The Queensland health minister has issued a new order banning the prescription of puberty blockers for transgender patients, just hours after the state’s supreme court ruled the government’s first attempt was unlawful.

On Tuesday, Justice Peter Callaghan ruled in favour of a challenge by the parent of a transgender child, judging that the January directive establishing the ban was made improperly and was unlawful.

He ruled that the health director general, David Rosengren, failed to properly consult the executives of the state’s hospitals and health services, as required under the state law, before he issued the order banning transgender hormone therapies for new patients aged under 18 while an independent review into the use of puberty blockers and hormone therapy for minors exper

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