Gender Neutral Bathrooms Unveiled Today at City Hall

The City of Cathedral City along with the Transgender Community Coalition unveiled new signs today designating single stall restrooms at City Hall as “gender neutral.” Cathedral City recently passed an ordinance that goes into effect on Saturday, January 9, 2016 that requires single stall public restrooms in Cathedral City to be re-labeled as “gender-neutral.”

Many businesses throughout the city currently offer two, single-stall bathrooms – generally one for men and the other for women. The recently passed ordinance, the first-of-its-kind in the Coachella Valley, allows men, women, and transgender individuals to use either restroom in private and without being stigmatized. The relabeling eliminates current wait lines for the restroom of one gender if an opposite gender restroom is available. It is also beneficial for a parent who may need to assist an opposite-sex child without forcing a little boy or girl to enter an opposite-sex labeled restroom. The ordinance does not affect multi-stall public gender restrooms.

Businesses located within Cathedral City can apply for a $25 grant to help replace former signs that were designated as a single stall bathroom with one particular gender. The simple one-page grant application can be downloaded at http://www.cathedralcity.gov/home/showdocument?id=5702

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