So Did I Tell You the One About the Muslim Woman Who Went to the All-Female Driving School and Got a Transsexual Instructor?

A totally predictable outcome, of course.

What, you expected tolerance? Granted, I might be a bit unnerved seeing Dick Butkus in a tight skirt myself, but play along.

When a Muslim man contacted an all-female driving school to book a lesson for his learner wife, Emma Sherdley was not the kind of instructor he was expecting.

Although dressed in a skirt, it soon became apparent to the angry husband that his wife's teacher was not "all woman."

In fact, until a few years ago the 42-year-old was a married father-of-two called Andrew.

The transsexual underwent treatment to change sex and now has a "gender recognition certificate" to prove her legal status as a woman.

Unfortunately, that explanation didn't go down well with the angry husband.

His wife ended her two-hour lesson after an hour, claiming she had to go home to breast feed her baby, and her husband phoned the driving school threatening to sue.

He told Joanne Dixon, the owner of the West-Yorkshire based Laugh 'n Pass Driving School: "You have sent me a man, send me a proper female, how dare you send a man with a deep voice."

Laugh 'n Pass Driving School? Interesting name. Anyway, naturally the deeply religious seething man wasn't amused. In fact, this may come as a shock, but he's also paranoid, another common affliction amongst ROPers.

The man, from the Meadowhall district of Sheffield who has not been named, claimed the company deliberately sent a man disguised as a woman because he was Muslim.

Naturally. They're all out to get you, pal.

Miss Dixon said: "His attitude and behaviour was outrageous and has upset me and Emma and everyone else who works here. We are not racist, we are not sexist - if anyone was being so it was that man."

She has backed Emma, claiming no other learners have complained about the experienced driving instructor.

Emma, of Holmfirth, West Yorkshire, said his comments were "hurtful, offensive and deeply upsetting" and has made her think of quitting her job.

She said: "I always knew as a child that I was a woman stuck in a man's body. I tried hard to be a man, getting married and having children but it never worked and never would.

"For the past six years I have been what is correctly called "transitioned." I still have to undergo final surgery but legally I am a woman.