J.Okay. Rowlinghas as soon as once more clapped again at “The Final of Us” actor Pedro Pascalafter he reignited their ongoing feud throughout a current interview.

The most recent disagreement between the “Harry Potter” creator and the star of “The Mandalorian” got here after Pascal accused Rowling of being a “heinous loser” for her views on ladies’s rights, doubling down on feedback he made earlier this yr.

The feud initially started when Rowling praised a Supreme Court docket ruling that protected women-only areas, which sparked outrage from Pascal. He publicly lashed out on the Edinburgh-based writer on Instagram, calling her feedback “terrible, disgusting,” and labeling her conduct “heinous LOSER conduct.”

“The one factor that I’d say I agonized over a bit bit was simply, ‘Am I serving to? Am I f-cking serving to?'” Pascal mentioned. “Bullies make me f-cking sick,” he added, emphasizing that his place is about defending these he loves and advocating for many who are in danger.

Pascal’s remarks have been broadly praised by LGBTQ+ shops and followers, however the writer was fast to retaliate together with her signature biting wit.

In a scathing X submit, Rowling responded, “Cannot say I really feel very shut down, however preserve at it, Pedro. God loves a trier.” The sharp retort was a transparent indication that the best-selling writer was unfazed by Pascal’s assaults.

Many X customers took to the feedback part to precise their opinions and communicate out. “Do you ever depart Twitter, like, is the ‘Harry Potter’ books all you’ve performed in life?” one particular person mentioned.

“Final I heard about 90% of the grown-up solid of ‘Harry Potter’ has distanced themselves from you,” one other wrote.

As many followers recall, the primary main public backlash towards Rowling got here in December 2019, when she made headlines for her feedback in regards to the transgender group.

After expressing help for Maya Forstater, a researcher who misplaced her job for tweeting about her perception that intercourse is biologically decided, Rowling posted a collection of tweets that many noticed as transphobic.

She tweeted in help of Forstater, calling the firing “unfair” and arguing that “intercourse is actual.” The feedback have been criticized by many, significantly these within the LGBTQ+ group, who noticed her stance as dangerous to transgender folks, significantly transgender ladies.

Rowling’s tweets sparked a fierce debate over gender identification and ladies’s rights, with some expressing concern that she was conflating organic intercourse with gender identification.

Rowling’s controversial views on transgender points continued into 2020, resulting in additional public scrutiny.

In June of that yr, she launched an essay on her web site the place she reiterated her beliefs about intercourse and gender. Within the essay, Rowling argued that the significance of acknowledging organic intercourse in legal guidelines associated to gender rights shouldn’t be undermined by the idea of gender identification. She wrote, “If intercourse isn’t actual, the lived actuality of girls globally is erased.”