If you’ve binge-watched NBC’s game show Jeopardy!, you might recognize Amy Schneider.
If not, Amy Schneider is an engineering manager who was a fan favorite on the show. From November 2021 to January 2022, she had a 40-game winning streak on the game show.
Her winning streak was the second-longest in show history, trailing only Ken Jennings’ 74-game winning streak.
She is, however, the most successful woman ever to compete on the show, with a winning streak of $1.3 million.
Amy Schneider identifies as a Transgender
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Schneider underwent gender transformation surgery prior to her appearance on Jeopardy!.
Clearly, there was no public debate or news headline about her surgery to become a transgender woman because she was unknown to the rest of the world prior to surgery.
“The best part for me has been being on TV as my true self,” she said in an interview with George Stephanopoulos.
“Expressing myself, representing the entire community of trans people, and…just being a smart, confident woman doing something super normal like being on Jeopardy!” she continued.
In one of her tweets, she stated that she was proud of her gender but never wanted to be recognized solely as a trans woman.
“In the context of the show, I didn’t want to make too much of being trans. I’m a trans woman, and I’m proud of it, but I’m also a lot of other things! “Her tweet stated.
Schneider was previously married to a wife
Schneider had previously been married to a woman she met after college and before surgery. That was also prior to Jeopardy!.
On December 8, 2021, the game show champion took to Twitter and opened up about her life to her followers.
In doing so, she also revealed that she met her wife after college while performing in a theater production of The Taming of the Shrew.
“She [wife] was playing the titular shrew, and I could make some joke about omens, because we ended up divorcing,” Schneider added.
Following her divorce, she found love in Genevieve, her current girlfriend, who is the sister of her close friend’s boyfriend.
Schneider described how she met her by writing, “My friend was hanging out at my apartment in the summer of 2020, talking on the phone with her boyfriend, and she ended up inviting her boyfriend’s sister over to my place to give her a ride somewhere. Genevieve turned out to be that sister.”
Nonetheless, she implied that the two did not begin dating until February 2021.
Instead, when they weren’t dating, they focused on becoming good friends. Furthermore, they allegedly realized they had a long future together.
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