Effective Date
August, 2025
Office of Primary Responsibility
Office of Student Life
Summary of Policy
Allegheny College is committed to having safe and accessible campus restroom facilities. We recommend that individuals make choices about restroom usage based on their own level of comfort and their gender identity or expression.
Reason for Policy
There are many students and employees who feel safer and are better served by all gender restrooms. Everyone is at their best academically and socially when they can access safe facilities on campus. Further, Allegheny’s non-discrimination policy includes gender identity and expression as protected classes. All gender restrooms are an expression of that policy.
Policy Statement
There are single stall restrooms in most campus buildings. All single stall restrooms are all gender restrooms, providing space for anyone, regardless of gender identity or expression, to use that restroom. There are also all gender multi-user restrooms, meaning that multiple people can be in that restroom, regardless of gender identity or expression in some of the buildings on campus.
Definitions
Single stall restroom: Restrooms with a toilet and sink for people of any gender. Intended for one person or one person and their attendant as needed.
Multi-user restrooms: Restrooms with multiple stalls and sinks that may have urinals as well.
Single Gender Restrooms: Restrooms for only one gender usage, based on an individual’s own level of comfort and their gender identity or expression.
All Gender Restrooms: Restrooms that anyone can use, regardless of gender identity.
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