The teenager, referred to as J, was born a female and has previously been diagnosed with autism as well as having a history of anorexia and self-harm.
Sir Andrew McFarlane gave the warning after J, 16, was prescribed testosteroneThe most senior family judge in England has issued a warning over private gender clinics after an autistic teenager was prescribed 'dangerously high' doses of hormones.
The teenager was born a female and has previously been diagnosed with autism as well as having a history of anorexia and self-harm. It also heard expert evidence from an endocrinologist who said Gender GP had adopted 'a highly abnormal and frankly negligent approach'. 'The level of testosterone in the blood was 'dangerously high' and that, apart from the potential for adverse long-term consequences of such a level, J was 'presently at risk of sudden death due to thromboembolic disease'.
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