Washington (CNN) Actress Laverne Cox on Sunday used her time on the 2019 Emmys red carpet to discuss an upcoming Supreme Court case that will decide whether federal employment law that bans discrimination based on sex does the same based on transgender status.

"When I got my Emmy nomination this year, my third one, I was like this is weird. I thought, there has to be a bigger reason and I thought, OK, maybe it's about this case and maybe its about raising awareness so that everyone knows our lives are in danger," Cox told E! News on the red carpet.

"And a lot of people aren't talking about this case and it has implications for the LGBTQ community, but it has implications for women and anyone who doesn't conform to someone else's idea of like how you should be a man or a woman or both or neither," she added.

Laverne Cox carries a clutch bag calling attention to an upcoming Supreme Court ruling as she walks the red carpet at the Emmys.

The case, which will be heard on October 8, marks one of the most important cases of the upcoming Supreme Court term. Last month, the Justice Department reiterated to the Court that it does not believe that federal employment law that bans discrimination based on sex encompasses discrimination based on transgender status.

Title VII, of the Civil Rights Act, that bars discrimination based on sex "does not bar discrimination because on transgender status," Solicitor General Noel Francisco argued in a brief filed with the Supreme Court last month.

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