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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  • ThereRisesARedStar [she/her, they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    13 days ago
    1. Misgendering, sexual harassment
    spoiler

    I have to do a lot of interacting with the public as part of a socialist thing, and I’ve realized the hotter I look that day the more people go out of their way to misgender me.

    So they’re failing at making me feel bad about gender but I still feel icky because its literally just so fucking overtly trans coded sexual harassment

    1. I need to find a social space to use for dating but ugh, I’ve gotten so picky, except the folks whove made me picky are comrades and I don’t date comrades! Ugh! I have a partner but sometimes there are aches that are outside their wheelhouse.

    2. Does anyone else get a really weird mix of dysphoria and euphoria while looking at Chappell Roan in drag? I’m trying to sort out my feelings there but getting swamped by “pretty gender-non-conforming lesbian ahhhh” when I try to.