Transgender Jeopardy! champion Amy Schneider -- a man who identifies as a woman -- is defending sex-change procedures for children.
“What I did to become famous was answer a bunch of trivia questions,” he writes. “I’m proud of how I did that, and I’m honored that people connected with me,” adding that testifying was part of “the work of using that fame for good.”Schneider recalls he started cross-dressing at home while married to his then-wife Kelly. When he tried to bring it up with her, “it seemed clear to me this was not a part of my life she had any interest in sharing.
“I realized that being trans in public carried responsibilities,” he writes. “To hide my voice began to feel like a betrayal to my community.”Follow David Ng on Twitter
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