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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We didn’t know, they/them is a great encapsulation for plenty of non-binary people but there was only a wasteland for gender stuff before the 2010s unless you were lucky and ran into some theorist early. People maybe knew binary trans people existed and only really that trans women existed. My ex was nonbinary their whole life, only started using they/them pronouns in like 2018. Which was weird to think about cause like their dead name it’s weird to ever think I had used different pronouns for them at some point including back in like 2010.