The Supreme Court delivered a resounding victory to the nations LGBTQ community on Monday, with Justice Neil Gorsuch declaring that it is clear that gay and transgender employees are protected by federal anti-discrimination laws.

The answer is clear, Gorsuch wrote in the courts opinion of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, known as Title VII , which prohibits job discrimination because of sex.

An employer who fires an individual for being homosexual or transgender fires that person for traits or actions it would not have questioned in members of a different sex. Sex plays a necessary and undisguisable role in the decision, exactly what Title VII forbids, he stated.