I won't know until the changes are proposed. I think I could do a rewrite that incorporates changes that I think are a poor idea just to see if I change my mind after seeing the results.

It does need to continue to be the coming-of-age story of a genderqueer / gender-inverted boy. If it doesn't currently work as that, then it needs to be edited so that it does work, and does entertain, as that. But it has to be that. That's what the story is. If the story isn't that, the story needs to become that. I'm not interested in writing a different story but I'm interested in rewriting this one so that it work, if it doesn't currently work.