February 23, 2021
On-campus Gender Neutral Bathrooms
Since opening in 2004, the Q Center consistently advocates for increasing UW’s number of gender-neutral, parent-friendly, and physically accessible bathrooms on our Seattle campus. We worked intensively with a very receptive University of Washington administration in order to develop a comprehensive and sustainable plan to increase our numbers of accessible bathroom facilities. In the spring of 2011, the Q Center and the Office of Student Life, secured capital financing through the Office of Planning and Budget to start a bathroom renovations project at the center of UW’s Seattle campus. This renovation project assures that there will be a gender-neutral, accessible bathroom in almost every building within a centralized campus.
Find the nearest gender-neutral bathroom to you here.
Or peruse the list below of current* gender-neutral bathrooms on campus:
| Aerospace Engineering Research Building (AERB) | Basement, single-stall with lock; 1st floor, single-stall w/lock, labeled women’s; 2nd floor, unisex single-stall w/lock, wheelchair accessible; 3rd floor, single-stall w/lock, labeled women’s; 4th floor, single-stall w/lock, labeled women’s |
| Anderson Hall (AND) | 2nd floor, single-stall, labeled “Private Faculty/Staff Bathroom” |
| Architecture Hall (ARC) | 2nd floor, 1 stall, wheelchair accessible |
| Art Building (ART) | 1st floor, Room 111; Basement, one near Stair #4 and one near Room 9 |
| Benson Hall (BNS) | 3rd floor rest area, 2 single stalls |
| Brooklyn Building | 1st floor, Room 129, unisex restroom |
| Burke Museum | Main exhibit floor, unisex restroom |
| Communications Building (CMU) | Basement, 1 urinal, and 1 stall |
| Cunningham Hall | 1st floor, Rooms 102 and 201, accessible unisex restrooms |
| Denny Hall (DEN) | gender-neutral bathroom |
| Eagleson Hall (EGL) | Gendered bathrooms that could be converted to gender-neutral; 1st floor, Room 168, single-stall, labeled women’s; 3rd floor, Room 309, single-stall, labeled women’s |
| Engineering Library | 4th floor, single occupancy ADA restrooms with locks |
| eScience Studio – WRF Data Science Studio | 6th floor, 2 single-stall unisex bathrooms with locks |
| Fishery Science Building (FSH) | 1st, 2nd, and 3rd floors; 2 single stalls on each |
| Foege Hall | Foege N402 |
| Gould Hall (GLD) | Basement, single occupancy with changing station |
| Gowen Hall (GWN) | 2nd floor, single-stall |
| Guthrie Hall (GTH) | Basement floor, single-stall |
| Hall Health | Ground floor, 1st floor; 2 single occupancy gender-neutral bathrooms on each; A-wing, rooms A312 and A313; B-Wing, rooms B136; D-wing, room D048; F-wing, rooms F044, F668, and F669; G-wing, rooms G162 and G164; I-wing, rooms I303 and I403; RR-wing, room RR113; T-wing, rooms T200G, T266, T268, T336, T749, and T751 |
| Health Sciences Building (HSB) | 2nd floor, T-wing, 3 single occupancy rooms with locks |
| Hughes Penthouse Theatre (HPT) | 20H (off the lobby), unisex restroom |
| Husky Union Building (HUB) | 3rd floor, single-stall, wheelchair accessible |
| Hutchinson Hall (HUT) | 2nd floor, 2 gender-neutral bathrooms |
| Isaacson Hall (ISA) | 2 single stalls, not wheelchair accessible |
| Mackenzie Hall (MKZ) | Room 340, 1 stall and 1 urinal with a lock on the door |
| McCarty Hall | 1st floor, lobby area, unisex bathroom |
| Meany Hall | East end of dance studio hall by the water fountain, 2 unisex restrooms (one single occupancy, one public with two stalls) |
| Mechanical Engineering Building (MEB) | Faculty gender-neutral restroom |
| Mercer Hall | 1st floor of both east and west buildings, accessible unisex restrooms |
| Ocean Sciences Building (OCN) | 2nd floor, single-stall with lock, wheelchair accessible, labeled gender-neutral |
| Oceanography Building (OCE) | 1st floor, single-stall, wheelchair accessible; 3rd floor, 2 stalls |
| Ocean Teaching Building (OTB) | 1st floor, single-stall, labeled women’s; Basement, 2 single stalls, labeled male and female, wheelchair accessible |
| Parrington Hall (PAR) | 3rd floor, single-stall, additional single stall labeled as women’s; Basement, single-stall (Evans School students only) |
| Plant Laboratory (PLT) | 1st floor, accessible unisex restroom |
| Samuel E. Kelly Ethnic Cultural Center (ECC) | 1st, 2nd, and 3rd floors; 1 single-stall on each |
| Savery Hall (SAV) | 2nd floor Mezzanine, single-stall; 3rd floor Mezzanine, single-stall |
| School of Social Work (SSW) | 2nd floor, 2 stalls |
| Suzallo Library | Ground floor, G-050D |
| William H. Gates Hall (LAW) | single stall, open til 5pm; multi-stall gender-neutral bathroom |
| Wilson Annex (WLA) | 1st floor, unisex restroom |
* This is a working list, last updated February 6, 2020. Email qcenter@uw.edu with any updates.
The Ave Project
The Q Center, with assistance from community advocates, is putting together a list of public bathrooms on the Ave and surrounding area. The main goals of this project are to identify gender-neutral bathrooms so that this information can be passed on to UW students, faculty, staff and visitors and to identify gender-segregated single-stall bathrooms in order to press those establishments to remove gendered signage.
If you have a moment, please add a few locations to this Google Doc! Thanks!