 Mike Harrington, SRN News. A federal appeals court has refused to lift a judge's order temporarily blocking the Biden administration's new Title IX rule designed to promote transgenderism in the schools. A panel of judges from the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals is keeping in place a preliminary injunction issued last month by a federal district judge in Kentucky. That order blocked the new rule in six states, Kentucky, Indiana, and Ohio, as well as Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia.