Can a Time Lord change gender?

Upon encountering the remains of fellow Time Lord the Corsair in "The Doctor's Wife", the Doctor refers to the Corsair as both male and female, hinting that Time Lords can switch genders upon their regenerations; this is confirmed in "Dark Water", in which the Master, previously seen in various male incarnations for ...
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Are Time Lords genderless?

In Doctor Who, Time Lords are canonically genderfluid, in that their genders can change between incarnations. Time Lords transform their bodies in order to prevent death, giving them a new personality each time they undergo this process.
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Can Time Lords Shapeshift?

You see, in his theory Time Lords were once shapeshifters, with the same technology/inherited abilities that granted them regenerations also allowing them to change and blend on a visual and cellular level into any species (in a similar way to how a TARDIS's chameleon circuit – when it's not broken – is able to make it ...
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How old can a Time Lord get?

Well, the way I see it, at least from the point of view as it's presented, is each timelord life gets around about 80-100 years, so they age normally, if a timelord regenerates due to injury (as every doctor bar Hartnell) has, the "extra years" stack up into the next regeneration, so they could potentially live twice ...
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How many regenerations does River song have?

Assuming they did not, it would appear that Melody Pond/River Song gave up TEN incarnations (9 regenerations) to save The Doctor. First Regeneration - while homeless, young Melody Pond apparently succumbed to hunger & illness, undergoing her first regeneration in the episode "Day of the Moon".
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Time Lords can change Gender.



How does a Gallifreyan become a Time Lord?

The majority of Time Lords were genetically Gallifreyans, since they arose from the species; they considered themselves to be the elite of Gallifreyan society, (PROSE: Interference - Book Two) as only a select few bloodlines had been granted the privilege of becoming Time Lords when Rassilon originally unveiled the Eye ...
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How do Time Lords reproduce?

The TL;DR is that in non-screen materials Gallifreyan reproduction is largely aided by cloning-like technology, but that this seems to be contradicted by some on-screen evidence that they reproduce more like we do. At very least cloning is possible, as with the Doctor's daughter.
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Are Time Lords immortal?

As the Time Lords were further developed, so too were the laws of regeneration. It eventually became clear that, while regeneration had given the Doctor a way of evading multiple deaths, Time Lords were not immortal and there were still ways they could die.
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Why do Time Lords have two hearts?

One, it's exactly that, a coincidence, and both races – whatever the Timeless Child is, and the Shobogans of Gallifrey – have two hearts. Two, the genetic experiments Tecteun conducted to derive regeneration from the Timeless Child altered the Time Lords to have two hearts too.
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Is Julia Foster going to be the 14th Doctor?

Julia Foster is the 14th Doctor, with Tennant Back as Companion. Veteran actress Julia Foster will replace Jodie Whittaker after she bows out from Doctor Who in this year's festive special. Despite claims to the contrary, Whittaker in fact filmed her final scenes late last year.
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Can a Time Lord regenerate into a child?

From what I've been able to find; Yes, a Time Lord can regenerate into a child-like form. The best example I've been able to find thus far is The Master regenerating into Professor Yana.
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Is Time Lord regeneration possible?

In Doctor Who, time lords can do just that. On the verge of death, they're able to regenerate their bodies and become new versions of themselves. This trick allows time lords to live thousands of years and offers a last-minute solution in life-threatening situations.
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What do you call a female Time Lord?

As last year's Christmas Special revealed, Broadchurch star Jodie Whittaker has taken on the role of the Thirteenth Doctor – and we couldn't be more excited for her adventures starting later this year. But some fans slightly baulked at a female Time Lord, or Time Lady if you will.
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Is the Doctor asexual?

One thing has been a constant, though — the Doctor himself has been entirely asexual, save for the notorious on-screen kiss during Paul McGann's performance as the Eighth Doctor in the one-off special made during the show's wilderness years, a kiss that had fans outraged precisely because it was so out of character and ...
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Why is Doctor Who a girl?

So why can't the Doctor be female? Simply because he isn't. He is a male Time Lord, so that means all of his past and future incarnations will be male. If he were to regenerate into a female, then he would have to have been born as a female, and all his past incarnations would have to have been female as well.
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Can Time Lords regenerate infinitely?

A Time Lord can only regenerate 12 times, meaning after the 13th incarnation, they would truly die. This way, the show could switch leads a good deal of times throughout its run, and leave the problem of what to do when that run is up for the future writers to address.
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Do all Time Lords have a Tardis?

Retired Time Lords are not permitted to own a TARDIS, and unauthorized use of a TARDIS carries a mandatory Death Penalty.
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Is Clara immortal?

Still without a heartbeat, Clara realizes she's technically immortal because her death has already been written, and the duo resolve to go off adventuring on their own before Clara has to return to the Time Lords and face her own time stream as intended.
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Can Time Lords be ginger?

It is said that during the Feast of Rassilon, Time Lords and Gallifreyans are allowed to have ginger because it reduces their tolerance to alcohol. They sometimes have ginger beer on holidays.
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Why does the TARDIS not like Clara?

In answering that question in Doctor Who Magazine, Moffat suggested that the TARDIS' dislike of the current companion may be due to her sceptical nature and how she did not seem suitably awed by the Doctor's spaceship. Or, as he said, “It's almost like it's all building to something…
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Are Time Lords born?

Time Lords aren't born, they're crafted. At the age of eight, every Gallifreyan child is brought before the Untempered Schism, a tear in the fabric of time and space. To look upon it is to see eternity. Needless to say, not everyone's mind survives that experience.
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Are Weeping Angels Time Lords?

The Weeping Angels being disgraced Time Lords creates a classic Doctor Who time travel paradox - the Time Lord punishment was inspired by the Weeping Angels, but the Weeping Angels were created by the Time Lords' punishment.
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Can Time Lords get drunk?

This is thought to be because they metabolize alcohol very quickly. But there is an exception to that rule-- if ginger beer gets involved, then it can reduce their ability to tolerate alcohol and leave them feeling a bit worse for wear. So if you ever want to get a Time Lord drunk, ginger beer is the way to go.
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Are there black Time Lords?

Doctor Who unveils its first black portrayal of the Time Lord in show's 57-year history... as show boss CONFIRMS actress Jo Martin is 'definitively the Doctor' Doctor Who has introduced its first black portrayal of the titular Time Lord in its illustrious 57-year history.
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