JK Rowling has channelled the A-Team as she continued to celebrate a Supreme Court ruling that trans women are not legally women - posting a picture of herself puffing on a cigar.
The Harry Potter author claimed yesterday's decision, which found the terms 'woman' and 'sex' in the 2010 Equality Act referred to biological sex, as a major victory for 'the rights of women and girls across the UK'.
And after sharing a post on X, formerly Twitter, suggesting she and her husband were clinking glasses of Champagne after the ruling, she has now followed up with a selfie of her smoking.
She accompanied it with the words: 'I love it when a plan comes together. #SupremeCourt #WomensRights.'
That was the catchphrase of the A-Team character and leader George 'Hannibal' Smith, played in the 1980s TV series by the late George Peppard.
Rowling, 59, also hit back at suggestions she was smoking a 'blunt', associated with cannabis use, in the picture she shared.
She posted: 'To those celebrating the fact that I'm smoking a blunt: it's a cigar.
'Even if it decided to identify as a blunt for the purposes of this celebration, it would remain objectively, provably and demonstratively a cigar.'
JK Rowling has been posting on social media following the landmark Supreme Court ruling
Susan Smith (L) and Marion Calder, Directors of For Women Scotland, make a statement outside the Supreme Court
The writer has also praised the women's group For Women Scotland, which she is believed to have backed with funding and who launched the long-running legal battle against the Scottish government over the definition of a 'woman' in Scottish law.
The case centred on whether somebody with a gender recognition certificate (GRC) recognising their gender as female should be protected from discrimination as a woman under the Equality Act.
The Scottish government had argued that such people were entitled to sex-based protections, meaning a transgender person with a GRC certificate identifying them as female would count towards women's quota.
But campaign group For Women Scotland claimed they only applied to people born female.
The court ruled that the words 'sex', 'man' and 'woman' in the Equality Act must mean 'biological sex', rejecting any alternative interpretations as 'incoherence and impracticable'.
On Wednesday evening, Rowling shared a photo on X of what appeared to be two glasses of prosecco under a sunny canopy, as she toasted the decision with her husband Neil.
Alongside the image, she wrote: 'We toasted you @ForWomenScot. Neil says it’s TERF VE Day [laughing emoji] #SupremeCourt #WomensRights'
The term 'TERF' is used to describe people whose views on gender identity are seen as hostile towards transgender people.
JK Rowling's cigar post has prompted praise from followers on social media, including mentions of 1980s TV series The A-Team and former UK Prime Minister Winston Churchill
The judgment was celebrated by women's rights groups who opened a bottle of champagne. Pictured: Susan Smith (centre left), Marion Calder (centre right) and Helen Joyce (right)
JK Rowling shared a photo of what appeared to be two glasses of prosecco under a sunny canopy, as she toasted the decision with her husband Neil
Alongside the image, she wrote: ' We toasted you @ForWomenScot. Neil says it’s TERF VE Day [laughing emoji] #SupremeCourt #WomensRights'
Harry Potter author JK Rowling, pictured in April 2018, welcomed the Supreme Court's ruling
The Supreme Court has announced that the definition of a woman is based on biological sex in a landmark ruling. Pictured: Campaign group For Women Scotland celebrating the judgement
Lord Hodge said that five Supreme Court justices had unanimously decided that 'the terms woman and sex in the Equality Act refer to a 'biological woman and biological sex'
Marion Calder (centre), Helen Joyce (centre left) and Maya Forstater (left) celebrate outside the Supreme Court in London
The ruling comes after years of campaigning by gender-critical figures including Harry Potter author Rowling, who reacted on Wednesday by posting on X: 'It took three extraordinary, tenacious Scottish women with an army behind them to get this case heard by the Supreme Court and, in winning, they've protected the rights of women and girls across the UK. @ForWomenScot, I'm so proud to know you.'
She later added: 'Trans people have lost zero rights today, although I don't doubt some (not all) will be furious that the Supreme Court upheld women's sex-based rights.'
In an 88-page ruling, the justices said: 'The definition of sex in the Equality Act 2010 makes clear that the concept of sex is binary, a person is either a woman or a man.'
They stated: 'A person with a Gender Recognition Certificate in the female gender does not come within the definition of a 'woman' under the Equality Act 2010 and the statutory guidance issued by the Scottish ministers is incorrect...
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