User:SOTO/Forum Archive/The Panopticon/@comment-1451563-20180913002703/@comment-1451563-20181126051122

Now that is by far the best piece of evidence we’ve gotten for using “they” so far. If anything will convince that’s the correct pronoun, it’ll be that quote there, so thanks for that. However, I still have a few questions / reservations. First, is that from the book The Good Doctor? And also, more importantly, one thing about that quote that sticks out to me is “in the way you understand it”; what could that mean specifically - perhaps more context could help? Finally, even if we do say this quote definitely means what we think it means without a shadow of doubt (though I would still think we should wait it out until series 11 is finished just in case more detailed insight can be gleaned on the issue, personally), what does that mean for all of the information we gleaned about how Time Lords view gender based on dialogue from the TV series? Does the book’s single quote take precedence over those things?