I do hope that if it does come up in the leaders' debate tonight that both Sunak and Starmer don't just condemn Tennant's words and misogyny; but also point out how regressive and oppressive it is to think that just because a child doesn't conform to narrow, old-fashioned sexist stereotypes they are no longer the sex they were at birth.
The whole ideology is absurd, othering and very judgemental - as if boys who like stereotypically feminine things are not male enough to count as boys or men, and girls who don't buy into restrictive stereotypical behaviour or cannot (or don't want to) match current beauty standards aren't real girls. What an attitude to teach children and young people!
Tennant and Moffat's son has been completely misled if he thinks he's not still a boy. Between the ages of 3 and 11 my youngest DS grew his hair, loved singing gay anthems or pretending to be Baby Spice and wearing his older sister's hand-me-down multicoloured velour leggings after school. We never once criticised his choices or suggested that he wasn't a boy because of his interests or how he dressed (although it was hard not to smile as he regularly belted out a rendition of It's Raining Men in the kitchen as an 8 year old). He was a happy, gender-non-conforming little boy who grew up to be a lovely, well-adjusted young man. And a straight, quite gender conforming, one at that.