Lack Of Gender Identity In She's The Man

In the movie, She’s the Man, actress Amanda Bynes acts as her brother for two weeks at a new school. Bynes’s character, Viola was on a female soccer team for a neighboring school. Viola’s team was cut because not enough players signed up. Viola’s boyfriend Justin is the captain of the Cornwall men’s soccer team and he tells her that she is better than half the guys on his team. Viola uses this to try to convince the Cornwall men’s soccer coach to let her and the fellow girls try out for the men’s team. The Coach tells Viola that men are genetically superior to women. After returning home Viola talks to her brother Sebastian and finds out he’s going to London for two weeks to play in a band festival. She uses this opportunity to impersonate her brother in hopes to make the Illyria men’s soccer team to prove that girls can compete with boys. Once at Illyria, Viola must constantly hide her sex from everyone; Viola’s friends help her out by staging scenes so that her teammates will think Viola is just another one of the guys. The staged scenes work and Viola gains
The research conducted was pinpointed at young males age 12-17. Young males were thought to have cross gender identity or gender behavior disturbance (Reker, Bentler, Rosen, Lovaas, 1977). This lack of identity causes boys to take on feminine characteristics. Boys will want to have children, cook and clean, even be the mother figure, when unsure of their sex identity. This is commonly seen in males who have not yet hit puberty; once puberty sets in it is oftentimes difficult for the child, because the hormones in the body don’t always agree with how the child views himself. A cross gender identity or gender behavior disturbance is found in one out of one hundred thousand children (Reker, Bentler, Rosen, Lovaas, 1977). Children who face these challenges often have social developmentally problems because they don’t know what sex group they belong