 Michael Harrington, SRN News. A federal appeals court refuses to lift a judge's order temporarily blocking the Biden administration's new Title IX rule designed to promote transgenderism in schools. A panel of judges from the Sixth 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, Ohio, Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia.