Can Time Lords 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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What are female Time Lords called?

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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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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Can Time Lords control their regeneration?

Doctor Who television writer and script editor Eric Saward suggests in his 1985 novelisation of The Twin Dilemma (1984) that Time Lords can control the appearance of their next body if they trigger the regeneration voluntarily, but not if the regeneration is caused by death or injury.
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Time Lords can change Gender.



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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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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Can Time Lords have babies?

The Fourth Doctor's companion Leela married a Gallifreyan Time Lord, and in non-screen materials they had the first natural-born child on Gallifrey in millennia.
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Are Time Lords sterile?

Rassilon led a revolution against the Pythia, eventually causing her to kill herself and send her followers to the planet Karn. However, before she died she cursed Rassilon and all future Time Lords to sterility.
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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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Do Time Lords have two hearts?

A binary vascular system was a type of circulatory system in which the blood vessels led to two hearts. Time Lords had a binary vascular system.
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Is the Doctor the last Time Lord?

He has experienced the cutting-off (the end of experience, i.e. "death") of every other timeline of every other Gallifreyan who lived while he was alive, and as we go forward in his own timeline, no new Gallifreyans can be born. So in this sense, The Doctor is indeed the last of the Time Lords.
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Does Donna become a Time Lord?

The electrical shock on Donna stimulated her brain, awakened the Time Lord DNA that transferred to her during the two-way biological meta-crisis, and gave her "the best part of the Doctor — his mind," rendering her the "DoctorDonna" of the Ood's prophecy.
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Are all Gallifreyans Time Lords?

There are still Gallifreyans whom are not Time Lords, some which lived outside of the Capital Cities. There are also non-Timelord farmers in the series such as in the episode Hell Bent. As previously stated Time Lords were the ruling class of the planet Gallifrey when Doctor Who was introduced.
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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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Do all Gallifreyans have two hearts?

This question seems to be based on the idea that if the Timeless Child is from some other race, and we know that Gallifreyans/Time Lords have two hearts, it's therefore a coincidence that the Timeless Child/Doctor has two hearts too. But it's really not. There are a multitude of possibilities here, so take your pick.
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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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Why is Gallifrey in a bubble?

At the conclusion of "The Day of the Doctor" (2013), Gallifrey is revealed to have actually survived the Time War, though it was frozen in time and transported into a bubble universe, before being unfrozen and arriving at the end of the universe at a chronological point before "Hell Bent" (2015).
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Why do the Time Lords cover their eyes?

Assuming Rassilon's punishment is some long-standing Gallifrey tradition, it seems that troublesome Time Lords throughout the civilization's history were made to cover their eyes and assume the position of a statue to atone for their sins.
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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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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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Did the Doctor and Rose have a child?

Doctor Who – The Doctor And Rose Have A Daughter And Her Name Is Mia. When the Doctor first came onto our screens, he arrived with a granddaughter Susan who called the Doctor "grandfather". Right from the beginning, there was a familiar relationship in the show.
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Is Clara River Song's daughter?

Clara is a future regeneration of River Song who's had her memory erased. River is, after all, a Time Lord. We've seen her regenerate before.
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Why is River Song backwards?

River Song's Timeline isn't backwards (and neither is the Doctors). Their individual timelines move forward from birth to death (in the loosest sense of the word) but as time travellers they are free to visit any time and space in any order.
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Is River Song the Tardis?

Melody Pond's third incarnation, best known as Professor River Song, was a "child of the TARDIS" and the wife of the Doctor, specifically of their eleventh and twelfth incarnations, although she also had encounters with their tenth and thirteenth incarnations, as well as earlier incarnations whose memories were later ...
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