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# Face of the Day
- URL: https://goodoil.news/face-of-the-day-1249/
- Published: 2025-07-13T18:30:00.000Z
- Updated: 2025-07-13T18:29:59.000Z
- Description: In spite of the massive impact that coming out has had on her life, she cannot and will not go back to life as a man. “Technically, it’s possible, because I haven’t had operations and so forth.”
- Author: Good Oil Staff
- Tags: Face of the Day, NZ Politics, Gender

> Before coming out, she had sometimes dressed as a woman in private and enjoyed it. \[...\]  
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> However, she didn’t realise the full consequences of everything she was stepping into.  
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> “If I’d contemplated this would be it for me, that for the rest of my life I’d have been living as a woman, I would not have come out. I would not have been able to handle the implications of that.”  
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> She faces dangers she never faced as a man; she now knows what it is to be vulnerable at night. She has been leered at by men, has been seen as a sexual object (“When a man says ‘Oh, you’re beautiful’, it’s not a compliment. It actually can be quite menacing.”) She doesn’t feel able to travel to the United States and no longer feels safe in Britain, where she’s from.

![Ciara Cremin says she has been leered at by men and no longer feels safe travelling to the United States or Britain. Photo / Sylvie Whinray ](https://d9qmik1gql6482.archive.is/LCsEv/80ac1f7ce65c050acc09056e2011e82426dc0fdf.avif)

Ciara Cremin says she has been leered at by men and no longer feels safe travelling to the United States or Britain. Photo/Sylvie Whinray

> Now, when she travels internationally, she often goes in disguise, as a man.“I am subject to discrimination and hostility like I have never been before. I’ve gone from being white, heteronormative middle class, male privileged … and then, overnight, I’m ‘other’.“At the University of Auckland, she has taught sociology for 16 years and been top of the senior lecturer scale for the past seven. \[...\]  
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> “Technically, it’s possible, because I haven’t had operations and so forth, but you can’t undo what you learn, and to go back to that would feel like utter defeat. It would go against everything I stand for.”   
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> \[...\] “So, for me, there’s no going back, and I have to live with the consequences of that. And in a society that has become increasingly hostile to trans women, that terrifies me.”

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