Actress wants Doctor Who role as transgender Time Lord

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Actress wants Doctor Who role as transgender Time Lord

http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2015/10/14/actress-wants-doctor-who-role-as-transgender-time-lord/

Pink News
Nick Duffy
14th October 2015, 7:15 PM

Trans actress Rebecca Root has said she would 'love' to star in Doctor Who, as the next incarnation of the mysterious Time Lord.

The Boy Meets Girl star is continuing her campaign to be the next incarnation of the Doctor – after first mentioning her aspirations at the Radio Times Festival last month.

The star joked that she'd "love to be the first transgender Doctor" – after the show featured hints that the Doctor used to be a little girl.
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A trans Doctor would be so totally awesome. My heart goes pit-a-pat.. Too bad Clara has been around for a couple years. I would love to see Clara rebound from the loss of her man develop a love relationship with a female Doctor.

Unfortunately the show would lose too many viewers in the States to transphobe/homophobe sentiment among the fundy Christian viewers. My wife would totally freak out.

[Oliviah]

Missy is already a trans time lord.  Seems unlikely to have two trans characters on a hit show.

[Valwen]

Time lord and transgender are fuzzy concepts when your body changes and large parts of who you are, your personality and such also change keeping only certiain core things in tact gender changing should not be that big of a thing. I remember one episode the doctor is talking about another time lord who swaped back and forth just about ever incarnation something about it being a bit of a bother keeping pronouns right every time they regenerated.