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Originally Posted by ComicGuy89

Seriously? Gender is a totally different thing from sex. It's not merely about what genitals you have but an in-built psychological thing. Try telling a transgendered person that his or her biology defines his or her gender and see how offended they feel!

Notice that in Ranma 1/2 when he becomes a girl, he is still fundamentally a guy? That's what a female Doctor logically would be, a male in a woman's body and would that be a fair representation of women?

Goodness man, before you ask me to "go home and think" you should think too.



I've already mentioned that it's not so much a problem with having a female Doctor as changing this Doctor for the sake of it. It could work but you'll need some pretty damn good writers. I see absolutely no precedent in this and I would love for someone to point out examples.

As stated, make a new Time Lord, reboot it, lots of ideas. I just don't think changing this Doctor is particularly easy to do.

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Another good point. The female Doctor would be all about her being a woman instead of, you know, being a proper individual with dignity. With good writers they can avoid it but it's very hard to find such writers.

This. All of this.

The Doctor's core mindset is MALE. He was a father, he was a grandfather. If he changes into a woman he's either going to be a male in a female body (so yeah, yay equality?) or become change the character he's been for the last 50 years so much that he isn't the Doctor anymore. The argument isn't sexist, I'm completely FOR strong female lead characters but they should be able to stand in their own ground. I want a Wonder Woman, not a Batgirl to put it simply.

If a fundamentally female character was changed to a male for the sake of shaking things up there would be public outcry, but the fact the opposite is fine and anyone who gets branded sexist who disagrees is just rude and annoying.

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Originally Posted by GoseiWonder

What's to say the past 50 years of the Doctor haven't been just a glimps of his entire existence, right down to his regenerations? It's not like Gallifrey was blown up when the Doctor was born and his first catalogued-by-humans regeneration is his first regeneration ever. Right?

There's been more than enough references in the shows run to say all the incarnations we've seen so far are all the Doctors. To add any more regenerations anywhere other than after the established ones would just piss a lot of people off.