Amy Schneider will be the first transgender 'Jeopardy!' contestant to compete in the show’s Tournament of Champions.
The engineering manager from Oakland, California, won her 10th consecutive game Tuesday night, earning her a total of $380,200, the eighth-highest total in regular season play. She has now become the first transgender contestant to qualify for the Tournament of Champions.
Schneider also wore a transgender Pride flag pin on last week’s Thanksgiving Day episode to raise awareness.wrote in a Twitter thread“The fact is, I don’t actually think about being trans all that often, and so when appearing on national television, I wanted to represent that part of my identity accurately: as important, but also relatively minor," she added."But I also didn’t want it to seem as if it was some kind of shameful secret.
She also said the Thanksgiving holiday marked the"right time" to wear the trans Pride pin, as the"community might be having a hard time right now." “Thanksgiving is a holiday that is all about family. And that can be hard for anybody who has been ostracized or otherwise cut off from their family ... a group which, sadly, still includes a disproportionately high number of trans people, especially trans youth and trans people of color."Schneider is not the first transgender person to win on “Jeopardy!” Last year, Kate Freeman
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