Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez gives shoutout to transgender community during Twitch stream: ‘Trans rights!’

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez called for transgender rights during her massively hyped Twitch broadcast.

On Tuesday, the Democratic congresswoman from New York become one of the streaming platform’s most impressive broadcasters as she participated in a game of “Among Us.”

In the super popular multiplayer game of teamwork and betrayal, players are dropped onto an alien spaceship and need to find out who the alien impostor among the crew is.

Ocasio-Cortez used the opportunity to encourage viewers to vote, while speaking to nearly half a million viewers about social justice issues.

Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is pictured in her office in Jackson Heights, Queens, on Wednesday, August 7, 2019. (Go Nakamura/)

AOC was joined by fellow Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar, of Minnesota, and a number of Twitch celebrities, including pokimane, HasanAbi and Jacksepticeye.

Hbomberguy, a famed Twitch streamer known for videos criticizing alt-right and antifeminist rhetoric, joined AOC’s three-hour Twitch spectacle about halfway through the stream.

According to U.K.-based LGBTQ news website Pink News, Hbomberguy is the screen name of Harris Brewis, who in 2019 raised more than 340,00 pounds ($448,000) for the transgender rights charity Mermaids.

“Trans rights!” an excited AOC yelled into her mic, as soon as she saw his name appearing on the screen.

Her short, powerful words quickly took over Twitter timelines across the world.

“She touched on fracking, she touched on healthcare, she screamed TRANS RIGHTS!! All while playing Among Us.,” Twitter user @ismarie wrote.

“AOC just yelled “trans rights!” in front of 300k+ gamers you love to see it,” another user, @steamboatwillyo, added.

The stream peaked at 439,000 concurrent viewers — an impressive count that’s among the 20 biggest streams of the site, based on data from TwitchTracker.