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Tennis legend Martina Navratilova got here to the protection of “Harry Potter” writer J.Ok. Rowling on Saturday as the author obtained criticism from actor Pedro Pascal in a latest interview.
Rowling and Pascal have clashed prior to now on transgender points, together with after Rowling celebrated the UK’s Supreme Courtroom ruling on the authorized definition of a lady.
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Actor Pedro Pascal, who’s starring in a film titled “Eddington” that performed at Cannes Movie Pageant, deflected considerations about the USA turning into closed off to migrants in a press convention on Friday. (Getty Photographs)
“Bullies make me f—— sick,” Pascal advised Vainness Truthful. “It’s a scenario that deserves the utmost magnificence in order that one thing can truly occur.”
Rowling dismissed Pascal in a social media put up on Friday and Navratilova added to it.
“One other Johnny come currently telling girls to STFU,” Navratilova wrote.
Navratilova is a lifelong Democrat however has by no means wavered on her push to maintain organic males from competing towards women and girls in sports activities.
Martina Navratilova in the course of the trophy displays on the French Open on June 8, 2024, in Paris. (Tim Clayton/Corbis through Getty Photographs)
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She has made clear prior to now she is not any supporter of President Donald Trump, and a fast scan of her social media posts would underscore that. Nonetheless, she has lamented Democrats’ inaction over the difficulty of transgender athletes taking part in girls’s and ladies’ sports activities.
When Trump signed an government order to ban organic males from girls’s and ladies’ sports activities, she fired off a fierce message towards the Democratic Get together.
“I hate that the Democrats completely failed girls and ladies on this very clear concern of ladies’s sports activities being for females solely,” she wrote in a put up on X.
She additionally expressed her frustration in January when the Home of Representatives handed the Safety of Ladies and Women in Sports activities Act. Solely two Democrats voted with Republicans on the invoice.
Martina Navratilova at a press convention in the course of the GNP Saguaros WTA Finals in Cancun, Mexico, Nov. 2, 2023. (Susan Mullane-USA At the moment Sports activities)
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“Extra Dems must step up right here. I do know many who agree however are scared to talk up due to re-election. I say do the precise factor. Develop a backbone,” she wrote on X.
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