For a long time, it didn’t occur to Sharma that she could make a change to the grooming standards because the Army’s rules about the way soldiers can and can’t wear their hair historically have been determined by “white men in the military [who] hate change,” Sharma said.
In late February, Judge Miller ruled the male-only selective service draft unconstitutional. Miller’s ruling was a declaratory judgment, which means it does not order the government how exactly to amend the draft to make it constitutional, but it is still significant.