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Sonia Sodha Profile picture
@soniasodha
Aug 17, 2020 • 4 tweets • 1 min read • Read on X
This is what I would do with university admissions if the plan is to revert to teacher-predicted grades were I in government (there are legal issues but I think every potential solution has legal issues?) (1/4)
1. Lift cap on admissions for 2020 and allow universities to determine their own intake numbers.

2. Ask most selective/over subscribed unis to prioritise young people from disadvantaged backgrounds for entry based on teacher-predicted grades. (2/4)
3. Ask them to allocate remaining places for this year by lottery. Those unsuccessful in lottery can opt to defer or go to insurance offer.

4. Fully compensate those less selective unis that as a result can’t fill places. Expensive but fair. (3/4)
Sure there’s lots of practical issues with this... but I think there are with any resolution. Let’s see what govt say about this at 4pm. My fear is nothing (4/4)

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Sonia Sodha Profile picture
May 20
Reading through the @EHRC draft changes to its statutory code that it is consulting on from today. Some helpful examples including for those who think pre pubescent boys pose a comparable risk to women’s privacy safety and dignity as grown men who identify as female (!!!) Image
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And some more, showing the toilet question while not the most important implication of the Supreme Court judgment really isn’t as impossible as detractors like to make out Image
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Apr 23
Wow. This Guardian editorial on the Supreme Court ruling gets so much wrong, including factually, and smears a public servant who’s only doing her job. 🧵 Image
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1. Lord Sumption is completely wrong that the Supreme Court’s statement of the law doesn’t mandate service providers to exclude trans women from female-only services. If you’re operating female-only services now they must not admit men who identify as female. Or they can be mixed sex.
2. Kishwer Falkner’s tone was not “implying compulsion”. She was stating the law, as above. It’s really unfair for a newspaper to take this tone, implying this was personal preference rather than the actual law.
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Apr 20
The reaction to women celebrating the @ForWomenScot legal victory only serves as a reminder that while the law is the law our culture remains dead-set against women who say no

My final column for the Observer. (Read on for what's next...) Image
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You can read the full column here.

theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
One of my final editorials for the Observer is also on the Supreme Court judgment. I'm proud our paper recognises the bravery and resilience of the three women @ForWomenScot who forced the highest court in the land to clarify the law on women's rights.

theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
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Jan 6
Hate how much we’re now talking about Elon Musk and the far right rather than how to prevent child sexual abuse and rape. It’s so very much easier to talk about the first than the second.
There really are still unanswered questions about the extent of the sexual abuse of children by groups of men that victims of recent years deserve answers to. The independent inquiry on child sexual abuse was explicit it could not answer that.
In recent days I’ve wondered how I’d feel if I were one of the victims. I don’t think any political intervention on this in the last couple of days has been good enough. I think Labour over claiming on the role of IICSA in relation to grooming gangs is at best insensitive.
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Sep 1, 2024
Why I don’t think this is a strong argument against the HE (freedom of speech) provisions🧵

1. Production of knowledge is the core purpose of universities. Academic freedom/academic free speech fundamental to that. At the mo there’s no effective means to enforce existing rights.
2. Academic freedom/free speech key to quality in the HE sector. You can’t have latter without former!
3. There is already a well-established & better understood regime for enforcing disability and other PC rights under the EqAct. Of course aspects onerous & imperfect. See this.
4. Seems weird to argue we should not be striving for or developing best practice around empowering ECHR academic freedom/FOS rights because of issues in other areas. In fact I’d say if the OfS scheme works could be a model for dispute resolution pre legal action in those area.
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Jun 28, 2024
Another case of a nurse suing a Scottish NHS Trust for failing to provide single-sex changing facilities. The facts will be established by the employment tribunal, but this issue raises serious qu for NHS & for Labour on its position on the Equality Act.

thetimes.com/uk/scotland/ar…
I know I sound like a broken record but it simply isn't sustainable for the Labour party position on this to be "but the Equality Act's clear!" - when what is happening in the courts & in the real world, not to mention statements from @EHRC, show very clearly that it isn't.
Also I *really* wish this scenario would get put to politicians rather than it always being about toilets. Shouldn't the Eq Act be amended so it becomes clear that it's sex discrimination not to provide female employees with female-only changing facilities? If not, why not?
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