[QGIS-Developer] Q(ueer)GIS

[Marco Bernasocchi]

Hi Celia,

Thank you for sharing this with the list, and congratulations. It takes
trust to write an email like that, and I'm glad you felt you could send it
here.

On the practical side: I see your PR  has been reviewed. If you spot any
other place where the old name still shows up (contributors list, website,
Transifex, mailing list archives we can influence), send me a note and
we'll fix what can be fixed.

QGIS is made by the people who show up and build it. You're one of them,
and that's what counts here. Welcome, again.

And yes, we dropped the Quantum years ago and never looked back either.

All the best,
Marco
QGIS.org Chair

Marco Bernasocchi
OPENGIS.ch CEO
QGIS.org Chair
OSGeo.org Board of Directors

Find a meeting time on my calendar <https://calendly.com/mbernasocchi/25min>
!
marco at opengis.ch
+41 (0)79 467 24 70 <+41794672470>



On Thu, 10 Sept 2026, 09:35 Celia Buira via QGIS-Developer, <
qgis-developer at lists.osgeo.org> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> So... This email has been sitting in my drafts for a while now. But
> yeah I'm a trans woman.
>
> Some people here I know IRL are already aware but I have been on
> HRT[1] for quite few months now, and so now it's public knowledge too.
>
> I would be very appreciative if someone could review this PR to remove
> my dead name from the source code [2] ? My github handle also has
> changed to @CeliaBuira
>
> Obviously I left behind some digital footprint with the name Valentin.
> If you could update my name wherever possible I would also be very
> appreciative. And otherwise I guess that's life.
>
> For "backward compatibility", I still answer to my previous mail
> address, but please favor this one from now on
>
> Looking back at it there were probably signs honestly, I even left few
> easter eggs in my PRs for the attentive eyes.
>
> I want to stress this, yes QGIS is *also* made by trans people and for
> trans people. For me there is very few things more thrilling than
> seeing QGIS used to defend trans people[3]
>
> Special thanks to Even for this [4] it mattered more than you might
> think. Thanks to Denis for making it easy to transition workwise. And
> thanks many many thanks to all the Trans people before me, I'm
> standing on your shoulders
>
> Time to live to the fullest, I let you with a song from Caterina
> Caselli[5] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNJBiGjOZvE
>
> Kind regards,
> Celia Buira,
> Formerly known as Valentin
>
> PS: now I have one more thing in common with QGIS, we both have a dead
> name haha
>
>
> [1] Hormone Replacement Therapy
> [2] https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/pull/67370
> [3] https://doi.org/10.1590/1413-81232020255.33672019.
> [4]
> https://github.com/OSGeo/gdal/pull/11865/changes#diff-28e156e3da6c95c5547ae5d09012efde80e9573504165d3f3dbf44bfd9ec79dfR32
> [5] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNJBiGjOZvE
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