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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dysphoria posting
it's 8 pm, time to be super wistful about feeling like not being a cis girl has lead me to lose out on several life experiences that i'll never be able to have!
spoiler
But you traded that for the experiences of a trans girl commie, which is pretty cool
of course, but the grass i've been told to touch is always greener on the other side, you know?
as per usual, that emotion only lasted me a few hours. i'm fine again