Jeopardy! champion Amy Schneider has become the first woman to bag $1 million on the popular competition program.Already the highest-earning female contestant in the quiz show's history and the woman with the longest winning streak, on Friday she became one of only four Jeopardy!
players to reach seven figures in regular-season winnings.During an interview with the Associated Press about her various accomplishments she revealed her approach to being a trans celebrity.
Winner:Jeopardy! champion Amy Schneider has become the first woman to bag $1 million on the popular competition programAlthough she has in the past publicly urged voters in her home state of Ohio not to vote Republican, she insisted 'I don't want my social media to be a place where people are arguing about politics all the time.'She added: 'But at the same time, I can't ignore the fact that there´s people out there threatening my brothers and sisters in the trans community.
Here I have a chance to say something about it, and I can't be completely silent. I don't necessarily want to be super-activist about it and constantly banging that drum.' Schneider noted: 'But I can't be silent either, when I know that there's so many people in danger of real hurt and harm from political policies.'However she is also polite to her political opponents as 'I grew up in a Republican household and a Catholic environment, and many people I love are conservative in various ways.