<sod>'''Transhumanist politics''' constitute a group of [[List of political ideologies|political ideologies]] that generally express the belief in improving the [[human condition]] through advances in science and technology.<ref name="European Parliament 2006">{{cite journal|author=[[European Parliament]]|title=Technology Assessment on Converging Technologies|year=2006|at=ii|quote="On the one side are the true believers in the potential of technology to make individuals ever more perfect. Transhumanism is a political expression of that."|url=https://www.itas.kit.edu/downloads/etag_beua06a.pdf|accessdate=12 January 2015}}</ref> Transhumanists claim that the transhumanist movement aims to improve humanity with [[technology]] and [[science]] (for example through [[life extension]], [[moral enhancement]] and the [[abolition of suffering]]. Adjunct professor and author Jeanine Thweatt-Bates considers it impossible to define transhumanist politics as one set of beliefs, as the transhumanist movement includes opposite political perspectives on the ''central issue'' of regulating technology.<ref name=thweattbates-cyborgselves-2013>{{cite book|last=Thweatt-Bates|first=Jeanine|title=Cyborg Selves: A Theological Anthropology of the Posthuman|date=28 June 2013|publisher=Ashgate Publishing|isbn=1409481832|quote=This diversity within the movement, allowing a scope of political perspectives that includes opposite views on the central issue of technology regulation, makes it impossible to label any single set of political beliefs as 'transhumanist politics.'}}</ref> [[James Hughes (sociologist)|James Hughes]], American sociologist and bioethicist, has noted the dynamic between left-leaning and right-leaning visions for transhumanism and the future of technology and human enhancement.<ref name=hughes-zygon/><eod>
<sod>'''Transhumanist politics''' constitute a group of [[List of political ideologies|political ideologies]] that generally express the belief in improving the [[human condition]] through advances in science and technology.<ref name="European Parliament 2006">{{cite journal|author=[[European Parliament]]|title=Technology Assessment on Converging Technologies|year=2006|at=ii|quote="On the one side are the true believers in the potential of technology to make individuals ever more perfect. Transhumanism is a political expression of that."|url=https://www.itas.kit.edu/downloads/etag_beua06a.pdf|accessdate=12 January 2015}}</ref> Transhumanists claim that the transhumanist movement aims to improve humanity with [[technology]] and [[science]] (for example through [[life extension]], [[moral enhancement]] and the [[abolition of suffering]]. American adjunct professor and author Jeanine Thweatt-Bates considers it impossible to define transhumanist politics as one set of beliefs, as the transhumanist movement includes opposite political perspectives on the ''central issue'' of regulating technology.<ref name=thweattbates-cyborgselves-2013>{{cite book|last=Thweatt-Bates|first=Jeanine|title=Cyborg Selves: A Theological Anthropology of the Posthuman|date=28 June 2013|publisher=Ashgate Publishing|isbn=1409481832|quote=This diversity within the movement, allowing a scope of political perspectives that includes opposite views on the central issue of technology regulation, makes it impossible to label any single set of political beliefs as 'transhumanist politics.'}}</ref> [[James Hughes (sociologist)|James Hughes]], American sociologist and bioethicist, has noted the dynamic between left-leaning and right-leaning visions for transhumanism and the future of technology and human enhancement.<ref name=hughes-zygon/><eod>