A conservative student group at Boise State University, in Idaho, has criticized a university administrator for saying a planned new unisex restroom in the campus’s student center will accommodate transgender people, The Oregonian reported. Leah Barrett, the student union’s director, said she had told a group of student leaders that the restroom, which anyone can use, would be suitable for people with disabilities, for families — and for transgender students.

That comment prompted the BSU College Republicans to call for clarification. “We don’t want the university to label this a transgender bathroom,” Jonathan Sawmiller, president of the student group, told the newspaper. Mr. Sawmiller, who raised the issue in an April radio broadcast, said that after the news-media attention, “the university was told to stop referring to it as a ‘transgender bathroom,’ and to start calling it ‘unisex.’”

Michael Laliberte, the institution’s vice president for student affairs, said university publications would refer to it as a “handicap-accessible unisex bathroom.” And the university said in a news release on Friday that the unisex restroom, which is being installed as part of a renovation and expansion of the student center, was required by the state building code.

Universities in several states have adopted policies to deal with the concerns of transgender people, who may fear harassment, violence, or arrest when using traditional restrooms. Regardless of what Boise State calls its new restroom, Ms. Barrett defends its addition to her facility. “The role of a college union on a campus is to be the community center where everyone feels comfortable and feels welcome to be who they are,” she said. —Charles Huckabee