Dwyane Wade blasts ex-wife’s claims about benefiting from transgender child’s name modification

Previous NBA star Dwyane Wade declined allegations from his ex-wife that he’s trying to profit from their transgender child’s shift, stating in court files submitted Tuesday that his previous partner is potentially attempting to relitigate their divorce or perform a “project of individual attacks.”

Wade’s ex-wife, Siohvaughn Funches-Wade, submitted an objection previously this month to the previous Miami Heat shooting guard’s August petition to Los Angeles Superior Court looking for to lawfully alter the name of their 15-year-old child, Zaya.

In the files, Funches-Wade declared her ex-husband broke their custody arrangement since he never ever attempted going over the name modification with her.

She likewise implicated him of potentially “pressing” their kid to move on with the “name and gender modification in order to capitalize” on associated monetary chances.

However the files submitted Tuesday state that Funches-Wade reacted to an e-mail signaling her to the petition by decreasing to go over “‘ optional matters’ till her relationship and bond with her kid was ‘totally recovered and brought back.'”

And the files explained her profit-seeking claims as “ridiculous” and “disparaging at their core.”

” Dwyane submitted this Petition since Zaya asked him to,” the files state. “It is uncertain if Siohvaughn’s objective is to relitigate her divorce and custody disagreement with Dwyane, or to resume her project of individual attacks versus Dwyane, however it is clear that her objections have little bit, if anything, to do with Zaya’s benefit.”

An attorney for Funches-Wade did not instantly react to an ask for remark.

Wade has actually been openly encouraging of Zaya, who came out in 2020. In an interview on the “The Ellen DeGeneres Program,” he stated that he and his partner, star Gabrielle Union, are “proud parents of a child in the LGBTQ+ neighborhood.”

Zaya, an expert design, has actually explained coming out as “blissful” and “releasing,” even as she handles transphobia from others.

” There are truly individuals out there who believe that you’re a kid, this is a stage, or you do not really understand what you’re speaking about,” Zayasaid in a clip from the Logo30 series “I understand that I’m trans and it’s not like one day I simply went, ‘I wish to check out being trans.’ No. So simply draw it up. We are who we are.”

Jo Yurcaba contributed