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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    other people have gone into enough detail already but just chiming in to say AGP isn’t real, it’s just a way of pathologising trans women experiencing female sexuality in the same way the vast majority of cis women do. try not to be ashamed of those feelings. Blanchard is a hack fraud and all of his work on this is made up transphobic bullshit designed to hurt you and keep you in the closet. thinking it’s a secret other thing than just being trans is a pitfall you should try to pull your thoughts out of. also you don’t need to experience dysphoria to be trans, you can just be trans. for what it’s worth it sounds like you do experience it though and are just trying to invalidate yourself probably out of fear. i know it’s scary but my 2c is that it clearly sounds like you should transition.