A teenager was prescribed dangerously high levels of hormones that could have resulted in sudden death, a judge said as he warned of the perils of online transgender treatments.

Sir Andrew McFarlane, the president of the family division of the High Court, said in a ruling on Wednesday that there was very significant concern over children accessing cross-hormone treatment from any offshore, online, unregulated private clinic.

McFarlane had heard evidence from an expert witness that the dosage of hormones prescribed to the teenager by GenderGP after just a single online consultation with a counsellor was so high it was highly abnormal and frankly negligent.

Jacky Hewitt, a consultant paediatric endocrinologist based in Melbourne, told the court that in 20 years of practice she had never

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