User:SOTO/Forum Archive/The Panopticon/@comment-44988386-20200416234118/@comment-45692830-20200527001252

Not really a similar situation. It's "River is a unique entity within the world of Doctor Who how do we classify her" vs "there are literally conflicting accounts of the Doctor's origins and Unnatural History (novel) tells us all of them are simultaneously true."

Obviously the only way to solve this is to ask one of our Faction Paradox writers if River is alive in The City of the Saved. :> (Though that then opens up Grandfather Halfling I guess.)

But we can just cordon off the problems here to saying "well the versions of the Doctor said to be human/half human have this category applied to them, etc etc". And I see no reason to think that we'd apply a non cisgender tag to any iteration of the Doctor. Since regeneration into a new body is not at all similar to transitioning, and it does a disservice to both the show and to trans individuals to compare them.