Morgan Averette, PhD

@thephdoll.bsky.social

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💃🏾She/her👩🏾‍🎓Sociology PhD (focuses on Gender/Sex, Race & Ethnicity, and Sports) 📚 Freelancer ✨Making science accessible✨ Views = my own linktr.ee/thephdollproject

In light of the Celeste Keaton verbal confrontation with two teenage protestors at the Indiana Fever - Seattle Storm game, folks need to keep in mind that a number of anti-trans figures and organizations are the equivalent of basketball players who flail and flop to sell contact regardless of whether there is any or not. And if there’s contact, even to a marginal degree, you can bet they’re going to sell it until they get a trip to the free throw line. Ultimately, people need to be more mindful of how bad faith anti-trans figures and organizations operate and also center the humanity of trans and non-binary folks.
The problem for me whenever I hear the phrase “Protect Women's Sports” and specifically the anti-trans tropes that are generally associated with it (not always), is that actual issues like sexual assault and violence from authority figures, sex testing and gender surveillance, threats to Title IX, and access to equitable resources are not really focused on to the same degree. Instead, mainstream attention on women's sports is consumed by a few things and one of those is the exclusion of those deemed not sufficiently feminine enough to play women's sports. This has always been a feature of women's sports. Yet, instead of pushing back against this and understanding the history of sex testing and gender policing in women’s sports, the anti-trans component of the “protect women's sports” crowd is centering white, cisgender, straight, and middle to upper class femininity as the foundation and standard for women's sports.
An image of the title of the Substack post from The PhDoll and a brief descripn of the post (it's a takeaway from ESPN's profile on Sophie Cunningham). Below the description is a Black woman wear copper red hair and red lipstick and her golden necklace with name (Morgan) on it. To the left of her face is the name of her Substack, which is The PhDoll Project.
A title page that features Morgan's face (she has curly braided copper red hair, red lipstick, and a white dress). The title of the article is West Virginia v. B. P. J. Pt. 1: The Supreme Court's Not So Supreme Logic on Biological Sex.
This is a picture of Morgan. She is a Black woman with wine red braided hair with curly ends. She is wearing a black blazer and a white tank top. She has a slight smile on her face.
A screenshot from my transcript showing I was awarded a PhD in Sociology on December 16, 2025.
Morgan is being hooded at her doctoral graduation ceremony in August 2025. She is wearing royal blue robes with orange trim and her school seals on her chest and a blue tam (hat).