Over the past five years, J.K. Rowling has used each and every major global event as an opportunity to express just how transphobic she really is. Some of the many people she’s touched with her work over the years have chosen to be quiet and look the other way. Pedro Pascal, however, chose to look at her directly and call her out.
It’s not entirely possible to pin down Rowling’s transphobic crusade to one event — all that’s agreed upon is that it started the way most vile things do: Twitter likes. She initially denied it, chalking up her liking of a tweet about “men in dresses” back in 2018 to an accidental slip of the finger. But soon after, she began championing a U.K. Supreme Court case that aimed to define gender strictly on the basis of biological sex. The ruling eventually came out, and it ruled in favor of gender being solely based on biological sex.
