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Will Jodie's Doctor menstruate? (Serious biological question)


Prior to Whitaker's Doctor we've only seen The Doctor as a man so far. This means he has not been a woman. We can stipulate that there are two primary genders as canon due to the fact that The Doctor shoots The General and moves them into their 11th form, a woman, The General then states that she is back to her 'Normal' form and that her being a man was the only time she had been one and that it was not easy with all the ego issues going on.

The Corsair and The Master are two other Time Lords which we know changed biological gender through regeneration. We know of the Corsair's time as a woman from Matt Smith's Doctor telling us so and we saw The Master as Missy with both Smith and Capaldo featuring stories with her.

With this in mind we get down to the biology of it all. Gallifreyan children are born, they sleep in cots, if selected they get taken away at the age of eight and trained to become Time Lords. The Doctor has a granddaughter, Susan, whom we first meet him with in the first episode in 1963. Matt Smith's Doctor and David Tennant's have spoke of siring at least one child in their lifetime. We know that The Doctor can get oddly frisky having married at least Elizabeth 1st and Marilyn Monroe at points in his life.

From what we know of mammalian life (The Doctor has nipples) male specimens can create spermatozoa for the entirety of their lives (With diminishing returns as they get older/diet etc.). Female examples of mammalians produce ovum for a distinct period (Pardon the pun) of their lives which comes along with menstruating. Once they have passed beyond this stage, they no longer menstruate.

Whilst Whitaker's Doctor is likely to be in the unaccountable number of years sense of experience they have a fresh form which presents itself as much younger. Will The Doctor know mention a few biological facts which might educate young children as to the biological differences between their mothers and fathers? Will there be Tampax/Tampon skits to lighten the mood? Will The Doctor be a modern woman and address certain differences which they might not have thought about too much before?

What are your thoughts on this?

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Time Lord's may bear a superficial resemblance to humans, but that doesn't mean their reproductive anatomy is anything like ours. All we know is they've got two hearts to put one, we don't know what's further down.

For all we know, the bud or deposit eggs and Milt in the sea, or the Gallifreyan stork really does bring babies.

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Who parents them then?

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Who the hell knows? If the Doctor said "I was a father once" that doesn't even imply that he raised his child or children himself, even on Earth males of many species donate sperm and wander off, having no contact with their children. Even human males consider active parenting to be optional.

This whole flap over Whittaker has been very disappointing. It's shown how many fans haven't grasped the obvious fact that the Doctor isn't actually a human.

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Half-human. The Doctor claims they are half-human.

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When was that?

Because that comment makes no sense, unless he was speaking metaphorically or talking down to someone who's a bit dim.

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The Doctor Who movie with Paul McGann's Doctor states it.

It is left cryptically open ended and so I'm not sure what to make of it by way of how true it could be.

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Oh, THAT movie.

I've never counted it as part of the Canon, it was made by Americans.

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I was that way too but Moffatt made it canon by including Paul's Doctor as Hurt's Doctor's predecessor in Night of the Doctor (2013).

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As in so many other things, IMHO Moffat can stuff it!

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"I've never counted it as part of the Canon, it was made by Americans."

Why is that a problem. We Americans invented Dr. Who. And don't forget, we let your little island declare independence from us without even raising a fuss.

U-S-A! U-S-A!

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No.
She just went through the change!!!!

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Give her 28 days then?

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No, because she just went through the CHANGE!

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Right, but she's now biologically a woman. She didn't have an op or take hormone pills or anything like that. She went from being what she was before to being a woman. It's Time Lord stuff, if the Doctor could be a father when she was a man then I'd imagine she can be a woman now that she's a woman.

Christopher Eccleston's Doctor had his top off in 'Dalek' and he had nipples, Jodie appears to have breasts and so I'm guessing she's got all the other working parts of a biological woman.

I don't think she's postmenopausal yet because she seems young enough.

Explain yourself please Wearsalan.

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When a woman goes through the change she no longer menstruates. The Doctor is over 2000 years old, so no she isn't young enough.
Get it?

It was a joke!!!!!!!

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I got the joke, but The Doctor doesn't conform to the whole age = body thing that we whomans do.

I hope the Doctor gets preggars at some point in their future (Not this one though, that'd be a bit too quick and not well thought out).

A quick bout of dealing with monthlies could be useful for eduating young women as to what they are going through.

In some future reiteration of the Doctor as a man he could talk about getting erections on the bus as a teenager.

Because if talking about sex is OK, it's time to talk about all of it.

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