Queensland Health Minister Tim Nicholls has issued a new directive to ban public doctors from prescribing puberty blockers to adolescents with gender dysphoria.

It came just six hours after a judge ruled the previous freeze was unlawful.

On Tuesday, Supreme Court justice Peter Callaghan set aside Queensland's controversial pause on the practice, which was issued in January by Queensland Health director-general David Rosengren.

Court overturns Queensland's puberty blocker ban

Queensland controversially barred public doctors from prescribing puberty blockers to patients aged under 18 earlier this year.

In a 14-page written judgement, he accepted arguments that Dr Rosengren's health service directive was unlawful because it was made without adequate consultation and at the direction of

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