He is intersex – a word unfamiliar to the midwife present at his birth, and to his stoic father and his fanciful mother – with both penis and vagina.

Wayne heads into the bush with his father, but at home he dreams of synchronized swimming and begs for a sequined bathing suit.

His father thinks of this as a masculine construction project, but the bridge is actually an expression of Wayne's feminine fantasy life.

As Wayne grows into a young adult, he moves to St. John's, where she decides to discontinue her masculinizing medication and allow her body to feminize spontaneously.

[6] Filmmaker Lisa Gunning, who directed the song's music video, has also optioned feature film rights to the novel.