US: Trans Jeopardy winner breaks records, shrugs off haters
NBC News reported on January 3 on Amy Schneider, the first Trans contestant to qualify for the game show Jeopardy!'s Tournament of Champions, and on her response to transphobic comments on her Twitter account. "I'd like to thank all the people who have taken the time, during this busy holiday season, to reach out and explain to me that, actually, I'm a man," she wrote on New Year's Eve. "Every single one of you is the first person to make that very clever point, which had never once before crossed my mind." Schneider ended the tweet with an emoji of praying hands. Many of Schneider's followers, including some former Jeopardy! contestants, expressed their support in the comments. In late December, Schneider broke the record for most Jeopardy! wins by a woman, with a total of 23 and a winning streak of 10, earning $855,600 so far.

California: Police search Trans people more often, report says
LGBTQ Nation reported on January 3 that a new report from California's Racial and Identity Profiling Advisory Board says that California law enforcement officials conduct body searches on Black and Transgender people more often than white and cisgender people. The report found that Transgender women were 2.4 times more likely to be body-searched, and that police took actions against Trans people 62% of the time they were stopped, with both data points far above those of cisgender people. As for a potential response to the findings, the board suggested that law enforcement agencies adopt policies and LGBTQ-specific training to, among other things, keep officers from frisking people to figure out their sex.