Transitive action and elementary abelian 2-group of stabilizer

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Show that no subgroup $G$ of $S_5$ acts transitively on $X=\{1,2,3,4,5\}$ in such a way that $G_x$ is an elementary abelian 2-group for any $x\in X$

I want to solve this problem. I decided to use proof by contradiction.

By orbit-stabilizer theorem and with transitive condition, $|X|=|Gx|=|G:G_x|$. Then $|G|=|X||Gx|=5|Gx|$.

By Lagrange theorem with above condition, $|G|$ can be $5, 10, 20, 40$. But there is no progress from here.

Help me how to solve this problem!