There was a time when Dwyane Wade He covered the covers of all the sports media for his exploits on a basketball court. It was the time when he shone in franchises of the NBA Like the Miami Heatlos Chicago Bulls and the Cleveland Cavaliers. Next to some of the best players in history such as LeBron James The how Shaquille O’Nealthe listener from Illinois managed to become a mass icon.
However, his best years in the sport are over. Retired since April 2019, since then he has given more to talk about his private life than about his association with any of the NBA teams or with something related to basketball. Now, Wade continues to make headlines for his relationship with his daughter He willknown for coming out as transsexual when she was just 12 years old.
The problems of the great NBA legend related to his daughter now focus on the strong accusations he has received from his first wife, Siohvaughn Funches-Wadewho in turn is the mother of little Zaya, who is now 15. Dwyane and Siohvaughn have an extensive legal dispute over the situation of their daughter, who became a public figure after announcing her desire to transition when she was only a girl on her way to adolescence.
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Now, some time later, he has become a fashion icon and his mother, Siohvaughn, accuses his father, Dwyane Wade, of taking advantage of that circumstance to enrich himself even more and to make his fortune even larger. In fact, he has even gone so far as to ensure that he is committing a serious misdemeanor exploitation of minors with Zaya herself because of his advertising commitments.
Dwyane Wade, a problem
Siohvaughn Funches-Wade was the first wife of Dwyane Wade and mother of the mediatic Zaya, a girl who has undoubtedly had a peculiar life behind her back despite still being a young woman. Siohvaughn has recently accused her ex-husband of profiting from the alleged sexual identity of her daughter to the point that she wants to go to court to stop a process that would be being promoted by the former player himself.
Dwyane Wade is helping Zaya change her name and gender on her birth certificate. Something that, on the other hand, Siohvaughn is trying to avoid even though she knows that she has it really complicated. The portal The Blast has had access to court documents in which Siohvaughn begged a judge to impose an order prohibiting her daughter Zaya from legally changing her gender from male to female until she was 18 years old.
Siohvaughn is not only linked to Zaya, as she is also the mother of Dwyane Wade’s other eldest son. The little girl of hers decided to start her transition in the year 2019 and since then she has become a fashion icon. For this reason, she considers that her ex-partner is pressuring her to get higher and higher contracts in order to enrich herself even more by having total control over her accounts and possessions.
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According to the young woman’s mother, Wade would be exploiting Zaya as a commercial product despite still being a child. For this reason, she wants to delay any process until she turns 18 and so she intends to ask a judge for it. She hopes that until then she can have time to reflect if she really wants to change her name and her sex so that she doesn’t decide under the professional pressure that Wade is now exerting on her figure. Siohvaughn wants to keep the influence of the former NBA away as much as possible.
“I am concerned that he may be pressuring our son to go ahead with the name and gender change to capitalize on the financial opportunities he has received from some companies. I am concerned that our son is being marketed at a young age and also the uncontrollable consequences of media exposure, i.e. cyberbullying, statements and/or photographs taken out of context of our son, and unwanted attention focused on our son. Siohvaughn still talks about her son and does not refer to Zaya as a girl.
Zaya’s peculiar life
Zaya is one of the daughters of Siohvaughn and Dwyane Wade. In the year 2019, when she was only 12 and was Zion, she decided to announce that she did not feel like a boy, but a girl, and that she wanted to change both her name and her sex and transition to the new her life as a woman. This news came as an absolute shock because of her relationship with the world of sports through her father, one of the best basketball players in the world in recent decades. Thanks to her talent, she became the biggest legend of the Miami Heat.
However, now he is more of a protagonist for directing the career of his daughter, before his son Zion, in fashion. Since Zaya decided to make public her desire to transition to the female sex, offers have not stopped raining down on her to work as a model. And Wade has encouraged her, according to her mother pressured to the point of exploitation, not to miss out on any of those opportunities.
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In recent months, he has gained hundreds of thousands of followers on his social networks who give their opinion about everything he does in his life. And he too is earning hundreds of thousands of euros having signed huge contracts with companies like Tiffany o Dove. Such is its growth that Siohvaughn herself has confessed that she is already in talks with the company Disneyinterested in your case to open this world to stories of transsexuality.
Zaya’s mother, still Zion for her, is very worried because this new life could lead to serious physical and mental health problems for the 15-year-old girl. The parents had a meeting a few weeks ago in which sparks flew, since Wade made it very clear to the young woman’s mother that he would be the one who would decide what was going to happen from that moment with Zaya.
Wade currently has the legal right to make decisions on behalf of his daughter, but he would inform Siohvaughn out of courtesy, though without subjecting those choices to family debate. The former NBA player and his former partner divorced in 2011 and since then the star of the national team USA He has custody of all his children. Both were involved in a legal battle for said custody for four years, but the NBA legend ended up taking the game. And now, according to his ex-wife, he is mercilessly exploiting young Zaya.
