Pedro Pascal Opens Up About Why He Called Transphobe JK Rowling A 'Heinous Loser'

Actor Pedro Pascal recently explained why he said Harry Potter author and anti-trans activist JK Rowling behaves like a "heinous loser," and suffice it to say he has absolutely no regrets.

The comment came in reference to Rowling gloating over the U.K. Supreme Court's recent decision to define what exactly constitutes a "woman" in the eyes of U.K. law, a decision that subjects trans people to violence, among other problems.

Rowling was among those who threw enormous amounts of money behind the legal case in hopes it would end up in the Supreme Court.

In a new interview with Vanity Fair, Pascal explained why he said what he said—and then doubled down with an even more pointed criticism of Rowling and her bizarre obsession with trans people.

Pascal explained that part of his anger at Rowling is because his sister Lux Pascal, with whom he is very close, is trans, but he would find Rowling's rhetoric disgusting regardless.

He told Vanity Fair:

“Listen, I want to protect the people I love."

“But it goes beyond that. Bullies make me fu*king sick.”

And "bully" is a perfect description for Rowling, a billionaire who has spent the better part of a decade lashing out at a community that has done nothing to her and, at just 0.5% of the UK population according to the country's most recent census, doesn't have the numbers to do so even if they tried.

It is Goliath kicking David in the teeth for sport and then trying to play the victim, and apart from bullying, it is deeply pathetic and weird.

Unsurprisingly, many on social media had no sympathy for Rowling and applauded Pascal for not walking back his comments.

Pascal did admit that he sometimes questions whether his mocking and derisive approach toward Rowling is the right way to go.

He told Vanity Fair:

“The one thing that I would say I agonized over a little bit was just, ‘Am I helping? Am I fu*king helping?'"

“It’s a situation that deserves the utmost elegance so that something can actually happen, and people will actually be protected."

But studies of autocrats and dictators, for example, have repeatedly shown that mockery and ridicule are key to not only resisting their forces of bigotry and oppression, but dismantling their power.

So calling a billionaire leveraging her enormous power to victimize people a "heinous loser"—or mocking her constantly for the infamous black mold problem she has in her house—is actual resistance, according to literal experts. So fight on, Pedro.