A number of doctors have claimed a service under which adolescents with gender dysphoria are given puberty-suppressing hormone blockers is “unsafe” and must be immediately stopped, but their concerns were suppressed.

The treatment is provided in Ireland by flying in two clinicians from an NHS trust in London to run clinics at Crumlin Children’s Hospital.

The Irish Independent, however, has reported at least three doctors who work with gender disorders expressed grave concerns over the service provided by the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust at Crumlin.

The concerns over standards of clinical care and governance were raised at a meeting of doctors and hospital officials in Crumlin last March.

These included that children had been started on hormone treatment when they did not appear to be suitable.

However, the issues raised and calls by the doctors for the service to be “terminated with immediate effect” were omitted from draft minutes of the meeting.