Here we have an trans "professor" (how in the name of God can one become a professor of trans studies) arguing that the term biology didn't exists before 1819. I guess Aristotle was making it all up eh? Dear lord, save us from this madness! https://twitter.com/badinfinity2/status/1252263801807921152

The word biology is derived from the ancient Greek word βίος, vios, "life" and the suffix -λογία, -logia, "study of". It was rendered into Latin in the 18th century but this did not mean the term was 'coined'. Philosophers and physicians etc had long used the meaning biology.

I really take issue with the kind of blatant lies trans lobbyists feed to their uneducated and unsuspecting devotees. Misrepresenting knowledge has long been not just a sackable offence in academia, but an offence that permanently ruins a person reputation. Gordon Colby is...

...is an assistant professor of English at Bryn Mawr Collage in Pennsylvania https://www.brynmawr.edu/people/colby-gordon Frankly it is outrageous that they should be misrepresenting history in this blatant way to further their own agenda.

Clarification - the 'trans professor' relates to Gordon's own 'gender' rather that their academic status (nowadays there is such rubbish being taught in universities it is an easy mistake to make) Further clarification, I transposed their name - the name is Colby Gordon.

Further, although it has been a long time since I studied the history of ideas (and maybe someone more knowledgable can help out here), although 'biology' as a separate academic subject did not come into being until the enlightenment, the study of life forms and functions was..

...under way in ancient mesopotamia, into the Greek and roman period and through the great Islamic civilisations. And in the East; ancient 'Hindu', Buddhist and Daoist scholars studies these life forms and functions. So this idea that 'biology' did not exist and thus gender...

...critical arguments are null and void is total bunkum. If the trans lobby cannot do better than to misrepresent the history of ideas then they need to go back to the drawing board to work up alternative strategies for persuasion, because we are having non of it! Enough!

And now I am going to calm my irritation by going out into the garden whereby I will try to remember some of the Latin names for flowers and other plants and try to remember a little about the somewhat basic biology I studied. Thank goodness there are actual biologists I can read