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Off topic but: birth control is OTC in Saudi Arabia? That busts a stereotype.

Aisle 5, right next to the condoms and lube bottles =) and Victoria Secret makes money hand over fist here.

This would be off-topic here, but I think most people outside of the region would be stunned about the state of sex-change operations over here. They happen VERY frequently, albeit with a heavy veil of privacy.

Male -> female or female -> male? I have no desire to have a sex-change, but if I had to choose between living as a woman in Saudi Arabia and having invasive surgery and hormone therapy, I might choose the latter.

Both. Anecdotally I’d actually say that the ratio of MTF surgeries to FTM ones is higher than usual over here.

Assuming that Christian laws apply to an Islamic country is a strange stereotype.

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