Evidence for non-binary Doctor – requested by solo-by-choice (based on)
Let me also add two Third Doctor examples:
In the Daemons, the Doctor gets called ‘dear chap’ and objects: ’I, sir, am no kind of chap.’
In The Three Doctors, when Omega is presented with the Doctor, Jo and a male scientist, he tells his minions: ‘Take away the man and the girl’, and they lead away the two humans. Omega doesn’t have to specify “man”, meaning that there’s only one of them there, and it’s not the Doctor.
Not that I have a problem with non-binary doctor, butttttt… I’m pretty sure that these are evidence that the Doctor isn’t a human male. Which he isn’t, which is why he repeatedly refuses the title.
If you don’t have a problem with enby doctor then why did you feel the need to correct the headcanon.
Okay, that comment really bugs me, because you’re presuming that Gallifreyans adhere to a gender binary in the first place. When you talk about male versus female in terms of gender identity there’s only one binary. What the Doctor is refusing in these examples is to be pigeonholed by specifically gendered language; they decide what to be called based on how they identify.
The last example is especially important because you don’t have a king or queen on Gallifrey. The Doctor is genuinely intrigued by either prospect even though they’re usually reserved for a specific gender. So while in the other examples it’s a matter of “I’m not really a man” the last one is saying “Ooo, I like both of those things because I could totally be both of those things.”
It’s not about anatomy or species differentiation: it’s about identity.