US — Idaho Falls, Idaho. On April 19, 2016, Target, the second largest department store retailer in the United States, changed its store policy to permit people to use fitting rooms and restrooms based on the gender role they identify with, as opposed to biological sex.

Less than a month later, a man who perceives of himself as a woman entered a fitting room in a Target store in Idaho Falls, and used an iPhone to record the 18-year-old girl who was changing into a swimsuit in the stall beside the one he was occupying.

That man was 43-year-old Shauna Patricia Smith, who was born male, and named Sean Patrick Smith at birth.

After his arrest for voyeurism, prosecutors discovered video on Mr Smith’s phone of women and a possibly underage girl undressing. Mr Smith admitted to having made other voyeuristic videos of women and girls undressing without their knowledge or consent, stating that he had done so for “the same reason men go online to look at pornography.”

Mr Smith’s teen victim said in her Victim Impact Statement that she felt dirty, humiliated and “emotionally mutilated” by his voyeuristic intrusion of her privacy in the Target dressing room, and has suffered anxiety as a result.

At the time of the incident, “I started to sob inside the dressing room. I was hyperventilating and scared,” the victim said. “I’ve always supported the transgender community, but felt betrayed. I have yet to go to a Target again, and haven’t been inside any public restrooms or dressing rooms.”

Mr Smith pleaded guilty and was sentenced to five years in prison, with the possibility of parole after two years. He must also paid for a year of the victim’s counseling.

Target said in a statement that it is committed to “creating a safe and secure shopping environment.”