Talk:The Paradox Moon (short story)

Should the continuity section be referring to the Doctor with she/her pronouns when talking about things that ahppened during male incarnations? I'm not 100% sure on the exact extent on the rules regarding pronouns, but am aware that there are rules for them regarding time lords that have had incarnations in more than one gender. Should these instances be changed to he/him pronouns because of what the Doctor used in those incarnations, or they/them pronouns because the Doctor has had male and female incarnations? ThomasRWade ☎ 15:30, 11 February 2021 (UTC)

Kind of depends on the context? When speaking directly of things that have consequence on a she/her incarnation, using the current pronouns is fine (e.g. the Doctor discussing his pat relationship to Missy in World Enough and Time: "I'm fairly sure she was a man by then…"). If you're saying "the Thirteenth Doctor looks back on the time the Nth Doctor did [X]", even if the Nth Doctor was not female, "she/her" works.

On the other hand, if you're saying, "the Thirteenth Doctor here does [X]. The Doctor, across their incarnations, was often observed to do the same thing", then you should use "they" for "the Doctor as a whole".

And if you mention a specific incarnation (e.g. "The Thirteenth Doctor calls herself 'Smith'. The Tenth Doctor previously used the alias of 'John Smith' for himself,") then obviously you should use he/him in the sentence that mentions the Tenth Doctor, not she/her. Scrooge MacDuck ☎ 15:35, 11 February 2021 (UTC)