Telegraph - Daughters excluded from peerage due to gender outraged by trans woman standing for Lords seat
Jump to content UK NEWS WEBSITE OF THE YEAR News Sport Business Opinion Ukraine Money Life Style Travel Culture Puzzles Log in See all News Daughters excluded from peerage due to gender outraged by trans woman standing for Lords seat Matilda Simon, Baron of Wythenshawe, allowed to stand in by-election under a legal loophole - because she was born a man By Ewan Somerville 13 May 2023 • 6:13pm Aristocrat daughters have told a baron hoping to be the first transgender peer that they “can’t have it both ways”. Matilda Simon, the 3rd Baron of Wythenshawe , is tipped to stand in a by-election to replace the Liberal Democrat Viscount Falkland, voted on by all sitting peers, with entries closing on May 15. If successful, they would become the only woman, self-identified, among the chamber’s 92 hereditary peers, despite holding a title because they were born a man. Daughters who have been shunned from their families’ hereditary lines because they are not men have called on Matilda Simon to “s