Pedro Pascal has referred to as J.Okay. Rowling a “heinous loser” after she celebrated the Supreme Courtroom ruling that transgender girls are usually not legally girls underneath the Equality Act.
The actor, who has been an outspoken advocate for LGBTQ+ rights and has a transgender sister, Lux, left the remark underneath an Instagram publish from Tariq Ra’ouf during which the activist referred to as on his followers to boycott Harry Potter initiatives.
“Don’t watch the present. Don’t go to Common. Don’t purchase a single Harry Potter factor ever. It’s time to inform these companies that transphobia loses cash,” Ra’ouf wrote within the caption, including within the video, “It has grow to be our mission as most of the people to ensure that each single factor that’s Harry Potter associated fails … as a result of that terrible disgusting shit, that has penalties.”
Pascal preferred the publish and wrote, “Terrible disgusting SHIT is precisely proper. Heinous LOSER behaviour.”
Actor Pedro Pascal responded to the video calling for “each single factor that is Harry Potter associated” to fail due to JK Rowling & co.’s “terrible disgusting shit” by saying:
“Terrible disgusting SHIT is precisely proper. Heinous LOSER conduct.” pic.twitter.com/eSlR6TkHTC
— Wizarding Information™ (@wizardingnews) April 24, 2025
After 5 judges dominated that the phrases ‘lady’ and ‘intercourse’ within the Equality Act confer with a organic lady and organic intercourse final week, Rowling shared a photograph of herself smoking a cigar from her superyacht with the caption, “I adore it when a plan comes collectively.”
The courtroom sided with For Ladies Scotland, a marketing campaign group which introduced a case in opposition to the Scottish authorities during which they argued that sex-based protections ought to solely apply to these born feminine.
Following the ruling, Rowling wrote on X (Twitter), “It took three extraordinary, tenacious Scottish girls with a military behind them to get this case heard by the Supreme Courtroom and, in successful, they’ve protected the rights of ladies and ladies throughout the UK,” including, “For Ladies Scotland, I’m so proud to know you.”
In February, in the meantime, Pascal shared the quote, “A world with out trans folks has by no means existed and by no means will,” on Instagram, dividing his followers. After some threatened to unfollow him, he reiterated his stance, writing, “I can’t consider something extra vile and small and pathetic than terrorizing the smallest, most weak group of people that need nothing from you, besides the proper to exist.”
On Tuesday (April 22), he sported a T-shirt studying “PROTECT THE DOLLS” on the UK premiere of Marvel’s Thunderbolts – one he beforehand wore at his fiftieth birthday celebration. The shirt is a part of a pro-trans marketing campaign by American designer Conner Ives, and Troye Sivan, Addison Rae and Tate McRae have additionally been pictured sporting it.
Lux has beforehand stated of her brother’s help, by way of NBC Information, “He has been an vital a part of this. He’s additionally an artist and has been a information. He was one of many first to offer me the issues that shaped my identification.”
Pascal at present stars in The Final Of Us alongside Bella Ramsey. Season two premiered on HBO on April 13, and episodes are popping out weekly till Could 25. In a four-star evaluation, NME‘s Nick Levine wrote: “At its finest, The Final Of Us is unsettling sufficient to make you query your personal hypothetical ethical code. When every single day is about survival and making sense of post-apocalyptic chaos, does taking a life grow to be simpler, or one way or the other even more durable? This present doesn’t simply go deep narratively – it additionally cuts deep emotionally.”
