Shame on you for this, Twitch. Human rights are NOT a political matter, regardless of whether it involves LGBTQ+ people or not, and labeling it as such is going down the slippery slope of bigotry.

Twitch if you are reading this...please understand that LGBTQ rights are only "controversial" because bigoted people who seek to erase their existence deem them to be as such.

To be quite blunt, you are playing into the hands of these bigots and being complicit in their discrimination against LGBTQ people. There is no Neutrality in regards to human rights, the answer is always either yes or no.

By choosing to implement this policy, Twitch has given the bigots and oppressors what they want, by affirming their notion that LGBTQ existence and struggle is somehow "controversial" or "Taboo" enough to require forewarning.

It makes one wonder if Twitch's own LGBTQ staff were even consulted or if this policy was made about them without there input. Making policies about an already marginalized group without running it by them is akin to how colonials drew borders without consulting the natives.

I feel strongly that twitch should apologize to the communities effected, amend the policy by removing the bullet point that singles out marginalized minorities, and allow a third party investigation to determine what preventative measures need to be taken to prevent these kinds of discriminatory policies from taking place again.

my existence is not political. LBGTQ+ Rights are (and always will be) Human Rights.

our existence isn't political. these policies don't need to exist.

This policy is extremely discriminatory against LGBT+ users on the platform, and contributes to an agenda that demands our erasure. My existence as a non-binary person is not political or a sensitive issue, it's WHO I AM. I refuse to be censored or hidden behind a label for talking about my day-to-day life. Remove this bigoted policy.

Let's leave aside all the numerous ethical issues for a moment and keep it to purely cynical money thinking:

This is WILDLY discriminatory and would likely result in some extremely unpleasant lawsuits. Let's not go there.

the existence of humans is not a political issue.

Pretending to be “politically neutral” is taking a stance. Acting like queer people are inherently political is dehumanizing and setting the standard that queerness is something that can be debated.

Its discriminatory if one can have their straight partner on stream, but as soon as they’re the same gender it’s labeled as political.

It’s discriminatory that if trans people want to be referred to by their preferred pronouns it’s political.

These policies take a stand that Queer people do not have the right to stand on equal footing with everyone else. Baring queer people from the rest of the platform is discriminatory

"Are you straight or political?"
"Are you white or political?"
"Are you cis or political?"
"Are you a man or political?"
- Twitch

This is just putting a target on already targeted people. What a stupid and ignorant idea to make people who are already harassed and harmed for existing even more in harms way.

Especially since a large audience of Twitch include these demographics. I fear they're letting current Twitter influence sway them, a website that empowers hateful demographics.

really sick of my existence being nothin but a political scapegoat to you sick *****

Good to know my existence is apparently inherently political now.

This was a decision made for the people controlling the platform, not for its users in any regards. These sorts of rules begin as simple content moderation and then eventually turn into much worse, as many people are saying here. Instead of listening to out-of-touch executives, listen to the people who actually use and support your service.

My existence is not political.

If LGBTQ+ people need a warning label for talking about their queerness, then non-LGBTQ+ people need a warning label for talking about their non-queerness too. At that point, everyone will need a warning label, so why even bother making a label to begin with? Singling out one group like this is begging for a discrimination lawsuit, I swear

Our existence is not a social issue. It is not political. This is extremely bigoted and needs to be removed.

Seriously, this is the most ignorant thing they could have done. These things shouldn't be political, but people make things that way, the weather was made political for crying out loud. It's just helping hate raids figure out who to target, undoing whatever Twitch did to "try" and help shut that down. What's next, skin color? They're just painting targets on people's backs for groups who love to discriminate by forcing streamers to do this

Great to know my income will be limited by the platform just because I'm transgender. My existence is not political.

This is the most fascist thing I've seen since I watched a literal, fully dressed, Nazi walk through a food line in Silver Dollar City without any staffing saying anything, even after complaints and one of the cooks quitting right there. Wtf Twitch, do better. We're humans, our identity and journeys of self discovery do NOT warrant the same thing as supporting genocide and needless wars. We have every right to talk about ourselves on this platform and show how far we've come in realizing oneself. You'd not only lose money from the viewers effected, but also the streamers who would either be kicked off the site for being too openly queer or who would leave because of the streamers being kicked, and the new streamers who wouldn't be welcomed because of how they identify. You would eventually be left with an echo chamber of neo-nazi wannabes spouting off ******** propaganda about how the LGBT+ community is some kind of evil witch coven hellbent on corrupting the youth.