Jeopardy! famous person Amy Schneider is paying no thoughts to merciless strangers who name her by her male identify from earlier than her transition once they see her in public.
On Thursday (November 15), the 40-day champion and 2022 Event of Champions winner took to X to mirror on occasions she’s been “deadnamed.” Lifeless-naming is the act of referring to a transgender or non-binary individual by a reputation they used previous to transitioning, corresponding to their beginning identify.
“It’s humorous to me when individuals attempt to deadname me by calling me ‘Thomas’, a reputation that I by no means glided by,” she wrote. “I used to be Tommy, then Tom, and now Amy. Get your details straight, intrusive weirdos!”
It’s humorous to me when individuals attempt to deadname me by calling me “Thomas”, a reputation that I by no means glided by. I used to be Tommy, then Tom, and now Amy. Get your details straight, intrusive weirdos!
— Amy Schneider (@Jeopardamy) November 14, 2024
Followers flooded the feedback part, loving Schneider’s humorous retort about her identify having by no means been Thomas in her eyes and the way she made mild of the unthinkable state of affairs by turning it into a bit of trivia.
“I’d slightly simply name you the GOAT,” one fan commented.
“One thing about that is so humorous to me. “If you happen to’re gonna deadname me, do it proper a**holes” is simply the appropriate angle to have on this local weather,” wrote one other.
“So sorry you need to take care of that. People could be the worst! You will have lots of people behind you, although!” wrote a 3rd.
“Your identify is Amy interval. Genius works too nevertheless it’s not your identify,” wrote a fourth.
“One factor is for positive Amy, they’re by no means going to beat you in a sport of wits,” wrote a fifth.
“If they’re keen to stoop to that stage of senseless condescension in the direction of somebody they don’t even know, it looks like they honestly do regard you as a lady in spite of everything,” wrote yet another.
Schneider, 45, was born underneath her unique identify in Dayton, Ohio in 1979. In 2021, she would, in fact, turn into the winningest feminine contestant ever ($1.3 million). Final yr, Schneider launched her first memoir, Within the Type of a Query: The Joys and Rewards of a Curious Life. The tell-all acquired into unflinching element about her private life, together with a largely unknown first marriage whereas nonetheless male.
Within the e-book, Schneider recalled rising up within the Boy Scouts. The “nightmare expertise” made her understand, “I’m not a boy.” She additionally shared a formative expertise the place she watching Romeo + Juliet with Leonardo DiCaprio, making her additionally understand, “I merely didn’t like boys.” On the College of Dayton, she felt caught, “Whereas suicide held no attraction for me, staying alive didn’t appear that tempting, both.” She stated the cult animated present Daria helped her persevere, “If Daria might survive this Sick Unhappy World, so might I.”
Schneider additionally opened up about assembly her first spouse, Kelly, at age 21. The couple acquired married and determined to be polyamorous. She began cross-dressing at residence in non-public, hiding heels and different clothes from her then-wife. “It appeared clear to me this was not part of my life she had any curiosity in sharing.” That marriage, nevertheless, induced her to have a breakthrough.
In 2016, Schneider recalled journaling the day her first spouse left her for somebody exterior their marriage: “Possibly I’ll strive being a pirate for some time. Or a author, or a lady.”
Amy transitioned quickly after, ditching her “ugly, ill-fitting boy costume,” and the remainder is historical past. “I spotted that being trans in public carried duties,” she shared about being a trailblazer on Jeopardy!. “To cover my voice started to really feel like a betrayal to my neighborhood.”
Schneider now lives in Oakland, California, and is married to Genevieve Davis, 26. They tied the knot in a small non-public ceremony on Might 9, 2022 at a courthouse in California. Amy’s $250,000 ToC win and $75,000 from Jeopardy! Masters Season 1 earned her $1.62 million in complete winnings. She was unable to repeat her success in Masters Season 2 and completed in fourth place.
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