Less discussed were Thiel’s words following his half-hearted assurance to Douthat. “I would also like us to radically solve these problems.” The ideal iteration of transhumanism, he went on, “was this radical transformation where your human natural body gets transformed into an immortal body. And there’s a critique of, let’s say…the transvestite [as] someone who changes their clothes and cross-dresses, and a transsexual is someone where you change…your penis into a vagina…but we want more transformation than that…we want more than cross-dressing or changing your sex organs” (emphasis added).
The total transformation Thiel envisions is spiritual:
“Transhumanism is just changing your body. But you also need to transform your soul, and you need to transform your whole self.”







