Facial hair

Women with lots of facial hair, the extreme being bearded ladies, have been considered as freaks by society and sometimes been part of circuses.

Trans men typically develop more facial hair while undergoing masculinizing hormone therapy as part of their wider gender transition.

Many religious male figures are recorded to have had facial hair; for example, numerous prophets mentioned in the Abrahamic religions (Judaism, Christianity and Islam) were known to grow beards.

Amish men grow beards after marriage but continue to shave their moustaches in order to avoid historical associations with military facial hair due to their pacifistic beliefs.

In Sikhism, one of the Five Ks followed by Khalsa Sikhs is kesh, which forbids the cutting or shaving of hair, both scalp and facial.

Because infant great apes have thicker "facial" (as well as body) hair than their older counterparts, it is not androgenic but part of the fur complex.