Hollywood actor viciously attacks JK Rowling over gender ideology – LifeSite

Thu Jul 17, 2025 – 11:39 am EDTFri Jul 18, 2025 – 7:32 am EDT
(LifeSiteNews) — Pedro Pascal is a member of that specific breed of Hollywood actor that publicly preens about being a champion of women’s rights. Like so many members of this species, he is a vicious, deceitful bully.
His favorite target of late is JK Rowling, the famous author whose own backstory as a survivor is the driver behind her advocacy on behalf of vulnerable women and championing of women-only spaces. Rowling has often told her own story: She left an abusive husband and received welfare while she raised children on her own. That experience has resulted in her decision to publicly defend women against the transgender movement, and she frequently clashes with trans-identifying men.
In the wake of the recent U.K. Supreme Court decision affirming that the legal definition of “woman” is biological, activist Tariq Ra’ouf put out a call on social media to boycott the Harry Potter franchise, calling her advocacy “awful disgusting sh*t.” Pascal promptly liked the post and chimed in: “Awful disgusting SH*T is exactly right. Heinous LOSER behaviour.”
Pascal is personally invested; he frequently highlights his support for the LGBT agenda; his brother, Lux, is a trans-identifying man and aspiring actor who has frequently accompanied Pascal on the red carpet. Earlier this year, he wrote on Instagram: “I can’t think of anything more vile and small and pathetic than terrorising the smallest, most vulnerable community of people who want nothing from you, except the right to exist.”
Trans-identifying men, of course, want much more than that. They want access to female changerooms and bathrooms. They want access to female sports. They want society to publicly recognize them as women, as if femininity were a costume that can be donned at will. In short, they want to remake society in their image. Pascal knows this, because Pascal supports this – and those who refuse to get with the program outrage him.
Pascal took another swing at Rowling in a June 2025 interview with Vanity Fair, in which he doubled down on his previous remarks. “Listen, I want to protect the people I love,” he stated. “But it goes beyond that. Bullies make me f***ing sick.” The bully, in Pascal’s version of the scenario, is Rowling, not himself. His claim that denying gender ideology asserts that his sibling “doesn’t exist,” of course, is nonsensical. Nobody is saying Lux doesn’t exist. Rowling is simply saying he is not a woman, which is a different claim entirely.
Rowling, of course, took it all in stride – she has been torching her prominent critics with hilarious, savage quips for several years with all the panache of someone who simply no longer cares. “Can’t say I feel very shut down, but keep at it, Pedro,” she posted on X. “God loves a trier.” Pascal, who is currently promoting his appearance in Fantastic Four, apparently decided that discretion is the better part of valor and remained silent.
It is relevant to note that for all his professed hatred of bullies, Pedro Pascal is a loud champion of abortion. He has shared a link to abortion funds on X, marched in support of abortion, and constantly posts about his support for “abortion access.” Abortion is the cruelest targeting of the vulnerable imagination, but Pascal, of course, supports it. In case you think I’m exaggerating, consider former abortionist Dr. Anthony Levatino’s description of what it is like to perform the procedure:
The toughest part of a D&E abortion is extracting the baby’s head. The head of a baby that age is about the size of a large plum and is now free floating inside the uterine cavity. You can be pretty sure you have hold of it if the Sopher clamp is spread about as far as your fingers will allow. You will know you have it right when you crush down on the clamp and see white gelatinous material coming through the cervix. That was the baby’s brains. You can then extract the skull pieces. Many times a little face will come out and stare back at you.
That is heinous. It makes me sick. If Pedro Pascal had any conscience, it would make him sick, too.
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