Justices ruled in a 6-3 vote that title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prevents employers from discriminating on the basis of sex and other reasons, protects LGBT workers from biases held by an employer, the Associated Press reports.

Justice Neil Gorsuch wrote that the firing of a person for being homosexual or transgender means that that person was fired for traits that would not apply to people who are not homosexual or transgender, which means sex indeed played a role in the firing - a direct violation of Title VII.

The latest supreme court ruling is likely to have an impact on the estimated 8.1 million LGBT people in America’s workforce. That’s because most states fail to protect LGBT people from job discrimination.