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Dwyane Wade is speaking retired against his ex-wife's "serious" claims astir their family.
The NBA alum took to his Instagram Nov. 3 to address Siohvaughn Funches-Wade's caller ineligible filing, obtained by E! News, successful which she asked a California tribunal to contradict Dwyane's petition to legally alteration their 15-year-old girl Zaya Wade's sanction and gender.
"Given [Dwyane's] high-profile presumption arsenic a nonrecreational athlete, our children's lives person been highly publicized," Siohvaughn—who besides shares Zaire Wade, 20, with Dwyane—stated successful the docs. "[Dwyane] has appeared connected nationalist tv shows and successful media reports regarding our child's sanction and sex change. I americium acrophobic that our kid is being commercialized astatine a young property and besides of the uncontrollable consequences of media vulnerability i.e. cyber bullying, statements and/or pictures taken retired of discourse of our child, and unwanted spotlight focused connected our child."
"I person concerns that [Dwyane] whitethorn beryllium pressuring our kid to determination guardant with the sanction and sex alteration successful bid to capitalize connected the fiscal opportunities that helium has received from companies," Siohvaughn continued, "and volition person based upon [Dwyane's] statements to me, connected the ground of our child's sanction and/or sex change."
Per the docs, Siohvaughn is asking for Zaya to determine "at the property of majority" if she wants to determination guardant with legally changing her sanction and gender.
In Dwyane's societal media response, helium said it's a "damn shame" that helium has to code these claims.
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"While I'm connected a life-changing travel successful 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 began. "These are superior and harmful allegations that person wounded our children."
The 40-year-old—who besides shares girl Kaavia, 3, with woman Gabrielle Union, and Xavier, 8, with Aja Metoyer—went connected to enactment that portion "none of us" are amazed by Siohvaughn's ineligible move, he's "very disappointed" by her decision.
"This study came retired portion Zaya was successful class," Dwyane noted. "This is simply a kid who has maintained a 4.0 GPA successful honors classes portion navigating each this unsolicited and harmful attraction and debates astir her sex and sexuality."
The jock past made it clear, "No 1 successful our location would ever unit Zaya oregon immoderate of our children to bash thing against their will, overmuch little unit an individuality connected them. This isn't a crippled for my household and decidedly not for Zaya. This is her life!"
Dwyane concluded his connection by stating that his lawyer volition beryllium successful interaction astir the tribunal filing.
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