re: #242 Belafon

Because I’m not good with names and I know there even bigger Whovians than me: who was the female Timelord in the original series who was known to wipe out entire groups due to her experiments?

That would be The Rani, who was first seen teaming up with The Master in 1985’s “Mark of the Rani”.

(Before that, the Doctor had a Time Lady companion Romana during the last couple of years of Tom Baker’s era.

And of course, from the very first episode, we have Susan, as the Doctor’s grand daughter….

I could go on, but you probably get the point. The concept of female Time Lords is a no-brainer, since we were introduced to one in the very first episode before we even meet the Doctor. The only question was whether, in regeneration, there can be a change of what we might perceive as gender. And, given that regeneration involves a whole physical change of body, it’s not exactly a stretch, is it?)