This is only a sensitive issue to bigots.

As a person who grew up with immigrant and refugee friends, their existence isn't political either! These are labels that define a person for the entirety of their life. They make up an individual's identity. Calling them sensitive social issues dehumanizes us. Even though we are more than these part of us, we should not have to hide them! We should be allowed to be open about ourselves without it being call political. It's not political.

Guess we have to add Twitch to the ever-expanding list of companies, rich weirdos, and pundits who attack the queer community's mere existence as some kind of political controversy rather than just folks who want to be left alone.

It's not exactly a pleasant surprise to see that me trying to mind my own trans business has been put on the same level of controversy as genocide, war crimes, political assassinations, and public servants committing white collar felonies. Especially coming from a website I spend a such a significant amount of my screen time on.

Just because you see rainbow flags as marketing tools to generate more money during June, doesn't mean that's what they are. And while it's not exactly surprising, it's still frankly reprehensible and disgusting coming from a company who has boasted in its online marketing about its support for queer creators both during and outside of Pride month.

Very few creators I follow and support on this platform are not on the queer spectrum. And those who are not have been openly respectful and supportive because that is the default. A basic display of good manners, in other words. I guarantee every single one opposes this, big and small.

Do you have any idea how much the LGBTQ+ tag helps queer people find communities they'll feel safe in? Now all of the openly queer streamers I know removed it from their stream, meaning people who need those spaces on Twitch will struggle to find them now. It's discriminatory, period.

That this change happens immediately before an election is telling, as well. So I will say as every other commenter has.

*We are human beings. Our existence is not political.* We are only controversial to the worst people who frequent your platform, many of whom are banned for obvious reasons. People who you should not market to or cater to, and make up a loud minority that does not affect your numbers by any significant margin. To publicly take the side of those spouting queerphobic nontroversies to fuel culture war nonsense that the vast majority of streamers and gamers do not care about is not only bad for your image, but utter nonsense to boot.

Remove the "sensitive issues" bullet point from Article VII.

Remove it. Don't be that guy

Many folks have already raised important points about people from basically any minority label, and I would like to add that literally any issue where two people disagree can be classified as a "sensitive social issue". The wording is vague and unenforcible.

If my friend and I disagree on whether something is "normal", are we just two people who disagree, or is that evidence of a socio-economic divide between us? Is it evidence of a cultural divide between us? We are from two different countries across the world, are we in the wrong for discussing our differences at all?

Bluntly speaking, what the **** were you thinking? LGBTQA+people are NOT something to be censored!

Restricting 'sensitive' or 'political' discussion... Migod. That's just cowardice of the worst kind.

It has been demonstrated time and time again that policies like this disproportionately affect LGBTQIA+ users of a platform, and have led previously to social media companies being sued for breaches of discrimination laws. This has already been shown to be a bad, unfair idea.

This is truly a backwards step, it shows a callous disregard for the fact that queer people just exist. Like as a constant state of being. Labeling discussions of someone's literal being is truly backwards 😔

I cannot believe this got through however many team members to surface here in the first place. This bullet point will not only label others to be avoided on those topics or the way they are, which is no choice and it is who they are, but it will also add a target to their backs for hate and harassment.

This decision will backfire if it has time to settle in. The entire platform will change and for the worse. The biggest players for Twitch will even be affected by this. This will actually hurt the platform and its users more than Amazon will ever realize until too late, all to be 'safe.' For shame.

Yes, remove it.

Human rights are not a "sensitive social issue".

My, and so many other's right to exist is not and should never be political.

You need to correct this, Amazon and Twitch.

Yeah this is upsetting poor decision making, our existence shouldn't have to be classified as sensitive, we shouldn't have to warn people about our existence within a space. This is very obvious discrimination and cowardice on Twitch's end. Be better Twitch, or you will lose viewers.

This is disgusting. Flagging any discussion of an entire minority community as 'inappropriate' or 'sensitive' is gross misstep towards censorship.

Being gay is not a political choice and discussion about your life should not be something that requires flagging your stream.

Remove it. Me being trans doesn't make my right to existence "political."

LGBTQ+ is a way of life, it is a human right to exists, not a political issue. shame on you twitch for have this change!!!!

remove it!

I am a human. My life experiences are not sensitive social issues.

How dare you. This is unconscionable.

An LGBTQ+ person talking about their life shouldn’t be considered political content, unless the alternative opinion that we should be shunned from society is held with equal weight. For a company that loves claiming support for us when convenient for brand image, this is absolutely shameful and actively serves to make Twitch an unsafe environment for people like me.

People are not sensitive subject.