Look, I understand you are trying to protect your employees careers. But this is not the way you should handle things at all.
Let's start talking about the notoriety of the events: By yesterday, literally nobody but ResetEra and GameRevolution cared about this drama. Now you are on the front page of Kotaku, IGN, The Escapist and many others. Not your apology painted you as the wrong people, but also made the event more well-known, and now you are getting review-bombed on Steam. These are very clear signs that your strategy didn't work.
Before all of this, I didn`t even knew about the existence of ResetEra. I thought all people related to NeoGaf had vanished from the face of the internet after the pedophilia scandal. Now not only you brought them to the spotlight again, you gave them power, you made them right.
Now, about the ridiculous apology itself. Apologizing for what??? Apologizing for saying that "trans parents should not decide their children sex after birth and mutilate their genitals?" You think this is something wrong? You think this is transphobic? Do you disagree with this statement? Because anybody that believes on this viewpoint may be a potential child molester and should be put in a watchlist. If you apologize for saying that, then that means you defend this viewpoint.
I have seen SEVERAL trans people both on facebook and twitter defending the dev's position that he said nothing wrong. So who are you apologizing to?
And then, censoring the game... that's just the insult to the injury. The cherry on the top of the shitcake. Who ever mentioned the game itself? Why???
You opened a precedent. You brought these horrible people to the spotlight. You caused an irreparable damage to the gamming industry. Gaming's worst problem today is people that does not plays videogames can find themselves comfortable to dictate what videogames should be about, and you are enabling that.
I really supported this game. I really wanted you to succeed. After all the garbage you all have been through, the ♥♥♥♥ with Pitchford and Gearbox, the Bombshell fiasco, the ♥♥♥♥ with Iron Maiden, you guys deserved to win at least once. I know some of you, I talked to Fred on the ROTT days, one of your spriters (formley known as Mike12) helped me back in the early days of Brutal Doom development, I know you are all nice people and I hope you can all do well, but I simply can't get behind this. It's infuriating. I'm sorry guys.
You can donate 10 grand, or all the money you want to any charity you want to please these bullies, but not with my money. I do not want to support any business that bends its knees to these kind of people and supports censorship. I really hope I can get a refund. Please, at least consider going back on the decision of butchering the game.