JRPGfan said:
"It happened during the The Curse of Fatal Death, which was a Comic Relief parody of Doctor Who." It has never happend in the actual show. The doctor has never in a story episode, said he can be male,female,whatever.
"If I recall my very fuzzy history of Dr. Who, the Doctor always regenerates as a man, of roughly the same approximate age and height, and roughly the same nationality and 'race'."
Show writer ? says on the matter: "One day I'm reasonably confident somebody in this [showrunner] role - whether it's me or someone else - will say not, 'Let's cast a woman', they'll say, 'That person, that's the one who could the be the Doctor'. You're just casting someone that you think will set that role on fire. I think for now that is Peter - I thought it was Matt [Smith] before - it's not about the gender thing."
However story wise it doesnt really fit. Not for the doctor. However the doctor has known others that regenerated, and some of those have at times done the switch. "DOCTOR: The mark of the Corsair. Fantastic bloke. He had that snake as a tattoo in every regeneration. Didn't feel like himself unless he had the tattoo. Or herself, a couple of times. Ooo, she was a bad girl."
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The Doctor doesn't have to say he can (although in both the last 2 episodes he indicated it was possible which contradicts you) because other Timelords have done it confirming that he can as well, we've had the Master and Missy and then the was the episode with the Timelord General going from a caucasian male to a black female who was of younger age as well.
Moffat can say what ever we're not to concerned what came out his mouth in the past he's no longer involved and made Dr Who harder to like as a series with his direction.
