Peter Thiel Says Transgender People Aren’t Going Far Enough: ‘We Want More Than Sex Changes’
Palantir co-founder Peter Thiel has sparked outrage after saying transgender persons aren’t transforming enough – and that his transhumanist movement aims for far bigger changes than just switching sex organs.
Speaking on a New York Times podcast, Thiel framed transgender identity as a small first step in what he believes should be a much larger process of human change. “The critique is not that it’s weird and unnatural – it’s that it’s so pathetically little,” he said.
“We want more than cross-dressing or changing your sex organs. We want you to be able to change your heart, change your consciousness, and change your whole body.”
Peter Thiel is absolutely insane. pic.twitter.com/RR6VxdTMcX
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Thiel, a co-founder of PayPal and longtime Silicon Valley power broker, has poured millions into anti-aging research and experimental biotech. He’s a leading voice in the transhumanist movement, which promotes using science and technology to radically alter the human body, with goals ranging from cognitive enhancement to digital immortality.
On the podcast, Thiel described transhumanism as “a radical change where your natural human body gets changed into an immortal body.” He pointed to transgender people as an example of change that, in his view, doesn’t go far enough.
“A transvestite is somebody who changes their clothes and cross-dresses. A transsexual changes their penis into a vagina,” Thiel said. “But we want more change than that.”
Thiel’s comments focus on body-hacking futurism, drawing attention to the increasingly strange Silicon Valley’s obsession with control over biology.
As shocking as it may be, Thiel isn’t content with people changing their sex. He wants to re-engineer humanity itself. Actually, when he was asked if he thinks the humanity should continue to exist, he hesitated a lot, until giving his answer: in his opinion humanity should only continue to exist as a transhumanist species.
yogaesoteric
July 7, 2025