After 16 years of attempts, the New York State Legislature has finally passed a bill that protects transgender people from discrimination.

In 100-40 and 42-19 votes on Tuesday morning, respectively, the State Assembly and the State Senate voted to pass the Gender Expression Non-Discrimination Act, or GENDA, which adds gender identity as a protected class in the areas of housing, employment, and public accommodations.

“This is truly an historic day,” Eric Lesh, executive director of the LGBT Bar Association of Greater New York, told The Daily Beast. “We are finally welcoming a fairer and more equal New York because of the bold and tireless leadership of trans and gender non-conforming New Yorkers.”

GENDA, which Governor Andrew Cuomo has pledged to sign into law, will solidify protections for the estimated 78,600 transgender adults who live in the state, according to the Williams Institute at the UCLA School of Law—especially those who live outside of New York City, where the human rights commission has had similar protections in place since 2002.

Gov. Cuomo, who commended the passage of GENDA shortly after the Senate vote, signed a 2015 executive order that barred anti-transgender discrimination—but as the Trump administration has shown, LGBT protections that aren’t enacted through legislation are all too easily rolled back.