Редактирование: Transhumanist politics (раздел)

== Overview ==
Transhumanism in a political sense is historically tied to many ideas concering liberty, self-ownership, and freedoms. These ideas are located in most political platforms, but the most promoninent in the early 1990s was  libertarian ideas on the one hand and liberal Green ideas on the other. However the socio-economic efforts  about human rights and freedoms of the [[Extropy Insitute]] founded in California, at a time in the late 80's and 90's where government adoption of radical sciences seemed unthinkable, and involvement to be cautious.

By the mid 2000's influential figures such as [[Leon Kass]] grew to prominence as [[bioconservatism|bioconservatives]], prompting the distain of centerist and leftist transhumanists such as [[James Hughes]].

[[Zoltan Istvan]]'s 2014 campaign for President, although not on the ballot and more of a media-based promotion, brought about what became the [[Transhumanist Party (US)|Transhumanist Party]] that caused a grass roots mobilisation of politically interested transhumanists from various political positions to develop often more liberal, considered practical political positions.