A private gender clinic that gave sex-change hormones to a 12-year-old has been left in limbo after both its doctors were placed under investigation by the General Medical Council (GMC).

Helen Webberley, founder of Gender GP in Wales, was convicted in court last month of operating gender treatment services without a licence. She was already subject to a GMC investigation and is banned from treating transgender patients unsupervised.

She announced that her husband Mike, also a GP, would take over the service to give trans clients “the highest standards of care”. Last week, however, the GMC began to investigate Mike Webberley. It has banned him from prescribing sex-change hormones over the internet, one of Gender GP’s main lines of business, and said any such patients