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21 July 2017 @ 05:24 pm
Time Lords & Ladies and gender.  
So many questions I'm still wondering about. And I'm hoping that because of the new Doctor we'll finally get some answers.

Are Time Lords & Ladies are always cisgender? Because so far we've only seen the Time Ls who've changed sex behave the way it's socially expected of that sex. They accept the associated pronouns and looks. Could that be described as genderfluid from incarnation to incarnation (though not within an incarnation)?

Missy seemed only half aware of her new sex, yet she called herself Missy and was conforming to it in others ways too. It certainly didn't seem to bother her. What's that? Does that still count as cis? Or is that in a way "gender neutral", that Time Ls will conform to whatever body they find themselves in?

Does gender dysphoria not exist for Time Ls? We've heard complaints from the General, but was that just because being male was an annoyance some way or did she actually feel properly unhappy in a male body?

Do Time L's mostly get the sex that corresponds with their gender idenity? Like if a Time Lady feels female, she'll only occasionally - if ever - regenerate into a man? So if a Time L felt comfortable with either sex, could they be expected to change sex several times?
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kay_brooke[personal profile] kay_brooke on July 22nd, 2017 10:31 pm (UTC)
That last point has kind of been my headcanon for a long time. Like, as far as we know, the Master has always been (or mostly been) male right up until Missy, and then, as you mentioned, the General was always in a female body, became male once, then went back to female. And of course the Doctor has been male in all known previous incarnations. Then you have the Corsair (mentioned in "The Doctor's Wife") who was implied to switch back and forth more often. So it always kind of made sense in my head that some TLs identified more strongly as male or female, and that was reflected in what proportion of their incarnations were male of female, and then some like the Corsair were more genderfluid and so regenerated into more of a mix of genders.

I'm actually really interested in the gender dysphoria question, or even body dysphoria in general in regenerated Time Lords. I doubt we'll ever get much of a canon examination of it, though.
fueschgast: Doctor Who[personal profile] fueschgast on July 27th, 2017 10:48 pm (UTC)
Now I'm wondering if it's possible for a TL to not initially identify with the sex opposite to theirs, but once they've tried it on, they will. Like if the Doctor's only ever identfied as male but then regenerates into a woman, she could discover that she does also identify as female and later incarnations could be women too.