Xenia, the fox girl mascot of Linux, was first designed in 1996 by Alan Mackey. She was meant to be an alternative to Tux, the official mascot.

She had fallen into obscurity, but was noticed by a Twitter user in 2019 and was redrawn as a fox girl. But as it turned out, Xenia was originally meant to be male! The original creator, Alan, was cool with this, saying "It matches the transition of a lot of the smartest, nerdiest Linux users I know" and "And sure, you made her trans!".

So now we have a trans Linux mascot. And I think that's neat.

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      • Luna [she/her, any]
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        7 days ago

        I'm holding you to this, you will face the council of force-feminization if you stray from the path.

      • Josephine_Spiro [she/her]
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        7 days ago

        We will tie you to a rope and collectively lift you up and drop you into the Gender Pit™ like in that one video where the ESPN crew is too weak to lift Shaq up

          • Josephine_Spiro [she/her]
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            7 days ago

            Yes, and it's lemon-lime flavored without being made of lemons or limes. The color is constantly changing like :gamer: rainbow lights

            • Luna [she/her, any]
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              7 days ago

              I shall dive into the gender fluid, and emerge as whatever gender is landed on after @Thallo@hexbear.net spins the wheel hexbear-genderfluid . The only condition is that anything related to being/presenting cis equals a respin, cause I ain't no son trans-specter