This has been whispered about for years but rarely said out loud.
No one knows what is happening in the Wade household, so we can only go off what Dwyane Wade has said in the past.
He has stated that his son’s now daughter Zaya knew she wanted to be a girl early on, and the Wades decided they would support that and make Zaya the face of that community for young people. There is no question that Wade and Zaya have profited from that because we have seen them in ad campaigns.
The question is, who is the driving force behind this? Zaya or Dwyane Wade and Gabrielle Union. That is what Wade’s ex-wife Siohvaughn wants to find out.
Dwyane Wade’s ex-wife accused the former NBA star of exploiting their trans daughter Zaya’s gender identity for his own financial gain.
Siohvaughn Funches-Wade objected to her ex-husband’s petition to legally change the 15-year-old’s name due to “multiple factors” outlined in court documents obtained by Page Six.
The author, 41, alleges that Wade, 40, “is positioned to profit from the minor child’s name and gender change with various companies through contacts and marketing opportunities including but not limited to deals with Disney.”
She adds, “I have concerns that [Wade] 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.”
Funches-Wade claims that during an April 2022 meeting with Wade in Atlanta, the former pro baller told her that “a lot of money had been already made” in relation to Zaya’s “name and gender issue.”
“[Wade] 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,” the public speaker further alleges.
Funches-Wade then uses her trans daughter’s deadname in the filing, claiming, “Zion, who was present at the time, answered that various companies were interested and that Disney was a prospective company.”
Wade’s ex-wife also alleges in the objection that because Zaya’s transition has been highly publicized, “there will likely be media pressure on the minor child.” She asks that Zaya make this decision for herself when she is “at the age of majority” in two and a half years.
Wade and Funches had a legendary divorce after he left her for his now wife, Gabrielle Union.
It should be noted that Wade has full custody of their sons.
Flip the page for more about that and Funches’s claims.