Brexit, Immigration, & Transgender Athletes: Is It Fair?

Posted on June 24, 2016

Friday on Howell & Yarbrough, Catherine talked about Brexit, Immigration, & Transgender Athletes.

-Dr. Richard Pacelle Jr., director of the Political Science department at the University of Tennessee explains what Brexit means to Americans and discusses what the future could hold for Great Britain, the European Union, and the global economy.

-The Supreme Court ruled (by not ruling) on the president’s plan to expand deportation protection to about 4 million more immigrants in the U.S. illegally

-There was a transgender woman who played basketball on a women’s community college team. She was 6’6″ and 230 lbs. There is an MMA fighter who is a transgender woman who damaged a competitor’s orbital bone in a fight. Is it fair for transgender women to compete against women who were born female?

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