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man dressed as a woman was caught in the women's bathroom.

He said that he usually wore women's clothes and could not go to the men's restroom.

This case is under investigation, and LGBTI people are experiencing great inconvenience in using public toilets.



Reporter Jeong Ban-seok reported.



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police received a report from a woman who tried to use the bathroom in a shopping mall in Goyang, Gyeonggi.



It was said that the person who went into the bathroom wearing a skirt looked like a man.




The police arrived and searched the inside of the shopping mall and arrested a person who matched the impression.



As a result of the police investigation, Mr. A in his 30s entered the women's restroom wearing a skirt and a wig.




Police suspected of a sexual offense checked cell phones and toilets, but found no specific suspects.



Mr. A confessed that he usually wears women's clothes, and the people around him made the same statement.



Person A claimed that she could not use the men's restroom as a woman.



In fact, in our society, there are people who cannot easily enter the men's and women's restrooms due to problems such as appearance or sexual identity.



[Kim Ji-hak/Director of Korea Diversity Research Institute: There are cases where people report that they look like a man when they use the women's restroom. If you use the men's restroom, you're sexually harassed because you look like a woman, or even sexually assaulted. I can't even drink water well when I go out... .]



Recently, a court has ruled that blocking transgender women from using the women's restroom is discrimination on the basis of sexual identity.



Because of this problem, gender-neutral toilets introduced earlier in the United States and other countries are considered an alternative, but there is still a long way to go in Korea.



The KCTU has recently installed gender-neutral toilets that can only be used by one person on the three floors of the public transport union building.




[Jeong Da-jeong / Deputy General Manager of Public Transport Union: The toilet for everyone is a toilet made without anyone excluded from the existing gender-segregated toilets. It is used well without any threat to safety and without inconvenience.]



However, with the exception of some universities, companies and public institutions are not even discussing its introduction.



(Video coverage: Kim Yong-woo, video editing: Lee Seung-jin, photo provided by Lee Ho-rim and Kim Seung-seop)