This article analyses a contemporary Australian narrative of gender transition, the case of Alan Finch, a man in his mid-thirties living in Australia (and originally from England) who underwent surgical sex reassignment at the age of 21. Having lived as a woman for roughly a decade, Finch then decided to go back to living as a man. Author is not aiming to cast doubt upon the factualness of Finch's story, nor does author means to dismiss the particular difficulties he, and others in similar predicaments, have faced. Author is interested in this article in how Finch's story is 'formed, the genres of storytelling that are drawn upon, and the ways in which stories construct identities and events'. In the following discussion author looks first at how the representation of Finch's life story on Australian Story reinforces certain ideas about the heteronormative connection between sex and gender. Author utilizes Butler's (1990) poststructuralist perspective on gender identity to challenge some of these ideas. In the second section of the article author investigates the underlying assumptions in the text that are made about heterosexuality and homosexuality.