"The New Girl," is a unique fictional story about growing up experiences of an intersexed person. It touches on a number of really unimaginable issues that these very special people have to contend with.

A twelve-year-old hermaphrodite child is forced by changes in his body to change from a he to a she. She and her family move to another state to hide her secret. Her transformatin during the first month, and a series of defining events in her life are told from her perspective. She is forced to deal with personal embarrassment, the trauma of "corrective surgery," and uncertainty about who and what she is supposed to be.

She seeks to relate to and be accepted by those who do not know her secret, and the relatives who do. The latter goal becomes especially difficult when she is asked by her cousin to be a bridesmaid, and some relatives object. She also comes in contact with a few other unique persons who are also dealing with gender issues that are outside the rules. She develops a rather strange romantic relationship with a boy who had been a best friend when she had still been a male.

The account ends as she completes high school, ready to pursue an education in journalism. She is persuaded by events and her own feelings to reveal her secret to everyone.