Kit Marie records their chat while undergoing electrolysis treatment from Abigail Best! All the while they chat about electrolysis treatment, the geography in voice and language, access to treatment on the NHS, and more!

Abigail is a fully licenced electrolysist with over 30 years’ experience and offers permanent hair removal to everyone including transgender clients, pre-GRS electrolysis, polycystic ovaries and other hormonal based hair related concerns. She is based in Huntingdonshire in the East of England, near to the city of Cambridge.

Some links to things mentioned in the chat:

-	What is electrolysis? (https://www.webmd.com/beauty/cosmetic-procedures-electrolysis) 
-	Gender dysphoria (https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/gender-dysphoria/treatment/) 
-	Gender clinic locations and wait-times (https://genderkit.org.uk/resources/wait-times/) 
-	“How One Man Convinced 200 Ku Klux Klan Members To Give Up Their Robes” (NPR - https://www.npr.org/2017/08/20/544861933/how-one-man-convinced-200-ku-klux-klan-members-to-give-up-their-robes) 
-	Gender Identity in the Census 2021 (https://geogramblings.com/2021/02/14/gender-identity-in-the-2021-census/) 
-	Alexander the Great ‘Bunk about Beards’ (https://www.karwansaraypublishers.com/en-gb/blogs/ancient-history-blog/bunk-about-beards)
-	National Geographic ‘Beards & Mustaches’ Weird History’ (https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/beards-mustaches-weird-history)

Support services:

-	Terrence Higgins Trust (https://www.tht.org.uk/hiv-and-sexual-health/sexual-health/trans-people/resources)
-	Trans Unite (https://www.transunite.co.uk/)  
-	Women’s Resource Centre: Help & Support Services (https://www.wrc.org.uk/help-support-services) 
Expand your geography network and connect with Abigail via Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/abbybestgreatpaxton) and website (https://abigailbestelectrolysisandbeautytherapy.com/) 

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== About the 'Coffee & Geography' podcast ==

The aim of ‘Coffee & Geography’ is to get to know, explore and celebrate the diverse & intersectional range of people and their love for the world. We’ll have fun exploring all the myriad of ways that connects your life to geography. Wait – you don’t think you’re a ‘geographer’? Well, that’s ok! If you have a love and passion for the world then you probably are more than you know.

If you're interested in being a guest or want to find out more, then visit https://geogramblings.com/coffee-geography-podcast/. There you will also find an interactive map to explore the locations of guests and the brews that they drink!

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The Coffee & Geography Podcast is a 'Geogramblings' production, hosted and produced by Kit Rackley (they/them). The podcast is supported by generous donations via https://ko-fi.com/kitrackley and takes advice from an advisory board of volunteers.

== About Geogramblings ==

Kit Rackley (Geogramblings) spent 13 years as a Geography high-school teacher, and is now freelancing as an educational blogger, author, speaker & trainer. They are a consultant to the Geographical Association (UK) and work through the University of East Anglia to raise aspirations of young people to Higher Education. 

Kit's projects include the Geogramblings.com educational blog, communicating issues through performing arts, the Coffee & Geography podcast and many community-based initiatives.

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