It happened after all! A 43-year-old man was found in a women’s bath at a hot spring facility in Nagashima Town, Kuwana, Mie Prefecture… The arrested man said, “My heart is a woman, what’s wrong?”

It has only been 20 days since the Supreme Court’s decision (by Chief Justice Saburo Tokura) that the requirement for gender change surgery is unconstitutional, and a case like this has already occurred. On the 13th, the Mie Prefectural Police Kuwana Police Station arrested Hayato Shimada (43), an unemployed man from Kasugai City, Aichi Prefecture, for red-handed breaking into a building, for taking a bath at a women’s bath at a hot spring facility in Nagashima Town, Kuwana Town, Mie Prefecture. . She stated, “I’m a woman at heart, so I don’t understand at all why I’m not allowed to take women’s baths.” This spring, the Kishida administration passed the LGBT Act. This law itself only had aspects of the Understanding Promotion Act, but in July 2023, the Supreme Court (Chief Justice Yukihiko Imazaki) ruled that it is illegal to not allow transgender women working at the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry to use the women’s restroom. I made a judgment. Furthermore, on October 25, 2023, the court ruled that she can change her gender on her family register even if she has not undergone sex reassignment surgery. Immediately after this ruling was made, I said on this channel, “This decision is extremely problematic. There will definitely be cases of abuse in the future, and cases that will be discussed in court.” It looks like those fears have already come true. Now, what will happen to Suspect Shimada in the future? What I fear is that the findings of fact will become ambiguous, depending on whether Shimada is released pending punishment or whether he is not prosecuted. I would like the Tsu District Public Prosecutors Office to indict Shimada. And we should get a precedent from the Supreme Court that says, “If you look like a man, even if you identify as female, entering a women’s bath is considered a crime of trespassing into a building.” That is exactly how the judiciary should fulfill its responsibility for causing chaos in society. If this is not done, there is no doubt that similar incidents will continue in the future, causing chaos in society and causing inconvenience to the majority of women.