Boys Don't Cry

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Stephanie Rennie
Class Project 2
March 27, 2012

Boys Don’t Cry

The movie I chose to watch is the 1999 movie Boys Don’t Cry. This is an intense, sad, and emotional movie that displays the true life story of Brandon Teena’s gender identity disorder. The main character played by Hilary Swank, is a girl named Teena Brandon that lives life as a male named Brandon Teena. Throughout the movie you see the struggles and danger he faces in an unforgiving community.

Gender identity disorder is when a person feels and identifies themselves as the opposite sex. This can be seen in their choice of sexual partners, behavior, dress, and mannerisms. In the movie Brandon dressed like a man, talked like a man, and pursued women like a man. Even though he lived in a time when it was completely ridiculed and even dangerous to pursue a same sex relationship he could not help but to indulge in his feelings. He landed in jail countless times and was constantly on the run from those who knew his lifestyle. Brandon ended up having to run to a nearby town where he tried to keep his gender a secret, but not for long.

Despite his own families’ disapproval and the constant danger he faced, Brandon seemed fearless and optimistic about his future. Every day he would do his routine to become a man in the hopes to one day get a gender transformation. He pursued women and male friends just as any other man would, and did it with the charisma of a charming young man that no one could dislike. In the small town where he ran to he made close friends with a few guys and girls, but especially one girl named Lana. The two ended up falling in love despite the huge secret he kept.

We all know now that gender identity disorder patients do not just wake up one day and decide they will be a different sex. It is something they are born with and genetically encoded with. Obviously there is no such treatment or cure for this disorder.

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