First-ever trans contestant makes it to ‘Jeopardy! Tournament of Champions’

A jury in Missouri awarded transgender student, RJ Appleberry, $4 million in damages on December 13, after a school district refused to let him use male washrooms and locker rooms. The Jackson County Jury also awarded him $175,000 in compensatory damages. Madeline Johnson, one of the first openly transgender attorneys in Missouri, and a lawyer for the Appleberry, said her client was “ecstatic” over  the unanimous ruling. “He was very excited, very happy,” Johnson said.

The “Jeopardy!” Professors Tournament has revealed its first-ever champion.

GSC Game World has announced it will be selling an NFT that will enable one player to become the “first ever metahuman” in Stalker 2: Heart Of Chernobyl.The auction, which takes place in January, will see players bidding on an NFT that’ll allow the owner to recreate their face as a ‘metahuman’ NPC in the Stalker 2 metaverse using photogrammetry.

Georgia’s prison system has agreed to pay $2.2 million to the parents of a transgender inmate who died by suicide in her cell in 2017 — after officials ignored her threats and waited several minutes before getting medical help, according to documents filed in a civil lawsuit.The settlement, first reported by CNN, was reached on Dec.

Chalkbeat and the WGA East have reached their first collective bargaining agreement, which has been unanimously ratified by the digital news organization’s 30-member bargaining unit that includes writers, editors and video producers.

go elf themselves this holiday season. Enterprising “Chief Elf” Sophie, a 15-year-old from Cobble Hill, told The Post she is hosting the city’s first-ever ElfCon this weekend, an event she billed as a “kid-friendly hot cocoa crawl” — or a journey that’s just a little less jolly than NYC’s annual, boozy SantaCon.The 10th-grader, who chose not to reveal her last name for privacy reasons, hopes the event will attract families dressed as elves for a tour of the city’s finest winter dens when it

EXCLUSIVE: Filmocracy has announced its non-profit, The Filmocracy Foundation, is funding the first round of fellowships in its worldwide film festival mentorship program for underrepresented film festivals. Co-founder Paul Jun and chief product officer Kasia Kaczmarczyk announced today.

A trans athlete is setting records in the pool in her first season with the University of Pennsylvania’s women swimming team.Earlier this month, Lia Thomas won three events at the Zippy Invitational at the University of Akron, setting pool, program and meet records.

Jeopardy! champ Amy Schneider has opened up about her experience coming out as transgender — and why William Shakespeare helped her come to terms with her gender identity.Schneider has, as of writing, won 13 games in a row and amassed more than $536,000 in winnings.In addition to becoming the first openly transgender player to qualify for Jeopardy!‘s Tournament of Champions, Schneider is also moving up the rankings of all-time Jeopardy! greats, placing in the top 10 for consecutive games won,

A massive 16,000 sq. ft 'affordable yet luxury' gym will open its doors in Denton later this month.

Alessandra Ambrosio and Candice Swanepoel glammed up the red carpet for the inaugural Red Sea International Film Festival on Monday night (December 6) in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.

A film festival is about more than just the films and the festival center. It is about the location, the journey, the experience. Here on Deadline we’ll be bringing you updates on what it’s like to be on the ground at the inaugural Red Sea International Film Festival, Saudi Arabia’s first ever film festival. 

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Cardi B is celebrating her new job!

Big Apple boss! Kelly Bensimon was a model in her teen years, traveling the world before settling down in New York City.

“RuPaul’s Drag Race” is returning for its 14th fabulous season, and the new cast of queens competing for drag glory have been revealed.

K.J. Yossman “Doctor Who” star Peter Capaldi and Raindance founder Elliot Grove have been honored at the first ever British Short Film Awards.Capaldi was given the Icon Award while Grove was handed the Impact AwardThe British Short Film Awards, in partnership with the HearArt Project, were hosted by presenter Alex Zane on Friday evening.

Entertainment Weekly, Reeves, 57, said, “I think the studio wasn’t ready for that.”Director Lilly Wachowski explained in a 2020 interview with Netflix that Switch was portrayed by a female in both movie worlds. “The corporate world wasn’t ready for it,” she said at the time.