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.
Join our public Matrix server! https://matrix.to/#/#tracha:chapo.chat
As a reminder, be sure to properly give content warnings and put sensitive subjects behind proper spoiler tags. It's for the mental health of not just your comrades, but yourself as well.
Here is a screenshot of where to find the spoiler button.
Obviously it had an impact on me, though I didn’t watch past the 2nd season for reasons I can’t really remember. I also have a small friend group online that is mostly people who came out of the MLP fandom. I think almost everyone in the group is queer and there are multiple trans girls including myself. MLP caused a lot of gender questioning and was definitely a trans pipeline. The Kill James Bond podcast ep on the MLP movie talks about this a good bit.