It is an irony that a school named after St Paul should have an ethos that so radically contradicts the Apostle’s views on the role of women. St Paul’s Girls’ School in Hammersmith is avowedly feminist, encouraging its pupils to go out into the world and not simply equal the achievements of men but surpass them. To judge by its academic results, it is the best school in England, and the list of distinguished Old Paulinas is impressive. But now this feminist ethos has run into trouble: around 10 sixth-form girls have decided not just to be equal with men and surpass them, but to be men, or, since they are not yet adults, boys; or, if not boys, then “gender neutral” – in other words, not girls.