Toward a ‘Gender Transition Movement’ (GTM)

Author: A Voice for Men

The
following
is
a

Wiki4Men
entry
describing
Warren
Farrell’s
proposed
‘Gender
Transition
Movement.’

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*

Warren
Farrell,
author
of
The
Myth
of
Male
Power,
advocates
a
“gender
transition
movement”
which
refers
to
more
role-sharing
among
men
and
women
than
has
traditionally
been
the
case.
Farrell
proposes,
for
example,
that
women
may
wish
to
contribute
more
labor
and
more
income
so
that
“neither
sex
is
expected
to
pay
more
than
half
the
income,”¹ and
men
may
wish
to
spend
more
time
with
family
so
that
“both
sexes
raise
the
children.”

^2,3

Farrell
states,
“Taking
what
had
worked
for
most
women
traditionally
and
seeing
it
as
a
plot
against
them
led
us
to
see
men
as
“owing”
women.
This
created
Stage
II
entitlement:
women
being
entitled
to
compensation
for
past
oppression.
This
prevented
us
from
seeing
the
need
to
make
a
transition
from
Stage
I
to
Stage
II
together
:
the
need
not
for
a
women’s
movement
or
a
men’s
movement,
but
for
a
gender
transition
movement.”

⁴

He
further
states,
“A
gender
transition
movement
will
be
the
longest
of
all
movements
because
it
is
not
proposing
merely
to
integrate
blacks
or
Latinos
into
a
system
that
already
exists;
rather,
it
is
proposing
an
evolutionary
shift
in
the
system
itself—an
end
to
“woman-the-protected”
and
“man-the-protector.”⁵

Farrell
breaks
down
his
proposed
gender
transition
movement
into
stages
of
a
grand
historical
process,
which
can
be
described
as
follows:

• 1.
  Historically
  men
  and
  women
  adhered
  to
  strict
  gender
  roles
  for
  the
  sake
  of
  survival.
• 2.
  Women
  chose
  to
  “liberate”
  themselves
  from
  that
  role
  to
  gain
  more
  freedom.
• 3.
  Men
  have
  responded
  women’s
  “liberation”
  by
  proposing
  they
  too
  might
  be
  liberated
  from
  some
  traditional
  gender
  roles.
• 4.
  Ideally
  this
  unfolding
  process
  can
  culminate
  in
  a
  gender
  liberation
  movement
  for
  both
  sexes.⁶

References:

1. 
   The
   Myth
   of
   Male
   Power
2. 
   The
   Myth
   of
   Male
   Power
3. 
   
   Warren
   Farrell,
   Toward
   A
   Gender
   Transition
   Movement,
   in
   Does
   Feminism
   Discriminate
   Against
   Men?
4. 
   The
   Myth
   of
   Male
   Power
5. 
   
   Warren
   Farrell,
   Toward
   A
   Gender
   Transition
   Movement,
   in
   Does
   Feminism
   Discriminate
   Against
   Men?
6. 
   The
   Myth
   of
   Male
   Power

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