There is this story that according to documents released in 1998, Kaczynski experienced intense sexual fantasies of being female and considered having a sex change operation when he was in his twenties. From Wikipedia:
For a period of several weeks in 1966, Kaczynski experienced intense sexual fantasies of being female and decided to undergo gender transition. He arranged to meet with a psychiatrist but changed his mind in the waiting room and discussed other things instead, without disclosing his original reason for making the appointment. Afterward, enraged, he considered killing the psychiatrist and other people whom he hated. Kaczynski described this episode as a "major turning point" in his life. He recalled: "I felt disgusted about what my uncontrolled sexual cravings had almost led me to do. And I felt humiliated, and I violently hated the psychiatrist. Just then there came a major turning point in my life. Like a Phoenix, I burst from the ashes of my despair to a glorious new hope."
So, that smells like some fabricated bullshit, right?
Now, I'm not one who thinks he was a saint and was absolutely right in everything, but, as I imagine many here, his manifesto had a great influence on me. Has anyone else heard that story and checked it?
He still overcame those thoughts in any case. So it doesn't matter. He became better than that.