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Sonia Sodha Profile picture
@soniasodha
Aug 15, 2020 • 4 tweets • 1 min read • Read on X
All universities should just agree to admit all young people who they have made conditional offers to, based on their teacher-predicted grades. (The idea they can reliably select the best candidates on the basis of a UCAS form or an interview is anyway a bit of a myth.)
It would do absolutely no damage to the system whatsoever and would be right and fair for a cohort of young people who have already been royally screwed over by the pandemic.
This piecemeal uni-by-uni approach is very unfair as it means a young person's chance of making their uni if their results have been downgraded is arbitrary, and it is understandably causing awful anxiety for young people.
(Sure, this will throw up difficult practical issues. But it is something govt & whole sector must work on in partnership. This is something that needs to happen, and the system needs to work around it.)

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Sonia Sodha Profile picture
Feb 27
The belief that sex is real and relevant in law is a protected belief under the Eq Act. I think it’s unfair to loosely accuse someone of mocking a group of campaigners without at the same time publishing the details of those allegations. I haven’t seen them published yet on X. (The allegation that someone mocked trans people, as opposed to campaigners for a particular belief system, would be more serious, but isn’t made here.)
This item lists 3 posts that show that the professor believes that sex matters in sports, and men shouldn't be able to self-identify into women's sports, but doesn't include evidence for the "mocking trans supporters" claim.
It's very unclear from the MHRA's statement why they have recused him from any involvement in the Pathways trial. There are some important questions for them:

1. Has he been recused because he has publicly expressed beliefs relating to the inclusion of men/those who've been through male puberty in female sport?
2. How does this relate to their general policies about public statements of positions on social media and a professional role relating to a particular clinical trial?
3. On what basis do they justify these policies and the way they apply them?
4. Can they demonstrate they have applied these policies evenly - including to other trials/areas, and in relation to people who have publicly expressed the view that men should be able to identify into women-only services, spaces and sports?
5. When do they consider that scientific fact (men have an unfair advantage in sport in relation to women) and evidence (that including men in women's sports is a safety risk) evolves into a belief for the purposes of any scientific notion of "neutrality"?

MHRA statement

gov.uk/government/new…
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Sonia Sodha Profile picture
Dec 10, 2025
15 surprising things about the Peggie v NHS Fife ET judgment - a thread 🧵

1. Top of the pops has to be mis/partial quoting of the Supreme Court judgment in a way that badly misrepresents what it said.

2. It also includes a quote supposedly from the Forstater EAT judgment that actually isn’t in the judgment. And went onto say that the Supreme Court in endorsing the Forstater judgment implicitly endorsed that nonexistent quote.Image
3. Its use of partial language (“assigned male at birth”, "trans female” to talk about a male doctor who identifies as trans) while also bending over backwards nog to use pronouns for the male doctor (“second respondent” appears in judgment > 1k times) is weirdly inconsistent.
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Sonia Sodha Profile picture
Dec 8, 2025
The Sandie Peggie v NHS Fife judgment has landed. A partial win for Peggie but I’m not sure the ET have understood the Supreme Court judgment here and so I expect it’s very likely to be appealed. (The following is from the press summary of the judgment) Image
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It’s hard to understand how an ET panel could arrive at the conclusion it’s lawful for a biological man to be in a female-only changing room at work post FWS. This will be v important aspect of any appeal.
Full judgment here

judiciary.uk/wp-content/upl…
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Sonia Sodha Profile picture
Nov 8, 2025
📻 On @BBCr4today this morning I discussed BBC bias on gender ideology - Justin Webb sanctioned for clarifying trans women are male while the BBC misleads viewers by pretending male killers are female - and why as a friend of the BBC I want them to sort it out - listen here!
And read this excellent column for more. It’s not just people on the right who worry about the BBC’s obvious lack of impartiality - its disrespect for and bias against women opposed to men self-identifying into female-only spaces is of huge concern to feminists on the left too.
Telegraph has picked up the comments, here

telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/11/0…
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Oct 31, 2025
The govt has asked for an impact assessment that could take a year before it lays the statutory guidance on Equality Act/gender/sex before Parliament. But it's guidance on law *as it already stands*

Cowardly and pathetic from a govt scared to implement the law on women's rights Image
Claire Coutinho 100% right on this. This is Starmer/Phillipson running scared of their own backbenchers rather than prioritising women's rights to single-sex services and sports via clear guidance that explains the law *as it exists*. Utterly pathetic.

thetimes.com/article/d7cd9e…Image
To be clear, it's 100% irrelevant whatever the EHRC regulatory impact assessment would say. It doesn't matter. The law is the law, and this is guidance to help organisations stay on right side of it. It's just the govt is too scared to back the law on women's rights. For shame.
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Oct 25, 2025
Completely disagree on this. Grooming gangs a particular phenomenon not looked at by Independent Inquiry on Child Sexual Abuse. Louise Casey was clear on need for specific inquiry including to look at why men from some cultural backgrounds over-represented in the data. People in authority don’t need another excuse to avoid the issues including why people looked the other way for so long.
For too long “there are other types of child sexual exploitation” (yes, there are and they’re truly awful) has been used to obscure proper investigation of grooming gangs including hard look at what role cultural factors and racism played. The police still aren’t even collecting the data we need on this. Not good enough for victims.
Yes there are commonalities with all forms of child sexual abuse, which I’ve written about. But there are partic aspects of grooming gang rape and abuse that have never been confronted by national investigation and will not be without a specific focus. It would be a very serious mistake to broaden it.
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