Transgender, a word that is commonly confused among people who do not fully understand the definition. It is defined by Julia Wood (2014) as “Individuals who feel that their biological sex is not their true sexual identity” (p. 289). This is how the main character Brandon Teena from the award-winning film Boys Don't Cry feels. Many theories concern how boys and girls should play the roles of their assigned sex. These theories tie into what's going on in Brandon's head and how he's trying to defy the lessons that have been instilled in him since he was little. Through his verbal and non-verbal actions Brandon portrays a man's performance and leads his life as he wishes it were. There is still the attraction within him from social learning theory, defined by Walter Mischel as "individuals learn to be masculine and feminine by imitating others and getting responses from others to their behaviors" (Wood, p. 45, 2014). This is a little different for Brandon though. Social learning theory is usually aimed at children and learning how to best behave according to their gender. Brandon is an example of this when he tries to act more like a man around his new friends from Falls City. In the film, when they first go to the party in a camp where the men ride the bed of a truck as if it were a surfboard, or “skis on the bumper” (Hart, Kolodner, Sharp, Vachon, 1999). Brandon sees the men doing this and John says, “That's what the boys do around here” (Hart et al, 1999). Brandon uses this opportunity to show that he's one of the guys. Also, Brandon shows a lot of personal dramas, such as not being a woman and you have to be aggressive to prove that you are a man (Wood, 2014). John and Tom both exhibit these traits and have become role models for Brandon on how to perform masculinity in the right way (Cooper, 2002). He continues this theory by observing the other men in the group and the more he acts like them, the more he senses his disguise