A federal appeals court on Tuesday dealt a blow to Florida’s Stop WOKE Act, ruling that the state cannot restrict what professors at public colleges and universities teach about race and gender.

In a 2-1 decision, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit upheld a lower court’s preliminary injunction blocking enforcement of the law at Florida’s public colleges and universities, concluding that the state cannot dictate classroom viewpoints by treating professors’ speech as government speech under the First Amendment.