She wasn't expecting to take questions from the podium.
. On Thursday, she made an appearance at the White House press briefing room podium in honor of International Transgender Day of Visibility.
"Jeopardy!" champion Amy Schneider talks with reporters in the James S. Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House on Thursday in Washington. In honor of International Transgender Day of Visibility, Schneider, the first openly transgender"Jeopardy!" winner, visited the White House to meet with second gentleman Doug Emhoff and discuss the advancement of transgender rights.
“They’re really scary. Some of them in particular that are denying medical services to trans youth, those are lifesaving medical treatments,” Schneider said. “These bills will cause the deaths of children, and that’s really sad to me and really frightening.”
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