Jeopardy! champion Amy Schneider opened up about how the sport present modified her perspective on her appears to be like. To have fun Transgender Consciousness Month, the champion is embarking on a tour for her e book, Within the Type of a Query: The Joys and Rewards of a Curious Life. She talked to CBS Information KPIX within the Bay Space about her expertise.
Amy Schneider ranks quantity two behind Ken Jennings for many consecutive video games gained with 40 on the Leaderboard of Legends. She can be ranked quantity 4 for Highest Winnings in Common Season Play with $1,382,800. Schneider’s remaining Jeopardy! achievement is being ranked quantity 5 for All-Time Winnings (together with tournaments) with $1,682,800.
She instructed her native information station how Jeopardy! made her not care about how she regarded or sounded. “It actually type of compelled me to recover from numerous my doubts about my self-image and about my voice and the whole lot else as a result of I used to be on nationwide tv for a few months,” Schneider mentioned.
“Ever since then, I’ve actually not anxious about my look or the rest. I gown for myself and I look how I wish to look, not how I feel I’ve to to attraction to different folks,” she added.
Schneider got here out as a transgender lady throughout her run in 2021 and transitioned in 2017. At an occasion to assist LGBTQ+ leaders, she used her platform to talk out on gender-affirming care and different transgender points.
“Healthcare is being taken away from transgender children in some locations, and the motion behind that desires to take it away from all trans folks all over the place,” she mentioned. “It’s solely as a result of we’ve come to date that it’s attainable for these assaults to be taking place.”
“To know that I’ve been in a position to do one thing, even inadvertently, to make trans folks completely satisfied, to assist them, to provide them some type of consolation with the struggles they’re going by, it’s simply extremely significant and it’s one thing I by no means thought would occur in life,” she continued.
Together with Within the Type of a Query, Schneider lately launched a children’ model of her e book referred to as Who Is Amy Schneider? Questions on Rising Up, Being Curious, and Profitable It Huge on Jeopardy!.
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