{"id":1722932,"date":"2022-11-03T10:18:49","date_gmt":"2022-11-03T14:18:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1722932"},"modified":"2022-11-03T10:19:57","modified_gmt":"2022-11-03T14:19:57","slug":"dwyane-wade-responds-to-ex-wife-objecting-to-childs-gender-change-this-isnt-a-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dwyane-wade-responds-to-ex-wife-objecting-to-childs-gender-change-this-isnt-a-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Dwyane Wade Responds To Ex-Wife Objecting To Child\u2019s Gender Change: \u2018This Isn\u2019t A Game\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\">28<\/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%2Fdwyane-wade-responds-to-ex-wife-objecting-to-childs-gender-change-this-isnt-a-game%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=1722932&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>Former NBA player <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/dwyane-wade\">Dwyane Wade<\/a> just responded to his ex-wife Siohvaughn Funches-Wade\u2019s claims that he\u2019s trying to make money off their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/transgender\">transgender<\/a>-identifying child Zaya\u2019s \u201cname and gender change.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The 40-year-old basketball took to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CkfgtPoo5QJ\/?hl=en\">Instagram<\/a> on Thursday to defend his parenting.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSince this must be the new way of parenting, I guess I have to address these allegations here, which is a damn shame,\u201d Wade wrote in the post. \u201cWhile I\u2019m on a life-changing trip in our motherland, Africa, I\u2019ve received a social media post about me forcing our 15 year old child to be someone she\u2019s not and to do something against her will. These are serious and harmful allegations that have hurt our children.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile none of us are surprised by Siohvaughn\u2019s attempt to fight Zaya\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/social-issues\">identity<\/a> and her unwavering attempt to drag my name through the mud, I\u2019m very disappointed that she continuously find ways of centering herself and HER needs, without regard to her children,\u201d he continued.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis report came out while Zaya was in class. This is a kid who has maintained a 4.0 GPA in honors classes while navigating all this unsolicited and harmful attention and debates about her gender and sexuality from those who are committed to not listening to her, much less even knowing her.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve given her the opportunity to reach out to Zaya\u2019s teachers, doctors and therapist over the years and even meet her friends, so she could get her own understanding of our child\u2019s needs for her LIFE,\u201d Wade shared in his statement. \u201cShe won\u2019t do it! She has not been to a school, recital, graduation, school dance, play date, practice, parent teacher conference etc and Zaya has given her every opportunity to try to get to know her. She won\u2019t do it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He later said, \u201cZaya is not that same 3 year child anymore and she\u2019s screaming that to the world but most importantly to her Mother! No one in our house would ever force Zaya or any of our children to do anything against their will, much less force an identity on them. This isn\u2019t a game for my family and definitely not for Zaya. This is her life.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Funches-Wade and Wade were married from 2002 to 2010 and are the parents of 20-year-old son Zaire Wade and Zaya. The former NBA star also has an 8-year-old son Xavier with former partner Aja Metoyer and a 3-year-old daughter Kaavia with his current wife, actress Gabrielle Union.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Wade\u2019s response comes after Funches-Wade filed court documents to block Zaya from legally changing their name and gender before the age of 18.<\/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 the legal filing says, as The Daily Wire previously <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/nba-greats-ex-begs-court-to-block-their-trans-kids-gender-change-says-dad-positioned-to-profit\">reported<\/a>.<\/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 Wade\u2019s ex-wife also shared in the court documents.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\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>Zaya, a biological male, came out as transgender in 2020, and Dwyane has been a considerable advocate ever since. He previously told People magazine 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>Former NBA player Dwyane Wade just responded to his ex-wife Siohvaughn Funches-Wade\u2019s claims that he\u2019s trying to make money off their transgender-identifying child Zaya\u2019s \u201cname and gender change.\u201d The 40-year-old basketball took to Instagram on Thursday to defend his parenting. \u201cSince this must be the new way of parenting, I guess I have to address &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":345,"featured_media":1722935,"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-1722932","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\/1722932","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\/345"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1722932"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1722932\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1722935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1722932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1722932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1722932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}