Is transhumanism predisposed towards libertarianism? In the IEET's use of the words associated with freedom and knowing location within Enlightenment values, transhumanism remains a broad church with an appeal to the left. Why is this so?
Firstly, the discourse of enhancement has become nestled within arguments concerning regulation and state provision, drawing upon existing academic work on the relationship between health, state and technology. Hence, the clear ties between transhumanism and the bioethics community. There is no rival school in the ivory tower.
Secondly, this institutional reliance on the left will focus upon positive notions of freedom, using the state to develop enhancement. Another drawback for a liberal approach: as its arguments cannot favour enhancement of humanity within the existing provision of health.
I am sure there are other historical reasons why the movement has shifted towards social democracy within its arguments, primarily based upon better organisation and mobilisation on the part of the Left. And that is a testament to their achievement.