Enlarge / Artist's conception of Valve eliminating Dolphin Barn Interactive from Steam. (credit: Dolphin Barn Interactive / Steam )

Valve has removed Roman gladiator sim Domina from Steam after the developer used a recent patch notes post as an opportunity to rant against transgender people and the idea of changing your public gender identity.

Dolphin Barn Interactive's v 1.3.25 patch notes for the game, published on Wednesday , asks for "respect" as the game changes from its "deadname" of "Domina" to the rebranded "Dominus," which has supposedly undergone a "sex change." The thinly veiled post gets more direct as it goes on to demean a well-known trans streamer and asks players to "stop destroying the innocence of children by lying to them about basic biology."

The Steam store page for Domina says the game is no longer available "at the request of the publisher." But in a post on a newly created Gab account, Dolphin Barn Interactive's Nicholas Gorissen said that is "incorrect" and that "Steam cancelled us" over the developer's views on trans people.