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Making it official. Dwyane Wade filed a motion to change his daughter Zaya’s gender and name more than two years after he announced that she is transgender.Wade, 40, submitted legal documents that requested his child’s name is officially changed from Zion Malachi Airamis Wade to Zaya Malachi Airamis Wade, according to The Blast.The professional basketball player first opened up about his daughter’s journey in February 2020. “First of all, me and my wife, Gabrielle Union, we are proud parents of a child in the LGBTQ+ community, and we’re proud allies as well,” Wade said on The Ellen DeGeneres Show, adding, “We take our roles and our responsibilities as parents very seriously.”During the appearance, Wade recalled the first time Zaya, 15, explained her experience as a transgender woman to him.“[She] said, ‘Hey, so I want to talk to you guys.

I think going forward, I’m ready to live my truth. And I want to be referenced as she and her. I would love for you guys to call me Zaya,’” he explained at the time. “Now it’s our job to one, go out and get information, to reach out to every relationship that we have.

We’re just trying to figure out as much information as we can to make sure that we give our child the best opportunity to be her best self.”The athlete also noted that it was a parent’s job “to listen” to their children and to “give them the best information that we can, the best feedback that we can.

And that doesn’t change because sexuality is now involved in it.”Wade shares Zaya and son Zaire, 20, with his ex Siohvaughn Funches.