 However, this ruling was appealed to South Korea's Constitutional Court, which in 2011 upheld the law's constitutionality.In 2017, Amnesty International accused the military of engaging in a "gay witch hunt" to expose and punish gay personnel, by criminally charging 32 military personnel for "sodomy or other disgraceful conduct", including sentencing a gay soldier to six months imprisonment for having consensual sex with another gay soldier in a private place.In January 2020, staff sergeant Byun Hui-su was dismissed from the military for her transgender status and undergoing sex reassignment surgery.