Dwyane Wade Claps Back At Ex-Wife’s Claim He’s Trying To Profit Off Trans Daughter: ‘Very Disappointed’

Dywane Wade is clapping backmost astatine his ex-wife, Siohvaughn Funches, aft she filed a petition against him connected Nov. 2. In the petition, Siohvaughn accused Dwyane of trying to nett disconnected their daughter, Zaya Wade’s, sanction and sex change, according to the tribunal documents, obtained by PEOPLE. The present 15-year-old came retired arsenic transgender successful 2019 and started going by ‘Zaya’ and utilizing she/her pronouns. Siohvaughn claimed she was acrophobic that Dwyane “may beryllium pressuring our kid to determination guardant with the name and sex change successful bid to capitalize connected the fiscal opportunities that helium has received.” She asked the tribunal for Zaya to not beryllium capable to alteration her sanction and sex until she is 18 years aged oregon “the property of majority.”

On Nov. 3, Dwyane took to Instagram to contented his effect to Siohvaughn. “While I’m connected a life-changing travel to our motherland, Africa, I’ve received a societal media station astir maine forcing our 15 twelvemonth aged kid to beryllium idiosyncratic she’s not and to bash thing against her will,” Dwyane wrote. “These are serious and harmful allegations that person wounded our children.” Dwyane accused Siohvaughn of trying to “drag [his] sanction done the mud” insisted that she has not “truly spoken and LISTENED to Zaya implicit each these years” astir her sex identity.

“I’ve fixed her the accidental to scope retired to Zaya’s teachers, doctors and therapist implicit the years and adjacent conscionable her friends, truthful she could get her ain knowing of our child’s request for her LIFE!” Dwyane alleged. “She won’t bash it! She has not been to a school, recital, graduation, schoolhouse dance, play date, practice, genitor teacher league etc. and Zaya has fixed her each accidental to effort to get to cognize her. She won’t bash it!” He besides claimed that Siohvaughn hasn’t made “any sacrifice oregon effort to permission her ain location to enactment successful her children’s lives successful implicit a decade.”

Dwyane Wade with his girl Zaya. (John Salangsang/Shutterstock)

He concluded his connection by reiterating that helium would ne'er unit Zaya to bash thing against her will. “This isn’t a crippled for my household and decidedly not for Zaya,” helium said. “This is her life! Siohvaughn has decided to beauteous overmuch beryllium an absent genitor to Zaya ALL ON HER OWN. As men, we get a atrocious rep for not showing up and being absentee fathers, but that’s not the lawsuit present due to the fact that I’m 10 toes down and I’m inactive going done the BS! I volition not beryllium connected my hands this clip and let her to marque a mockery of my dedication to my family. The precocious roadworthy has tally retired of existent estate.”

Dwyane and Siohvaughn were precocious schoolhouse sweethearts, who joined successful 2002. They broke up successful 2007 and helium filed for divorcement successful 2010, winning afloat custody of their 2 children successful 2011. Dwyane besides has a lad with Aja Metoyer, arsenic good arsenic a girl with now-wife Gabrielle Union. He besides raised his sister, Deanna’s, son, and was his ineligible guardian erstwhile helium was a minor.