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Dywane Wade is clapping again at his ex-wife, Siohvaughn Funches, after she filed a petition towards him on Nov. 2. In the petition, Siohvaughn accused Dwyane of making an attempt to revenue off their daughter, Zaya Wade’s, identify and gender change, based on the courtroom paperwork, obtained by PEOPLE. The now 15-year-old got here out as transgender in 2019 and began going by ‘Zaya’ and utilizing she/her pronouns. Siohvaughn claimed she was involved that Dwyane “could also be pressuring our baby to maneuver ahead with the identify and gender change with a view to capitalize on the monetary alternatives that he has obtained.” She requested the courtroom for Zaya to not be capable of change her identify and gender till she is eighteen years outdated or “the age of majority.”
On Nov. 3, Dwyane took to Instagram to subject his response to Siohvaughn. “While I’m on a life-changing journey to our motherland, Africa, I’ve obtained a social media submit about me forcing our 15 12 months outdated baby to be somebody she’s not and to do one thing towards her will,” Dwyane wrote. “These are critical and dangerous allegations which have harm our kids.” Dwyane accused Siohvaughn of making an attempt to “drag [his] identify via the mud” insisted that she has not “really spoken and LISTENED to Zaya over all these years” about her gender id.
“I’ve given her the chance to succeed in out to Zaya’s lecturers, docs and therapist through the years and even meet her mates, so she may get her personal understanding of our baby’s want for her LIFE!” Dwyane alleged. “She received’t do it! She has not been to a faculty, recital, commencement, college dance, play date, follow, dad or mum instructor convention and so forth. and Zaya has given her each alternative to attempt to get to know her. She received’t do it!” He additionally claimed that Siohvaughn hasn’t made “any sacrifice or effort to depart her own residence to take part in her kids’s lives in over a decade.”
He concluded his message by reiterating that he would by no means drive Zaya to do something towards her will. “This isn’t a sport for my household and undoubtedly not for Zaya,” he stated. “This is her life! Siohvaughn has determined to just about be an absent dad or mum to Zaya ALL ON HER OWN. As males, we get a nasty rep for not displaying up and being absentee fathers, however that’s not the case right here as a result of I’m ten toes down and I’m nonetheless going via the BS! I can’t sit on my arms this time and permit her to make a mockery of my dedication to my household. The excessive highway has run out of actual property.”
Dwyane and Siohvaughn have been highschool sweethearts, who married in 2002. They broke up in 2007 and he filed for divorce in 2010, profitable full custody of their two kids in 2011. Dwyane additionally has a son with Aja Metoyer, in addition to a daughter with now-wife Gabrielle Union. He additionally raised his sister, Deanna’s, son, and was his authorized guardian when he was a minor.
