The anti-trans Jeopardy panic reveals the misogyny in gender critical feminism

Criticism of trans Jeopardy champion Amy Schneider show that gender critical feminists seemingly believe that women are biologically inferior to men

Earlier this week, transgender Jeopardy champion Amy Schneider was officially celebrated as the winningest woman in the shows history. Predictably, this announcement set off the gender critical Twitter crowd with a completely foreseeable set of ridiculous proclamations

“She’s stealing a woman’s place on the show,” “she’s taking money away from female competitors,” “there should be a separate trans division on the show.”

All are clearly ridiculous and exceedingly petty displays of overt transphobia. The reality is that Schneider’s participation, and success hurts no one. She has shown a mastery of a very difficult trivia game show rarely seen before, regardless of her gender.

But the reaction from the gender criticals has been unintentionally revealing. Calling for a separate trans category and claiming that trans women have a biological advantage over cisgender women in… a trivia game… goes to show how much contempt these self-identified feminists have for women.

Of course women aren’t inherently worse at trivia games. There’s no evidence that women lack intellectual prowess compared to men and saying so out loud in order to own the…