Pedro Pascal doubles down on LGBTQ+ Allyship after J.K. Rowling showdown: 'Bullies make me sick'
'Protect the dolls.' At the Thunderbolts (2025) screening in London, Pedro Pascal's T-shirt said that. And he completely swears by those words. Nobody is surprised that Pedro is an enthusiastic LGBTQ+ ally.
Naturally, there is a personal connection because in 2021, his sister Lux Pascal came out as transgender. However, the broader narrative boldly amplifies the passion. Pedro is strongly committed to preserving the sense of community. And he's determined to change things.
"The one thing that I would say I agonized over a little bit was just, 'Am I helping?'" he recently stated in an interview with Vanity Fair. "Am I f***ing helping?" he asked, adding, "It's a situation that deserves the utmost elegance so that something can actually happen, and people will actually be protected.
I want to protect the people I love. But it goes beyond that. Bullies make me f***ing sick."
Naturally, this is not the first time that the most popular parasocial boyfriend has strengthened his position. He and J.K. Rowling, the author of the Harry Potter series, got into a heated public argument earlier this year over her celebration of the UK Supreme Court's April 2025 decision. To put it in perspective, the Equality Act states that the term "woman" should refer to biological females, thereby excluding trans women from legal recognition in some situations.
On the day of the decision, she wrote, beneath a photo of herself holding a drink in one hand and a cigar in the other, "I love it when a plan comes together." This was consistent with her long history of publicly and aggressively opposing transgender people.
Pedro felt the same way that JK Rowling did. "Awful disgusting s***...heinous LOSER behavior," the actor wrote in response to a reel by activist Tariq Ra'ouf advocating for a boycott of the Rowling and Harry Potter franchises.
In terms of his career, Pedro recently completed the release of Materialists, in which he co-stars with Chris Evans and Dakota Johnson.
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Pedro Pascal doubles down on LGBTQ+ Allyship after J.K. Rowling showdown: 'Bullies make me sick'
'Protect the dolls.' At the Thunderbolts (2025) screening in London, Pedro Pascal's T-shirt said that. And he completely swears by those words. Nobody is surprised that Pedro is an enthusiastic LGBTQ+ ally. Naturally, there is a personal connection because in 2021, his sister Lux Pascal came out as transgender. However, the broader narrative boldly amplifies the passion. Pedro is strongly committed to preserving the sense of community. And he's determined to change things. "The one thing that I would say I agonized over a little bit was just, 'Am I helping?'" he recently stated in an interview with Vanity Fair. "Am I f***ing helping?" he asked, adding, "It's a situation that deserves the utmost elegance so that something can actually happen, and people will actually be protected. I want to protect the people I love. But it goes beyond that. Bullies make me f***ing sick." Naturally, this is not the first time that the most popular parasocial boyfriend has strengthened his position. He and J.K. Rowling, the author of the Harry Potter series, got into a heated public argument earlier this year over her celebration of the UK Supreme Court's April 2025 decision. To put it in perspective, the Equality Act states that the term "woman" should refer to biological females, thereby excluding trans women from legal recognition in some situations. On the day of the decision, she wrote, beneath a photo of herself holding a drink in one hand and a cigar in the other, "I love it when a plan comes together." This was consistent with her long history of publicly and aggressively opposing transgender people. Pedro felt the same way that JK Rowling did. "Awful disgusting s***...heinous LOSER behavior," the actor wrote in response to a reel by activist Tariq Ra'ouf advocating for a boycott of the Rowling and Harry Potter franchises. In terms of his career, Pedro recently completed the release of Materialists, in which he co-stars with Chris Evans and Dakota Johnson.
