I do it. Not on a fixie as I don't own one, but on my retro MTB that I did up with XT.
I have run XT hubs in horizontal dropouts without issue for a while now. Obviously, you do need to make sure the skewers are as tight as they will reasonably go, but otherwise they're fine.
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