User:SOTO/Forum Archive/The Panopticon/@comment-1451563-20180913002703/@comment-25117610-20190110185533

Although this is my first contribution to the thread, I've been following it from the very beggining, and one argunent I've seen a few times is that the "most prevalent" gender of a Time Lordshould determine whether to use "he" or "she" to refer the them as a whole. Aside from the already given arguments to debunk it, a portion of T:IU and T:POV came to my mind:

"Articles about narrative elements — also called "in-universe articles" — are written as if the topic were real, but one that no longer exists"

That would mean we're not dealing only with Hartnell - Capaldi vs Whittaker incarnations here. We're talking about them + a bunch of future incarnations, which means that we can't possibly (as far as those policies are written now) say the Doctor's had a "more prevalent gender", now will we ever can.

I'm also in favour to keep current policy as is: if we know a Time Lord has had at least one male and one female (and/or at least one which is neither) then we refer to them in general as "they"