{"id":1721282,"date":"2022-11-02T10:33:50","date_gmt":"2022-11-02T14:33:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1721282"},"modified":"2022-11-02T10:34:08","modified_gmt":"2022-11-02T14:34:08","slug":"nba-greats-ex-begs-court-to-block-their-trans-kids-gender-change-says-dad-positioned-to-profit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nba-greats-ex-begs-court-to-block-their-trans-kids-gender-change-says-dad-positioned-to-profit\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA Great\u2019s Ex Begs Court To Block Their Trans Kid\u2019s Gender Change, Says Dad \u2018Positioned To Profit\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">34<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fnba-greats-ex-begs-court-to-block-their-trans-kids-gender-change-says-dad-positioned-to-profit%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1721282&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The ex-wife of former <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/nba-star-dwyane-wade-files-petition-to-legally-change-childs-gender-name\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">NBA superstar Dwyane Wade<\/a> is asking a judge to stop their 15-year-old biological son from a gender transition, and accusing the future Hall of Famer of exploiting the child, according to a report.<\/p>\n<p>Legal documents obtained by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/theblast.com\/347009\/dwyane-wade-ex-wife-accuses-transgender-daughter-financial-gain\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Blast<\/a> show Siohvaughn Funches-Wade is seeking to block her 15-year-old child Zaya, previously known as Zion, from legally changing name and gender until reaching age 18. The child came out as transgender in 2020, and has received lucrative modeling contracts with brands including Tiffany and Dove.\u00a0Funches-Wade said Zaya is currently in talks with Disney, and said the retired cager is pushing the transition because he stands to make money.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have concerns that (Dwyane) may be pressuring our child to move forward with the name and gender change in order to capitalize on the financial opportunities that he has received from companies,\u201d Funches-Wade asserted in the legal filing.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">At least one parent cares about this child, and I think this lawsuit could be significant. Also a textbook example of the evil of childhood transitioning. Started at 12, monetized in a big way.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/xPcsbCd6VD\">https:\/\/t.co\/xPcsbCd6VD<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Faye Hausendorff (@FayeH321) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FayeH321\/status\/1587804744315199488?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 2, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Funches-Wade and Wade divorced in 2010. He has since married actress Gabrielle Union, and the couple have frequently <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/dwyane-wade-hails-12-year-old-trans-son-as-lgbtq-leader-in-instagram-post-allow-her-to-re-introduce-herself\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">discussed their enthusiastic embrace of Zaya\u2019s transition<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Funches-Wade made the plea in response to a filing by Wade to allow Zaya to legally change names from\u00a0Zion Malachi Airamis Wade to Zaya Malachi Airamis Wade.\u00a0Wade said it was his call, and that he was only notifying his ex-wife \u201cas a courtesy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Funches-Wade claims the former couple\u2019s final custody order from an Illinois court states the two \u201cshall discuss with and obtain input in the major decisions affecting care, welfare, activities, health, education and religious upbringing\u201d of their two children.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Funches-Wade\u2019s attorney, Mark Gross, said Wade is \u201cpositioned to profit from the minor child\u2019s name and gender change with various companies through contacts and marketing opportunities including but not limited to deals with Disney.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Funches-Wade said her ex-husband told her Zaya\u2019s transition is a ticket to fame and money.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c(Dwyane) told me that he intended to make our child very famous due to the name and gender issue and also informed me that there would be endorsements\/contracts associated therewith,\u201d she wrote in the court documents.\u00a0\u201cI am concerned that our child is being commercialized at a young age and also of the uncontrollable consequences of media exposure i.e. cyberbullying, statements and\/or pictures taken out of context of our child, and the unwanted spotlight focused on our child.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Wade, who retired in 2019, and his ex were married in 2002 and also have a 20-year-old son, Zaire.<\/p>\n<p>A hearing for Zaya\u2019s identity change is scheduled for December.<\/p>\n<p>Wade told People magazine in a past interview that Zaya\u2019s transition is an inspiration.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen I look at Zaya, it gives me hope because I\u2019m like, okay, we raised [our kids] to be authentic,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ex-wife of former NBA superstar Dwyane Wade is asking a judge to stop their 15-year-old biological son from a gender transition, and accusing the future Hall of Famer of exploiting the child, according to a report. Legal documents obtained by\u00a0The Blast show Siohvaughn Funches-Wade is seeking to block her 15-year-old child Zaya, previously known &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":729,"featured_media":1721285,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1721282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1721282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/729"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1721282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1721282\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1721285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1721282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1721282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1721282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}