let's talk about why she came out as transgender, I think a little over a year
ago, I mean, and I think that that just was eye opening for
many people to see how the two of you would handle it and how the difference
that she's made in your life, you said she has been your greatest teacher, how so
she was my greatest teacher before, before I knew before she came home and
said that she was transgender and it was just the way that I was raised,
I was raised like man up and once I got around desire, it just, I couldn't,
I just, I couldn't something inside of me, I couldn't even like punish her, right?
And so she started teaching me that it's not one way that like I'm not Zayer dad,
you have to, you actually have to parent me, you actually have to get to, you know,
and learn, was that hard for you, Dwayne, was it hard to make the adjustment?
It wasn't hard to, because I love her, you know, my wife was very important,
her care was ia her hand on Zaia was way different than mine and so
I learned how to be you know, a little bit softer,
I learned how to not come in with so much aggression and over talking,
I learned how to sit back and actually listen retired NBA Star, Dwyane wade,
there does a lot of those kinds of views talking publicly about his transgender
daughter Zaia and and the struggle, she's going through and
actually presenting and him learning about how to parent her better.
A lot of those things are happening.
But one of those parenting moves that he's making is earlier this year, he did file
a petition to legally change her name and assigned gender on her birth certificate.
He mentioned his wife, he's talking about Gabrielle union.
His ex wife, the mother of his child is objecting to it.
Here's a couple of things in her doc legal documents objected to this.
Her name is steven.
Funches Funches wade's legal document dated october 31st and filed with the L.
A. County court.
She requested her child who's 15.5 be given the opportunity at the age of
majority, which is 2.5 years away to make this monumental decision for themselves.
Funches wade claimed in court documents that Dwyane wade did not consult her about
the decision to legally change their daughter's name to Zaire.
Wade alleged that her ex husband told her in april of 2022.
They would make Zia famous with this name change.
That's according to Entertainment tonight, which obtained a copy of this.
She said she is concerned that our child is being commercialized at a young age and
is also worried about the uncontrollable consequences of media exposure.
I have concerns that Dwayne maybe 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 now Dwayne wade did respond,
He talked about how she's absent mom, She doesn't show up many of these things and
he came out very fiery, very angry and said there's so
many things that his daughter has been going through that he says his ex wife
is not dealing with, it's become a public spat and it's pretty uncomfortable and
honestly the daughter is the one that's catching, I think a lot of this attention.
So I Dwyane wade put out a long statement saying, look, I don't want to talk about
any of this and this personal stuff, but she's making me do it.
And and explains, Zaia is a brilliant girl, she's got a four point G.
P. A.
She's the light of my life and her biological mother hasn't seen her in 10
years, she won't parent her, she doesn't get care,
she never shows up and now she's gonna show up here and try to get money.
Okay, that's what this is about, don't get it twisted.
So having read both sides, man, Dwyane wade's is an american hero.
I love the way that he's standing up for his daughter.
But to me Jared maybe what's Amazing is that the right wing will see this and
see a dad who has been there the entire 15 years,
been great to his daughter and raised a brilliant daughter and
say he's the bad guy and the mom that never even showed up and
now he's saying hateful things about her own daughter, that she's the hero.
Isen't it amazing that we live in the same world?
But you know what, I also think that what black families will see is a black man
being unapologetically loving to his child, regardless of what that looks like.
Because as black parents, a lot of us have been put in a box on how we're supposed to
raise our Children and he said absolutely not, I'm gonna love my child and
the way they They deserve and the way that they need.
And I think that is the bigger picture that we need to be paying attention to.
You have been an absent mother for 10 years, he has been present and
seen the ups and the downs of these opportunities.
The ups and the downs of house IA has lived her life.
And so I believe that he has all the stay in the world and my mom is out of pocket.
Yeah.
So we live in alternate universes, but I'm in Dwyane wade's universe, and I love
that he's been there for his daughter the entire time and raised a brilliant
daughter who's done, who's great in school, great and everything else.
So I'm not interested in the person who wasn't there, telling us what,
what the daughter should do