Just a matter of degree?

A good journalistic sense will sometimes compel a writer to sensationalize a subject - create an eye catching headline, or start off with a sensational first sentence, or even a ridiculous cartoon. Just like this article, "Among the Transhumanists: Cyborgs, self-mutilators and the Future of our Race" from Slate does.

The second paragraph asks the question: Why do we shrug at botox, liposuction, and circumcision? but get grossed out by guys like Lizardman? What seems at first a rhetorical question actually becomes a way of mocking transhumanists for being just too "weird", essentially too idealistic or irrational "incoherent" and just plain "creepy"

The article ends on a derisive note, dismissing even the mildest claims to the betterment of the human race (and isn't this what countless doctors, philosophers, educators, philanthropists etc. have been doing for ages already?) by presenting them alongside the most outrageous.

But when you think of it,
the difference between lizardman's brow ridge implants and a buttock implant really aren't that different. Both are cosmetic modifications that change the shape of the body by inserting an implant below the skin/muscle.

I understand that on one level it's about societal notions of beauty, the acceptance of female body modification for those aims and a host of other social factors, but once you peel all that away, seems to me it's really just a matter of degree.