Dana El-Kurd

I know this audience specifically of it could happen here has a significantly higher chance of the general population to know what electrolysis is.

But can you explain for people who don't know or only kind of familiar what electrolysis is?

Of course.

Electrolysis is the only FDA recognized method of permanent hair removal.

It is a technique that dates back a surprisingly long time where we insert a filament about the size of a hair into individual hair follicles.

And with the use of electricity to generate either heat or lye, we basically kill each hair follicle at its root, and that hair, if all goes according to plan, will not come back.

It is commonly used in gender-affirming care, and that is one of the, if not the, specialty of real ewe electrolysis.

Yeah, can you talk a bit about this in a gender-affirming care context?

Of course.

You know, if you are a transgender person and you are undergoing medical transition, there is a variety of reasons you might want to have hair permanently removed, either in preparation for surgery, both in terms of a transfeminine or transmasculine surgical context.

You will need hair permanently removed from some parts of your body that will be involved in that.

You also may want to have facial hair or body hair permanently removed.

Again, this applies to both trans feminine, trans masculine and people anywhere else on the transgender spectrum.

Because, you know, not everybody wants to have body hair or facial hair.

Yeah, and this is something that, I mean, I can personally say you can get a lot of dysphoria from body hair.

It can be real bad.

Oh, yeah, it can.

And not having it is such a huge difference.

Yes.

And I guess a thing that I should say, so my understanding of electrolysis, I have not done electrolysis.