Doctor Who a woman! No way! It's one thing to accept he can change in to a new body but he is male and it should stay that way. Certainly his companions hese days have been shown as intelligent and not just there as a pretty (screaming) face.

As for an earlier comment about Star Trek's Lt Christine Chapel Having multiple degrees but being a nurse in the show is somewhat inaccurate. She was a qualified doctor and bio-researcher but chose to accept the only available position on the Enterprise to search for her fiance Dr Roger Korby who had disappeared on an earlier space mission.

These stupid women won't be happy until they can use a urinal. Newsflash, just because someone views something as sexist, racist, or whatever, doesn't mean it actually is. This reminds me of those stupid morons who say AIDS isn't a gay disease(as in gay men).

And reality continues to subjugate liberals.

One shouldn't forget about the Doctor's Daughter Jenny (Georgia Moffett, real life daughter of the Fifth Doctor actor Peter Davison ).

She was manufactured from the doctors DNA.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Doctor's_Daughter

She has some of the powers of Time Lord including regeneration.

Lets be creative and make Doctor Who be Two Women... at once. All kinds of possibilities for fun with the side kick there! :

Who? A black World Champion? A gay James bond? What next, an illegal alien elected President of the U.S.?

Oh Heavenly Time Lady, witch art Chiphova? -
Give us this day the full word processor -
Lead us not into half-words such as "man" -
Deliver us our daily INQ as we google those who would trust pass us -
For thine is the 64-bit question -
The full-word such as "woman" - "TARDIS" - "awomem"

Im all for it.. bring on the female doctor I say... just get rid of donna nobrains (who is a rolemodel for naught but pathetic nohopers everywhere) and bring back the doctors daughter..

It is'nt necessary to make Dr Who a woman. Just bring back his long departed Time Lord side kick, Romana.
Romana, played by two different actresses, was an intelligent female Time Lord who travelled with the Doctor and helped him out with technical problems and such. She was funny and loveable. In the series Romana survived the Time War because she was stuck in E-Space. Now she can be brought back into her own series. Problem solved, you bunch of trouble makers !!
Thanks and see you out there,
Loki Sunrider

What? The only male Vulcan i know of in a major role in a Star Trek series was Spock and i'm pretty sure he never had any romantic entanglements with any female doctors..... mainly because back then there was only Bones and his female nurse assistant.

Are they thinking of Picard and Beverly Crusher? Either way, Mrs. (Dr) Crusher had many episodes where she was integral to the plot and salvation of the ship and crew and in fact even commanded the enterprise during at least one episode.

How much is this quango being paid for coming up with ideas like this ? Can I have their job please. How many other quangos are there doing the same thing as this one ? With expensive organisations like this in power, no wonder the UK's finances are in such a mess over the rest of the worlds.

Make that hopeless character "donna noble" the next doctor....that would be the end of time for sure.

It was bad enough suffering thru her endless overacting in your face. To make her David Tenent's replacement would be insufferable in the extreme.

Save the planet, don't don't waste time on this diversion

A lesbian Dr Who - Billie and ...
This is the flipside to the current gay male role models running the British monarcy media. Only old women create a stink and they probably don't watch science fiction anyway.

First off I find this comment, "Women thought Dr Who acted like a woman a lot of the time anyway: he was a creative multi-tasker. And he was intelligent." sexist, and second, it's already been done back in 1984.

Independent film maker Ryan K. Johnson cast Barbara Benedetti as The Doctor in his fan videos. Been there, done that, time to move along.

Why not go the whole hog and make the next doctor a black disabled transexual with downsyndrome.

Wow, I just skipped my first "drayshek" comment in the new design.

What! Dr who a woman. Preposterous. Its time to put these lesbians off the roads, out of the work place and back in the kitchen.

Wrong!
The Doctor wasn't born... he was Loomed! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lungbarrow

posted by : david, 10 December 2008

Wrong link there Dave. Its actually:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Other_(Doctor_Who)

Did they forget about Rose? Who ended up with a gigantic gun saving everything and the only one in the series to ever get the Doctor's semi-title

"The one that makes people better" = Rose

Allmost even forgetting Sarah Jane Smith.

In Stargate SG1 you got Samantha, smartest woman alive. They even got an SG team purely female.

Atlantis, the same basic thing.
Startrek even was the very first show in Scifi to show equality between men and women.

My vote would be to keep the Doctor a man, his personality changes, not his gender. It would totaly change what it means to be the doctor.

:) A double episode dealing with a botched up regeneration which turns him into a woman would be very fun tho.

In short, good initiative, but they forget what it allready there.

The Doctor wasn't born... he was Loomed!

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lungbarrow

I vote Sandi Toksvig to be the next Doctor!