Jane Doe works for the Defense Intelligence Agency; when she was an intern at the DIA, she competed in the Miss United Nations pageant, but as Miss China; according to the Complaint in Doe v. Austin,
Uncertainty about her employment … led her to be a late entrant. By the time Ms. Doe entered the pageant, the representative for the United States had already been selected. The pageant organizers recommended that she participate as Miss China; the previous year's Miss China had been an American citizen, someone that Ms. Doe knew personally.
Ms. Doe agreed to participate as Miss China based on her heritage, not her nationality, paying all the participation expenses out of her own personal funds and accepting no money from any domestic or foreign entity. She did not win the competition.
Doe claims that (among other things) she was subject to higher scrutiny at the DIA because of this:
