Inclusive Restroom Program

Cal Poly is committed to ensuring that everyone on campus has access to safe and inclusive restrooms. We acknowledge that gendered restrooms (i.e., restrooms labeled “women’s” or “men’s”) can exacerbate stress, discomfort, and lack of safety for people who are transgender, nonbinary, and/or gender non-conforming.

For some history, when AB1732 was passed in 2017, the university renovated all single-occupant restrooms to All Gender. In September 2022, California Governor Newsom signed Senate Bill 1194 Public Restrooms: Building Standards (SB 1194 – Allen) into law. SB 1194 allows for multi-stall All Gender bathrooms in cities that choose to pass such an ordinance.

Student activism in the 2022-2023 school year alerted Cal Poly to the need for more All Gender restrooms across campus. Based on a public listening session held in January of 2023, participants agreed to move forward with a plan that increased the accessibility of All Gender restrooms on campus.

To move this initiative forward with different perspectives and experiences, the Inclusive Restroom Committee was formed. The Inclusive Restroom Committee is co-chaired by Joy Pedersen, Dean of Students and Michelle Chariton, Associate Director of Capital Projects, and includes students, staff, and faculty (see chart below for participant names). The Inclusive Restroom Committee met regularly from March – June 2023 to identify 15 additional existing multi-stall restrooms that will undergo signage changes to become All Gender restrooms.

If interested, please take the survey below to share your feedback on this program. We encourage responses from transgender, nonbinary, gender non-conforming, and/or disabled people. Individual survey responses will remain anonymous and will be accessible only by members of the Inclusive Restroom Committee, with the purpose of designing and executing a plan for more accessible and inclusive restrooms on campus. Broader themes that arise from survey results may be shared with campus partners working towards creating a more inclusive campus climate.

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Inclusive Restroom Committee

Name	Pronouns	Department
Joy Pedersen	she/her	Dean of Students
Michelle Chariton	she/they	Pride Faculty Staff Association / Facilities Management & Development
Beya Makekau		Office of University Diversity and Inclusion
Jill Baxter	she/her	ASI, Inc.
Cat Placencia	she/her	University Housing
Angel Badillo	they/them/theirs	Pride Center
Cheryl Flores		Native American & Indigenous Cultural Center
Alexia Arani	she/they	Faculty, Women's Gender, and Queer Studies
Alexia Arani	she/they	Faculty, Women's Gender, and Queer Studies
Jennifer Kearny Bates	she/her	Faculty, English
Cristian Reyes	he/him/'el	Undergraduate student, College of Liberal Arts
Georgia Alley		Undergraduate student, College of Architecture & Environmental Design
Elias Cate		Undergraduate student, College of Liberal Arts
Kevin Kerr		Undergraduate student, College of Liberal Arts
Ryan Carter	they/them	Undergraduate student, Liberal Arts and Engineering Studies
Mikala Purugganan	she/her	Undergraduate student, BioResource & Agricultural Engineering
Ashley Rios		Undergraduate student, Orfalea College of Business
Ricky		Undergraduate student, College of Agriculture, Food, and Environmental Sciences
Megan Massey	she/her	Staff/ Pride Faculty Staff Association

For more resources related to diversity and inclusion in University Housing, please click here.

All Gender Restroom Map