“Jeopardy” Star Amy Schneider Invited to White House on Transgender Day of Visibility

Thursday was Transgender Day of Visibility, and to honor the day, President Joe Biden invited Jeopardy! champion Amy Schneider to the White House.

Schneider, the first openly gay transgender winner on the show,  joined second gentleman Doug Emhoff and assistant health secretary Rachel Levine, the first openly transgender federal official to be confirmed by the Senate, for a conversation with transgender kids and their parents.

“[The bills affecting transgender people are] really scary and some of them in particular that are denying medical services to trans youth, those are, those are life-saving medical treatments,” Schneider told reporters at the White House. “These bills will cause the deaths of children and that’s really sad to me and it’s really frightening.”

In a brief video message yesterday, Biden said that “the onslaught of anti-transgender state laws attacking you and your families is simply wrong.”

He also reassured that his administration “is standing up for you against all these hateful bills. And we’re committed to advancing transgender equality in the classroom, on the playing field, at work, in our military, and our housing and health care systems.”

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