potential audiences with a mandatory tag.

Policy like this is harmful to free speech. While it is beneficial to have optional tags for users, this change in policy serves to brand users who seek to share opinions and sets an hazardous precedent, that "anything we dont like or challenges a current status quo is pollitical".

I stand against this policy change and will not be supporting twitch in the future should this change remain in place.

Rubbish.

It's just offensive that they think me simply existing is a controversial and political in the same way as a war. This is just an attempt at censorship. My username literally has the word 'trans' and a lesbian flag pfp, is that against the rules or something now? if my username was 'cishetkat' would that be against the rules too?

A channel shouldn't have to label just because it want to be an inclusive and safe space.

LGBTQIA+ people need to stop being seen as a controversy its common knowledge now that racism is wrong thats just the fact there's no debate why can't it be that way for lgbtqia+ people there is literally no reason the answer should be any different than just saying queer discrimination is wrong that should be the end of it

its a bs move to mark someones existence a political issue. its disgusting to think about and is frankly dishonest and hurtful to the majority of people who use the platform

My existence is not a "sensitive social issue". It's frankly absurd and offensive that Twitch would try to censor it in this fashion.

Our existence and identities shouldn't mean that we get siloed off to another section of the site.

It’s ridiculous to think that just existing as an LGBT person is wrong… FFS I’m bisexual and my fiancé is Asexual, it’s not right that who we are is being put in a sensitive topic category, it’s total ******** and if any topic is “sensitive” it’s religious topics, if that isn’t the most heated topic ever I don’t know 🤷🏻‍♂️ wtf is…

Flagging LGBTQ+ content as political, sensitive, or adult has never protected us and always further demeaned, marginalized, and silenced us. Meanwhile streamers who actively smear and attack our rights aren't being flagged like this. It's obviously going to suppress queer content and it's discriminatory.

We she be able to exist with out being shut away from the general eye.