I know I'm skewing Doylist here, but part of my wish for a female Doctor is Doylist!
Which is cool, and Doylistically I agree with you. A female Doctor isn't on my personal wish list, but in terms of representation it would be important. I just dislike the claim, which I've seen and which some folks are definitely reasserting in reply to this post, that regenerating as female would and should be something that's fine with the Doctor himself. To bring it back out of fiction again: I think that in our culture, gender shouldn't matter as much as it does. People shouldn't be treated differently because of their sex or gender identity. But I think the leap to "and therefore gender shouldn't matter to you, individual person, and your own sense of identity" is a huge problem.
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Which is cool, and Doylistically I agree with you. A female Doctor isn't on my personal wish list, but in terms of representation it would be important. I just dislike the claim, which I've seen and which some folks are definitely reasserting in reply to this post, that regenerating as female would and should be something that's fine with the Doctor himself. To bring it back out of fiction again: I think that in our culture, gender shouldn't matter as much as it does. People shouldn't be treated differently because of their sex or gender identity. But I think the leap to "and therefore gender shouldn't matter to you, individual person, and your own sense of identity" is a huge problem.