Jeopardy! champion Amy Schneider has become the first woman to bag $1 million on the popular competition program.

Already the highest-earning female contestant in the quiz show’s history and the woman with the longest winning streak, on Friday she became one of only four Jeopardy! players to reach seven figures in regular-season winnings.

During an interview with the Associated Press about her various accomplishments she revealed her approach to being a trans celebrity.

Winner: Jeopardy! champion Amy Schneider has become the first woman to bag $1 million on the popular competition program

Although she has in the past publicly urged voters in her home state of Ohio not to vote Republican, she insisted ‘I don’t want my social media to be a place where people are arguing about politics all the time.’

She added: ‘But at the same time, I can’t ignore the fact that there´s people out there threatening my brothers and sisters in the trans community. Here I have a chance to say something about it, and I can’t be completely silent. I don’t necessarily want to be super-activist about it and constantly banging that drum.’

Schneider noted: ‘But I can’t be silent either, when I know that there’s so many people in danger of real hurt and harm from political policies.’

However she is also polite to her political opponents as ‘I grew up in a Republican household and a Catholic environment, and many people I love are conservative in various ways. I know them, and I know they’re not intentionally out there doing harm and that they have reasons for the positions that they hold.

Accomplished: She is already the highest-earning female contestant in the quiz show’s history and the woman with the longest winning streak

‘So I want to engage people from (across) the spectrum where that’s possible. But it has to be in a condition where my right to exist is granted, otherwise we can’t talk.’

She’s collected $1.02 million in 28 victories, solidifying her 4th-place position on the list that includes Ken Jennings with $2.5 million; James Holzhauer, $2.46 million, and Matt Amodio, $1.52 million. 

Schneider, who is also fourth in consecutive wins and is the first trans person to quality for the tournament of champions, will compete again Monday.

She is tickled by having fulfilled a prediction made by her 8th-grade classmates in Dayton, Ohio – she was voted most likely to be a Jeopardy! contestant, based on her geography and spelling bee prowess.

Her stance: During an interview with the Associated Press about her various accomplishments she revealed her approach to being a trans celebrity

She is an engineering manager living in Oakland, California and told the AP she has kept her day job but dreams of an entertainment career.

As for fame in general she said: ‘ Just seeing myself on TV still is almost a shock, even though I was there when it all happened. I thought I could win some games but I didn´t think I would do this well.’

Schneider dished: ‘The other day, my girlfriend mentioned some famous people that had gone to her high school, and I was thinking: “I know there was somebody who went to mine.” I looked it up on Wikipedia and there I was, listed under notable alumni. That was a very weird moment to see that.’

Prescient :She is tickled by having fulfilled a prediction made by her 8th-grade classmates in Dayton, Ohio – she was voted most likely to be a Jeopardy! contestant

When it comes to being a role model for trans people in particular she said: ‘ I have definitely heard from other trans people who have been sort of thrilled to see me out there. But one of the things that I´ve enjoyed the most is hearing from parents, and sometimes grandparents, of trans people, an older generation.’

Schneider explained: ‘There’s a lot of fear for their loved ones who are trans, and worry that they might be limited in life. To be able to go out there and show that I can be successful in a very mainstream type of way has, I think, made a lot of them feel better about the people in their lives.’

She has dipped her toe in the comedy pool and ‘done open mics around town, just for fun and not seriously pursued it, but I´ve been a performer my whole life.’

Fans: She shared that ‘one of the things that I´ve enjoyed the most is hearing from parents, and sometimes grandparents, of trans people, an older generation’

Schneider spilled: ‘As I was struggling with the necessity of coming out, definitely one of the fears was: “Will I still be comfortable in public and will I still be able to perform after I transitioned?” And seeing them definitely helped with that.’

She is ‘dreaming,’ of life in showbiz but is unaware ‘exactly in what direction I would want to take that, and I don´t know what opportunities will be available’ when she is through with her run on Jeopardy!.

‘But I´ve been working on my writing as a field I might find some opportunities in. Beyond that, I´m just sort of riding it out and kind of seeing what may or may not come up as it goes along.’