Amy Schneider has made a history as the first trans contestant to qualify for the Jeopardy’s Tournament of Champions which is an annual competition of the year’s best players. She has become the fourth highest non-tournament winner ever and made an invaluable contribution by expanding the reach of transgender visibility as of Thursday as she recorded winning $631,400. She also works as an engineer major for Fieldware and as podcaster.
Amy Schneider has boldly talked about her gender’s stereotype with ABC News and said, “I am from Ohio where the only trans people I thought were drag queens or prostitutes.” She also shared with Yahoo Entertainment, “That was definitely one of the factors that held me back from realizing I was trans for so long: I wasn’t either of those things. Being trans was only for these weirdos, or whatever. And so anything that can be done to show trans people as just normal people I think is a great thing. We want to get to a point where trans people are less pioneering and like, you know, that the first trans person to do whatever is just kind of like, whatever! Why wouldn’t a trans person do that? Like, they could do anything that anyone else can do, and there’s nothing unusual about it.”
She also talked about how tough college time was for her and shared her primary activity in college was crippling depression saying, “I just wasn’t really functioning… I didn’t realize it at the time, but the fact that I had to be fake to everyone in my life at all times was really hard.”
Her depression also led her to believe that she was an anti-social person which was not true after coming out and said, “I’m actually a very social person.” She thanked years of therapy and medication for rescuing her from a dark place.
Amy also went into depth and said, “I don’t actually think about it that much. I was definitely aware, going on the show, that being a trans person in the spotlight could be an interesting thing. But, you know, it’s just what I am, and there’s sort of like, nothing to do about it. It’s just who I am.”
She further explained, “One thing is that the show was taped well in advance, so the noise happened afterward, which was good.”
Amy noted that she’s become well-practiced at settling into a focused, game-time mental state and avoiding the toxicity of social media and said, “the negativity was not much as much as I thought there would be. There definitely are people that are saying things to me that I want to respond ti and get into a debate over, but I know that that’s not going to anywhere. I just have to ignore it – and you know, not go into the comment sections on anything.” Schneider also detailed, “The flip side of that is, so much of what I get on Twitter and Facebook is so positive and good. So, it’s well worth it.”
Amy Schneider Dating Girlfriend Genevieve
Amy Schneider had revealed her girlfriend via tweets and said that she fell in love at first sight with her girlfriend, Genevieve. She was introduced to her girlfriend by one of her friends. Actually, Genevieve was the sister of the boyfriend of Amy’s friend.
Her tweet said, “I swear I knew when she walked through that door that she was going to be in my life for a long time. For various, reasons, we didn’t actually start dating until February 2021, but that time as friends was really valuable, and we both think we have a long future together. Finally in March, we completed our family when we adopted a cat, Meep.”
Now, I'd never really believed in "love at first sight," and maybe I'm just retroactively projecting my feelings back onto that encounter, but I swear I knew when she walked in the door that she was going to be in my life for a long time.
— Amy Schneider (@Jeopardamy) December 8, 2021
She also tweeted about her former wife saying they split up in 2016 when her father also passed away and Kevin Durant joined the Warriors and said, “I realized I was trans and Trump got elected. It was quite a year!”
She further tweeted, “Now, when I say I realized I was trans in 2016, I’m simplifying a process that in some ways had been going on my whole life, and certainly since 2011 or so, but 2016 was when I finally realized that I was living a lie, and began to let my true self show.”
Her former spouse was Keely Anneken before transitioning. They used to live in Oakland, California and she finally started living as a trans after divorcing her. They got married in 2004 when Amy was 20 years old. They lived as a married couple for twelve years and the reason for their split hasn’t been out in public yet. Not much is known about her ex-wife. However, her age seems to be at the range of 35-40 and had a big age difference.