Corey Cobb was born intersex, but because Corey’s father and stepmother didn’t make a big deal of it, it isn’t until Corey’s dad dies suddenly and Corey is back with a disapproving mother that making a gender choice becomes an issue. Corey is now legally old enough to refuse medical intervention–but not old enough to prevent “choosing not to choose” being considered by Corey’s mother to be a psychiatric problem. While in the youth psych ward, Corey meets Kim, diagnosed as anorexic, and together, the teens discover important, perhaps catastrophic, truths about each one’s past.