I think you've misread my comment. I didn't say there weren't any female timelords (in-fact i started off by noting we have no idea what the gender split is; we know there are some male and some female, but not the ratio), i was talking about the prevalence of gender switching. To the best of my knowledge 2011 is the first time it was ever brought up, and Hell Bent the first time is was actually shown on-screen. I brought the latter up because it allowed us to see the reaction of another timelord there, which was relevant to what i was saying (that the show has in recent years presented gender switching as a thing that does happen, but isn't the standard).

No, I get it. I put my reply to your point in my Missy comment which is the first time in the revival series that they showed a Male TImelord turn into a woman time lord. There was no regeneration shown but there was a reaction from The Doctor(in realizing The Master is now a woman).

I think they caved to outside pressures.

I dislike race or sex changing characters. It hardly works. As far as i can remember all were disastrous except Nick fury because Samuel L Jackson is an icon. He could pull anything because he is cool outside the role.

Things like black human torch, female thor, etc. They just don't work. That isn't who the characters are, not to mention what a huge disrespect it is to their identity and legacy.

I'm sure i will still give it a chance, but i'm far from excited. This cave in to outside pressures will create a disconnect with the fans and the show runners that may spell disaster to the series.

Ah, I think there was just a misunderstanding then. When i said "shown" i meant literally shown. Ignoring that though, while we do get an end-result reaction from the Doctor with Missy i didn't consider it relevant to my point. Not only is their general dynamic rather different from other timelords shown, i'm inclined to believe the majority of his initial shock was aimed more at her identity than it actually being a her. He was similarly shocked with the Professor Yana reveal.

In-show wise, i think the best reference points we have for personal gender bias with regeneration is the Doctor himself (who until now has been shown male 13 times and female now once), and the soldier timelord's fluttered reaction in Hell Bent. It's obviously far from conclusive though, and DW will make the cannon whatever it wants it to be :p

I'm not really much into Doctor Who, I have only watched maybe a dozen episodes, but this doesn't really seem like the right series to be complaining about a female replacement... I don't know, the entire series is about replacing actors. Just seems rather natural.

To the bolded - it seems that way. Here's the regeneration of the Doctor's female Timelord companion Romana, way back when. I remember watching this, first time around.

Everytime I watch the separate intros of the series or watch the Sleeping Angels episodes I want to get into the series, but there seems to be no convenient way of watching it from the beginning and some of the Doctors i've seen are truly awful (cough cough Season 1 of the reboot)

I stopped watching the Who reboot during the Tennant era. It just felt like it was going nowhere, plus it was WAY cheesier than I expected. Maybe the series isn't for me. Good luck to the new Doctor tho.

So women can even be doctors now, huh.

I'm not a Doctor Who fan in the slightest, I don't watch the show (tried it, too mediocre for me sorry), but I'm would expect some sort of social justice inserted into the show. I wonder how fans will react. Has worked wonders for Marvel and their comics for example (sarcasm).