Transgender, a word that is often confused among people who don't completely understand its definition. It is defined by Julia Wood (2014) as follows: “Individuals who feel that their biological sex is not their true sexual identity” (p. 289). That's how main character Brandon Teena from the award-winning film Boys Don't Cry feels. Many theories deal with how boys and girls should play their assigned roles. These theories relate to what's going on in Brandon's head and how he tries to defy the lessons that have been instilled in him since he was little. Through his verbal and non-verbal actions, Brandon behaves like a man and lives his life the way he wants. There is still in it the appeal of the 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). It's a little different for Brandon, though. Social learning theory is generally aimed at children and learning to act in the best possible way based on their gender. Brandon is an example of this when he tries to act more like a man around his new friends in Falls City. In the film, when they first go to a party in a field where men ride on the bed of a truck as if it were a surfboard, or bumper ski. (Hart, Kolodner, Sharp, Vachon, 1999). Brandon sees the men doing this and John says, “That's what the men do here” (Hart et al, 1999). Brandon takes this opportunity to prove he's one of the guys. Additionally, Brandon presents many personal dramas, such as not being a woman and having to be aggressive to prove that one is a man (Wood, 2014). John and Tom exhibit both of these traits and have become role models for Brandon on how to implement masculinity the right way (Cooper, 2002). He pursues this theory by observing the other men in the group and the more he acts like them, the more he feels that his disguise is