It's wild that Twitch has put us in this position in the first place, with everything that has been allowed on Twitch queer people is suddenly where they want to draw the line? **** that

I am not a sensitive topic, I am a person. My existence is not political.

Muzzling speech about people just for the way they were born is disgusting and calling it a “social issue” is a callous and disgraceful thing that should be condemned and punished by people who have anything remotely resembling a moral centre.

By labeling minority groups as "sensitive social topics" you are creating an environment where those topics become taboo, effectively pushing us back into the closet. It encourages a rhetoric that the LGBTQ community is an out group to be shunned, when all we want is to just exist without being considered a stigma.

LGBTQ+ does not necessarily mean "explicit content;" I'm not entirely sure why Twitch's Content Classification Guidelines makes this kind of assertion, and frankly I don't see the point in trying to discriminate against a good chunk of your best channels.

You have my vote against Article VII.

Members and allies, please vote! This requirement for LGBTQ+ streamers is nonsensical as someone's orientation or identity should not be labeled a "political" or "controversial" thing.

Please remove this bullet point! It's unkind to a vast majority of the online space, especially those people who use Twitch often and gives ammunition to the people who hate for no purpose!

Considering how many LGBTQ+ creators there are on Twitch, the fact they would even think about adding this is a mind boggling. It's almost like Twitch staff don't even use their own site for anything. So people can legitimately get hate raids and handling that is left to be an issue for the creators to navigate for the longest time, but LGBTQ+ creators merely existing is somehow a problem? At bare minimum, Twitch needs to get their head out of their *** and start doing better. Still genuinely confused on why Twitch thinks this is a good idea.

Twitch's rules on this are just a pathetic coverup for them being against those with different ideologies. It's a ****** attempt at silencing people who feel like this is the only platform they can speak freely on.
Take my vote.

I was not born to make you uncomfortable. I simply exist. If others existing that don't look like you make you uncomfortable, make you should be a better ******* person.

Nothing about being LGBTQ+ is sensitive, the people who don't want to talk about it are the sensitive ones.

My existence is not a sensitive political subject. I'm sorry that apparently some ****** are mortally offended by me wanting to exist

The LGBTQ community isn’t a sensitive social issue. It’s people, some of whom make up a sizable chunk of the user base here.

LGBTQ+ peeps are not, and never have been a "sensitive political topic".

Hey Twitch what is wrong with your heads? I exist because i want to live I'm not a social issue and I'm not a political statement, make the right choice and dont go through with this stupid policy. but if you do go through with it because you wanna keep your stupid investors then I seriously hope you rot in the deepest pits of ****.

The twitch admins need to spend less time on reddit and more time not having double standards and bad practices.

This site is well known for taking sensible feedback i am sure supporting this will help change things for the better :3

I don't even think a plausible reason for me to even be in the need of writing this, but yet, here we are, the very implication of suggesting that LGBTQ+ topics in any conversation is something controversial is utterly ridiculous, for instance, if it is nothing Sexual, or 18+ topics, I wonder, why are you putting that in the same topic that is clearly controversial or sensitive, like, dunno, WAR?! it is degrading and frankly I feel not only attacked but insulted to imply that the existence of people that are part of the community is "controversial"

Use channels to inform people about other people existance is not a adult topic, is just people being people.

The newly added Article VII of the Content Classification Guidelines is extremely vague and problematic and needs to be rewritten in it's entirety and it could potentially currently be weaponized by bad faith actors against vulnerable communities and streams designed to be safe spaces for those communities.

First off I want to recognize that this guideline does already only apply to the focus of a stream, and not to intermittent mentions, but as I will outline with some of these requirements what the "focus" of a stream is can be far too vague and more precise guidelines around what counts as a focus versus intermittent discussion is needed.

Specifically the second to last bullet point "Discussing ideological or socio-political views on topics like gender, race, sexuality, or religion". This as written could include things like supporting trans rights in general or statements along the line of "all people are equal". And what about streams that are specifically safe spaces for various minorities, from LGBTQ+ community to ethnic and racial minorities. Arguably even when the streams content is playing a specific game or doing anything else, being a safe space or being positive about these communities in general and making that part of ones brand or general ethos as a streamer could fall into having your stream be "focused" on Ideological and Sociopolitical views.

Additionally, for "Discussing legislation related to a sensitive social issue such as reproductive rights, LGBTQ+ rights, or immigration", while this does not bar discussing these topics outside of legislation around them, it is not appropriate to class these things as "sensitive social issues" and single legislation on these topics. If the goal is to label streams talking about politics, this should simply require labeling for discussions of legislation in general, and maybe even executive actions. Although even then the lack of guidelines on what constitutes a focus versus intermittent mentions could make this problematic too if a streamer reflects general frustration about something their government is doing, especially when it's comes to governments infringing on human rights including LGBTQ+ rights and reproductive rights, while otherwise focusing on playing on playing a game or doing another activity at what point does that become the focus, examples and guidelines would help.

Lastly, there should be some sort of clarification of how this applies to chats. Does one need to have a label for simply allowing their chat to discuss politics? I assume the intention is no, and that only what the streamer is focused on is what these guidelines are meant to require labeling for, but the policy doesn't really specify this.