Pedro Pascal doubles down on criticism of ‘loser’ JK Rowling’s anti-trans views: ‘Bullies make me sick’

NEW YORK CITY, NEW YORK: Actor Pedro Pas­cal is once again stand­ing up for trans­gen­der rights, aim­ing at author JK Rowl­ing for her con­tin­ued sup­port of anti-trans­gen­der sen­ti­ment.

In a new cov­er sto­ry pub­lished by Van­i­ty Fair on Tues­day, June 24, Pas­cal opened up about the back­lash he faced after label­ing Rowl­ing’s views “heinous los­er behav­ior.”

The ‘Last of Us star’, whose sis­ter Lux Pas­cal came out as trans­gen­der in 2021, has been a con­sis­tent advo­cate for LGBTQ+ rights, both online and in the spot­light. His recent Insta­gram com­ment crit­i­ciz­ing Rowl­ing went viral and reignit­ed debate around celebri­ty activism, ally­ship, and the impact of pub­lic fig­ures on trans rights dis­course, as report­ed by PEOPLE.

Pedro Pas­cal says ‘bul­lies make me sick’

Pedro Pascal’s com­ments stemmed from JK Rowling’s pub­lic sup­port of an April 16 UK Supreme Court rul­ing stat­ing that the legal def­i­n­i­tion of “woman” under the Equal­i­ty Act is based on bio­log­i­cal sex.

Pas­cal respond­ed by com­ment­ing on an Insta­gram video crit­i­cal of Rowl­ing, writ­ing, “Awful dis­gust­ing s**t is exact­ly right. Heinous LOSER behav­ior

In his inter­view, the actor admit­ted he briefly sec­ond-guessed the move, not out of regret, but con­cern over whether his voice was help­ing the cause.

The one thing that I would say I ago­nized over a lit­tle bit was just, ‘Am I help­ing? Am I f*****g help­ing?’ It’s a sit­u­a­tion that deserves the utmost ele­gance so that some­thing can actu­al­ly hap­pen, and peo­ple will actu­al­ly be pro­tect­ed,” he said

“Lis­ten, I want to pro­tect the peo­ple I love. But it goes beyond that. Bul­lies make me f*****g sick.”

Pas­cal said the brief moment of doubt remind­ed him of being a kid in school, get­ting called to the principal’s office, and won­der­ing, “What’d I do?

Pedro Pas­cal wears ‘pro­tect the dolls’ shirt as sis­ters back his stand against JK Rowling’s trans views

Pedro Pascal’s sis­ter, Lux Pas­cal, pub­licly came out as trans­gen­der in 2021 and has spo­ken open­ly about her expe­ri­ence. Their oth­er sis­ter, Javiera Bal­mace­da Pas­cal, also defend­ed Pedro in the Van­i­ty Fair inter­view.