Update (1:30 p.m.): Run for Cover's Jeff Casazza has e-mailed Pitchfork a statement about cutting ties with Whirr. Check it out below.

Update (10/21, 12:38 p.m.): Run for Cover has split a $3,000 donation between three organizations: Interfaith Works Emergency Overnight Shelter, Sylvia Rivera Law Project, and Black and Pink. Read their statement here.

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Last night, the Bay Area band Whirr posted a series of negative tweets about G.L.O.S.S., a punk band whose lead singer is a transgender woman. (The tweets have since been deleted, but an archive can be found at Stereogum.) Among other things, they tweeted, "g.l.o.s.s. Is just a bunch of boys running around in panties making shitty music," and compared G.L.O.S.S. to the Buffalo Bill character from The Silence of The Lambs.

As a result, Run for Cover Records and Graveface Records have severed ties with the band.

Following Whirr's tweets, Run For Cover tweeted the following:

The singer of G.L.O.S.S. also created a Twitter to reply to Whirr:

This morning, after deleting last night's tweets, Whirr's Nick Bassett posted a statement in which he said the offending tweets were sent out by "a friend" with control of their account. "The comments made last night do not reflect any member's personal views," he wrote.

Following that, Graveface tweeted the following:

Graveface also wrote on Facebook, "There are no contracts at Graveface so there's no booting anyone off. Simply enough I will not be releasing records by anyone I know to be hateful, especially in regards to all of this. Cheers"