Former Miami Heat superstar Dwayne Wade admitted that he moved his family from Florida to California because of efforts by Gov. Ron DeSantis and GOP lawmakers to protect children from radical LGBTQ ideology and activists.
In an interview Thursday with the Showtime production “Headliners,” the 41-year-old Wade said he relocated because his family “would not be accepted or feel comfortable” in Florida.
Wade has a child, Zaya, who is a biological male who identifies as a girl. Zaya Wade came out as transgender in 2020.
“A lot of people don’t know that. I have to make decisions for my family, not just personal, individual decisions,” Wade told host Rachel Nichols.
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“I mean, obviously, the tax [situation in Florida] is great. Having Wade County is great. But my family would not be accepted or feel comfortable there. And so that’s one of the reasons why I don’t live there.”
Elsewhere in the interview, Wade added, “I had to educate myself, and yes, I had to get a better understanding. And yes, I had to lose some friends along the process, but I never wavered on loving my kids and trying to find space to get the chance to understand them.”
California, long a “sanctuary state” for illegal immigrants, became the first “sanctuary” for transgender children last October.
Left-wing Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a law that allows doctors to perform sex-change procedures on children who could not receive such treatments in their home states.
As for the Wades, NBC News reported in November 2022 that Siohvaughn Funches-Wade, Dwayne Wade’s ex-wife, filed a petition in a California court to block her former husband from allowing Zaya to change names or gender until reaching the age of majority.
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In court records, Funches-Wade argued that her ex-husband “may be 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, and will receive based upon [Dwayne’s] statements to me, on the basis of our child’s name and/or gender change.”
Dwayne denied the allegations.
In January, Black Enterprise reported that the couple’s divorce settlement allows Siohvaughn Funches-Wade to have input into “the major decisions affecting the care, welfare, activities, health, education, and religious upbringing of their two children.”
Funches-Wade lost in court in February, as a judge allowed Zaya’s name and gender change.
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