*sigh* I could easily just keep this to myself, but fuck it
Super-personal-spoopy-SJW-attackhelicopter-narrative incoming:
I'm about to start my transition into being a woman after living as a man for over two decades.
This could not have happened at a more perfect time for someone like me.
The finale of this season reeked of dysphoric undertones, so a female doctor wasn't at all a surprise to me.
To argue against the idea that a fictional character in a TV show could be genderfluid, when so many people in our society already are, I would argue is more damaging than it would be to these strawboys having their favourite action figure taken away from them.
Besides, we've already seen Time Lords not only change gender but change race and physical age. This isn't even the first time The Doctor has been a woman! Joanna Lumley did it decades ago!
Again, sorry for the personal shit, but this is a personal topic to me. I grew up watching the Tom Baker Who, then continued in with the 2005 reboot. I'm absolutely in love with the show. Other people watch the show than white, straight, cisgender males. Why are their feelings more important than ours?