The Transgender Ban in the Military on "Your Weekly Constitutional"
Is the ban on military service for transgender people unconstitutional?\xa0 Eric\n\nMerriam thinks so.\xa0 He\u2019s a law professor at the University of Central\n\nFlorida who has worked for the Air Force both as a Judge Advocate General Corps\n\nofficer and as a professor at the Air Force Academy.\xa0 He thinks the ban,\n\nallegedly justified by something called \u201cunit cohesion,\u201d is actually based upon\n\nunconstitutional animus aimed at trans people."\n\nYour Weekly Constitutional is hosted by Constitutional Law Professor Stewart Harris. Stewart teaches Constitutional Law at the Appalachian School of Law (ASL) in Grundy, Virginia. In 2011, Professor Harris created a public radio show,\xa0Your Weekly Constitutional, which is produced at WETS-FM, the NPR affiliate in Johnson City, Tennessee, and syndicated nationally.\xa0 YWC is underwritten by the Robert H. Smith Center for the Constitution at Montpelier, the historic home of the Father of the Constitution, James Madison.