Jack Johnson at gender neutral bathroom at Surf Abu Dhabi
Kelly Slater gets a tube at Surf Abu Dhabi while Jack Johnson relaxes near gender neutral bathroom.

Surf Abu Dhabi makes surprise LGBTQ+ concession in lead up to WSL event

“Tyler’s queerness shouldn’t be a burden or an obstacle in her workplace.”

Back in October, Mikey Wright launched a stinging attack on the World Surf League for scheduling an event at the Kelly Slater tank in Abu Dhabi claiming his sis could face death in the otherwise peace-loving Islamic enclave. 

“You have no business putting on an event at a location where my sister can be sentenced by law with the death penalty. So much for equality and equal rights, only when it’s convenient to wsl. You have supported the LGBTQ flag on her shoulder but now you want to strip it and be hush hush to get her to a location that she’s at risk of this punishment. You have the responsibility to protect your athletes, interested to see how you think you can protect her against the law.” 

Tyler’s wife Lilli also had a swing at the beleaguered WSL writing,

“Unfortunately homosexuality is illegal at one of the locations and my wife can legally be sentenced to death or imprisonment if she tries to attend. Tyler has competed on this tour for over 14 years and has had the pride flag on her jersey since 2020. Even after winning two world titles she is still not valued enough by the WSL to be considered when they sold this event. Tyler’s queerness should not have to be a burden or an obstacle in her workplace.”

Well, in a surprise concession to the LGBTQ+ juggernaut, the Abu Dhabi wavepool has tacitly acknowledged that attraction can be fluid and not necessarily confined to binary gender constructs by quietly introducing gender neutral bathrooms in readiness, one presumes, for the WSL event there in February.

An online sleuth forwarded this photograph from social media of the surf minstrel Jack Johnson photographed near gender neutral toilets where everyone is welcome. It doesn’t matter where you fall on the Kinsey Scale, whether you be trans, bi, queer, pan, omni, ace, grey, demi, homosexual or, even, and ugh, heterosexual.

Jack johnson and gender neutral bathroom in abu dhabi.
Surf Minstrel Jack Johnson And Gender Neutral Bathroom In Abu Dhabi.

Where do you val on the Kinsey Scale, that continuum from exclusively heterosexual to exclusively homosexual, with the various degrees of bisexuality in between?

One being wildly hetero, ten being as a queer as a seventeen dollar bill, as they used to say.

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Deepsouth61
Deepsouth61
1 year ago

It’s their land.. it’s their laws

Niggles
Niggles
1 year ago

Not for nothing but Jack Johnson beers an uncanny resembelance to Ol’ Jeffery Epstein…

Noncompetitor
Noncompetitor
1 year ago

You mean the Slavepool? Did slaves build the gender neutral toilet?

Skippy
Skippy
1 year ago

This one goes to 11

Stick man
Stick man
1 year ago

You da da da da da da…

Stick man
Stick man
1 year ago

Gay Wrights and lefts for all!

notsurfingtoday
notsurfingtoday
1 year ago

Gender neutral bathrooms are great for straight people too – you can bang whoever wherever whenever, its just a quick dash to the WC with your other half without raising too many eyebrows.
Equal rights also go both ways.

Dogsnuts
Dogsnuts
1 year ago

Cunts as soon as I enter that fruity dunny I identify as a reverse kangroo.
Xox

Gil Gunderson
Gil Gunderson
1 year ago

They say Tyler’s not a good girl
Never one to share waves
Always complain, express ideas in her brain
Working on the surfboard
Spraying other surfers
You’re gonna have to pay her, if you wanna surf here

Happy Camper
Happy Camper
1 year ago

jack should write a song titled White Dudes for Harris and 17 Dollar Bill

Beef & Beer
Beef & Beer
1 year ago

More two-faced than you too know who…

https://uploads.disquscdn.c…

Beef & Beer
Beef & Beer
1 year ago

More to the point, all that gay/etc stuff is really just a sidetrack.
In fact it’s looking like this petro-based surf heaven is actually the new world order hq for surfing environmentalists.

I wonder how much they’re all being paid ?

Brutus
Brutus
1 year ago

fuck yeah I ‘m now a chance…..

Brutus
Brutus
1 year ago

was he resonsible for the Jones town massacre?

Choc
Choc
1 year ago
Reply to  Brutus

Very different type of slaying…

The Bitchy Crab
The Bitchy Crab
1 year ago

That elderly radio commentator sent me the loveliest note after one of my books came out.

deeks
deeks
1 year ago

Was it written on dunny paper?

Stick man
Stick man
1 year ago

Your book came out as Gay?

Dogsnuts
Dogsnuts
1 year ago
Reply to  Stick man

Hahahaha dude fuck. So good.
Xoxo

Dogsnuts
Dogsnuts
1 year ago

Haha birds of a feather and all that ☺️ xox

Noncompetitor
Noncompetitor
1 year ago

Dez we love you

The Bitchy Crab
The Bitchy Crab
1 year ago
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Noncompetitor
Noncompetitor
1 year ago

How good is that

deeks
deeks
1 year ago

jack Johnson Kelly slater Tyler wright can a Monday get any worse ?
I think not

The Bitchy Crab
The Bitchy Crab
1 year ago
Reply to  deeks

You could bump into Gavin Newsom…

deeks
deeks
1 year ago

Twillsy wins with the toilet cloisterer

Sean Connery
Sean Connery
1 year ago
Reply to  deeks

You could be stuck in a gender neutral bathroom with bubble toes playing non stop on repeat.

Board Barnacle
Board Barnacle
1 year ago
Reply to  deeks

As long as he doesn’t sing.

JSC
JSC
1 year ago

What do people do in “gender neutral bathrooms” other than perform bodily functions?

Asking for a friend –

NEGATRON
NEGATRON
1 year ago
Reply to  JSC

Transgender folk kidnap/murder small children in them according to a large potion of our readership here.

Brutus
Brutus
1 year ago
Reply to  NEGATRON

and don’t forget that in schools in the USA , you send your boy to school and he comes home a she !!

Com Turren
Com Turren
1 year ago
Reply to  NEGATRON

not quite. the real story is that your son walks into a gender neutral bathroom and then walks out of it as your daughter

Noncompetitor
Noncompetitor
1 year ago
Reply to  JSC

Laybacks

NEGATRON
NEGATRON
1 year ago

All I know is that as a plumber this gender neutral bathroom/one throne for all business is fucking with my bottom line.

Mapski
Mapski
1 year ago
Reply to  NEGATRON

I’m going to let it go in the pool, anyway.

Dogsnuts
Dogsnuts
1 year ago
Reply to  Mapski

Identify as a dugong.
Wix

Mapski
Mapski
1 year ago
Reply to  Dogsnuts

I’ve had boards that did.

Com Turren
Com Turren
1 year ago
Reply to  NEGATRON

Is it really a gender neutral bathroom without a urinal though?

Brutus
Brutus
1 year ago
Reply to  Com Turren

it’s actually a room with a big bath in it, some people would call it a gender free pool!
wait, it’s the door to the wave pool?

Noncompetitor
Noncompetitor
1 year ago
Reply to  Brutus

Working title: Bathroom

Picard Madeoff
Picard Madeoff
1 year ago
Reply to  Com Turren

I’m adding a urinal to all of my bathrooms after this eyes wide open question!

notsurfingtoday
notsurfingtoday
1 year ago
Reply to  NEGATRON

Exactly.
This is just a very 21st century way of developers saying ‘slash the number of WCs in the compound by half’

Picard Madeoff
Picard Madeoff
1 year ago
Reply to  NEGATRON

I’ll always use the mens bathroom and stand up to pee when in NZ in honor of you!


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