My existence is not political, it is not a "sensitive social issue". This is a step backwards in terms of acceptance and needs to be addressed. My life is not degenerate in any way. Twitch needs to buck up.

Discussions regarding a community's right to exist freely should not even be up for debate. It's very disappointing that twitch would even consider such policies

I just want to live my life, it is not political it's what I experience

My being and right to exist is not political. The only reason why it's political is because one side literally wants me gone. The controversy is not on me for being in this world, just wanting to peacefully exist.

I am not a sensitive political issue

As a media platform, you control what's availible for advertisers to object to or not. If you accept unreasonable complaints about "controversy" from advertisers, you will only shape the bounds of what is acceptable to a tiny minority of people who don't even buy or engage with the platform in good faith. The only "controversy" that comes from discussing lgbtq people, is that a tiny group of people who don't buy anything anyway, will whine about seeing them. Remove the bullet point, be wise.

Who people are shouldn't be a 'sensitive topic' that needs to be called out. The fact that this is a petition that had to be made and a vote I had to make is disgusting. Do better, for once, Twitch.

Being LGBTQIA+ isn't political. The people who think this are hateful, ignorant, uneducated, and angry at a world that will not cater to them. This is no different than making what race you are or what language you speak political. Do not feed the people who are afraid of a boogeyman that does not exist. Do not give any credence to their delusions. Do not validate their aged, tired, and quite frankly disgusting views.

Who I, or others, love is not a political debate.

Me being myself is not politics, I and others like me should be able to talk about ourselves, our experiences and journeys

This place should continue being a safe space for people like us and not the latter

Your first goal should never be pandering to advertisers, but fostering a strong community. If social minorities are shunted to the back, it's inevitably going to weaken that, shifting the entire site's politics to more reactionary ones and excluding more and more people.

I'm a trans woman. I'm not political, I'm not a political debate, and the identities of other LGBTQ+ people aren't either. We are not political candidates, we are not wars, we are people. Let us share to the world who we are.

The only reason my existence as a queer person is "political" is because some politicians would prefer I be scrubbed out. If these bigots stopped labeling me and people like me dangerous, predatory, mentally ill, etc, just for (a) existing openly and (b) advocating for body autonomy, there wouldn't be any need to bring politics into it. LGBTQIA+ people aren't the ones making this a "political issue", and it's only a "sensitive issue" to those who are upset about the mere concept of LGBTQIA+ people living their lives without fear or shame.

I find Twitch's lack of faith in the LGBT+ community, their discussions, and sharing of experiences disturbing. Calling us discussing identity is supposed to be comparable to war? Down right despicable.

Blanket banning all discussion of LGBTQ+ people, immigrants, reproductive rights, etc., is a decision that removes the ability to even discuss my own personal identity in my stream, let alone talk about friends and family. Saying that my very identity is political is making me, and those like me, into "the other" and in turn makes it easier to separate us for more harmful things. Hate speech is the issue, not my gender or sexuality.

Incredible but also unsurprising how twitch will put their foot down on this, rather than the massive wave of hateful pathetic little men. A week-long paid vacation for a known bigot versus permanently policing and ostracizing a community that just exists outside of the cis, white, Christian heternormative sphere really shows where the platform and its shareholders stand. Which again, it's not to anyone's surprise. I wish twitch and all the people monetarily involved in its operations from conception to now, and the future a very "I hope you lose everything you own and love"

Being LGBTQ+ has nothing to do with politics and has nothing to do with being "sensitive social issues" it’s about who you are, it’s not a choice or a belief/view, it’s how you’re born. Having to mark such topics is the same kind of wrong and nonsensical as labelling discussions about things like disabilities

Ask yourself if you'd consider "straight, cisgender topics" controversial or sensitive. You wouldn't, unless you're an intellectually dishonest moron.

So why then, would the opposite be sensitive? The only reason it's controversial is because it's 2024 and somehow we still have people like weak willed liberals, republicans, fascists, and nazis in power.

Protect peoples identity from making it a politics, stop giving harrasing groups who are going out their way for Illintent tools to trap streamers who are themselves. Because the rules allow for random enforcement which will result in abuse of the system and based on the opinion of the individual rather then society, given the internet is not the right measurement for societies standing, the biggots wil be heard and those being themselves will be smothered. Leaving only twitch to die on a toxic user base.

Stop the decay of twitch

Where is my protection to different religions that are fundamentally basked in hatred and glorifies the death of their adversaries, I have a hammerclaw marking on my face to remember me how loving religion is.

Don't seperate identity and twitch, seperate the church and twitch

I am a human being and in no way comparable with 'war' I am not a controversial topic, don't give me a reason to, maybe instead find something that gives the people trying to hurt us a slap on the wrist instead of slapping us on the wrist as well.
Edit: I also like to believe this was done in a way to try and protect us by flagging others content, but this isn't the way to do it