WHY GO TO AN ALL-GIRLS SCHOOL?

Trans activist launches legal action

EXPELLED: Briony has been banned from being near school DRESSING THE PARTS: Briony’s ready for PE LIKE any girl looking forward to starting big school, Briony Marshall has a smart uniform, a trendy “rucksack- style” satchel and a pencil case stuffed with new stationery.

There’s just one more thing Briony needs…

The lifting of a court order that prevents her from going within 100 yards of any school in the UK.

Briony – formerly a scaffolder called Derek – insists the ban is transphobic and denies her true gender identity.

She raged last night: “I turned up at school last September with all my new things, ready for lessons. I’d even put my PE kit on underneath in case we had games.

“But at the front gate there was a bit of a fuss and some shoving which resulted in me being led away. The next thing I know, I’m expelled before I’d even started at school.”

Briony said she went to a lawyer and is now claiming discrimination in court. She hopes the case will be sorted before the summer holidays are out – allowing her to join classes in September.

She said: “I’m particularly looking forward to games. I’m very good at sports.”

A spokesperson for the girls’ school in the north of England – which cannot be named for legal reasons – said: “Briony may say she is an 11- year- old girl but to me – and, more importantly, to the students – she looks like a 57- year- old man dressed in a girls’ school uniform.

“Now, we try to be as inclusive as we can, but if we let Briony anywhere near a class, never mind the girls’ changing room, there’s going to be a bloodbath down here.”