J.K. Rowling's new target? The asexual community

International Asexuality Day "is a coordinated worldwide campaign promoting the ace umbrella, including demisexual, grey-asexual and other ace identities," according to the IAD's website. The four themes of the day are advocacy, celebration, education, and solidarity.

Asexuality has been considered a valid sexuality for decades, with Dr. Alfred Kinsey's landmark 1948 and 1953 sexual behavior studies finding that 1.5 percent of males interviewed belonged in the "X" category on the Kinsey Scale, indicating "no socio-sexual contacts or reactions" and up to 19 percent of female interviewees belonged in that category.

Rowling also replied to many of the people who joined her in bemoaning the existence of people who identify as asexual.

"I want an International Bored Of This Shit day," she replied to someone who had asked "what will be next?"

Author John Boyne added in his two cents, saying "this is the problem with lumping everyone who isn't straight into a 'LGBTQ etc' category. If asexual people don't want sex, good luck to them. But gay people quite like it, actually. So why am I and other gays thrown in a category with them? Makes no sense."

"Refusing to accept that people who don't like sex belong in the gay category is akin to wanting segregated bathrooms in the 1950s, John, as approximately a thousand gender activists will inform you once their hands stop literally shaking," Rowling replied.

Another anti-trans X activist replied to Rowling saying "As a gay man can someone tell me why straight people not wanting to get laid has ANYTHING TO DO WITH ME?! I’m so grateful to have organisations like LGB Alliance in 2025 to push back against this nonsense, it’s glorious to see them grow bigger & louder each year…"

"Sure, people are still killed for being gay in a lot of countries, but straight people who don't fancy a quickie are being literally ignored to death, John. Is that what you want?" Rowling replied.

Rowling has always maintained that her anti-trans stances and posts aren't based in hate or bigotry, but in protecting women. She has yet to clarify if her anti-asexual posts are based on the same motivations.