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Amy Schneider, a lifelong Jeopardy! fan, has made history on the show. She’s been on a winning streak, taking home the top prize in 10 games total. As she heads into game 11 tonight, however, Schneider has taken note of the history she’s made while continuing as the reigning champ on the storied quiz show. While she may not be the first transgender contestant to win the show — that title belongs to Kate Freeman — she has become the first trans contestant to qualify for the Tournament of Champions.
“Seeing trans people anywhere in society that you haven’t seen them before is so valuable for the kids right now that are seeing it,” Schneider said in an interview with ABC. “I’m so grateful that I am giving some nerdy little trans kid somewhere the realization that this is something that they could do too.”
In order to qualify, winners must come out on top in five games. So, Schneider will throw down with big time winners like Jonathan Fisher and Matt Amodio when the time rolls around for Jeopardy!‘s best of the best come together.
The contestant, who won for the first time during Trans Awareness Week, opened up about why Jeopardy! means so much to her. Growing up in Ohio, she says she’s been watching the show from a very young age with her parents because they always had it on in the background.
“My mom was a college professor so was always very interested in learning, and she really instilled that in me,” she said in her Jeopardy! winner’s circle interview yesterday. “Growing up in the Midwest in a conservative family, I had gotten kind of a distorted idea of what it meant to be trans, and so seeing her being smart and funny and cool and just a normal person with a normal life and kids and everything like that just showed me that it was something that I could possibly be, and that really made a difference for me.”
Tonight, Schneider will compete for her eleventh-straight win on the game show, where she’s currently racked up $380,200 in winnings.
Jeopardy! airs weeknights on ABC at 11/10c.
