Keith posted at 7:47AM Fri, 28 July 2017 - #4310867

In 1986, the producer largely responsible to bringing the character to TV in 1963 recommended to the BBC that a future version of the Doctor be female. In 1999, the novel Interference - Book One explicitly mentioned Time Lords changing genders, and there's been fanon for decades assuming that it could take place. So it's hardly a new development, it's been one that just hadn't made it to screen.

Saying that because they didn't mention it meant it didn't exist is roughly akin to saying no one in Starfleet has to take a crap because they never showed a toilet on the Enterprise.

Hmm, so you're saying that everything that ever happened to the Doctor, even things that were merely suggested by writers as a potential plot, or in comics, books or movies actually happened even though the producers say it didn't?

And just to reiterate, I'm not against a woman as a Time Lord. I'm against a woman playing THIS particular Time Lord. Of course the fact that I've like heroic female leads before like Supergirl, Wonder Woman, Xena, and Buffy is all negated by the fact that I'm so against this one instance.