Zaya, the 15-year-old daughter of former NBA star Dwyane Wade, is now legally a woman. The celebrity portal TMZ.com published this Saturday that a Los Angeles County judge signed off on the new legal identity for the athlete’s transgender daughter.
According to this outlet, Wade’s 15-year-old daughter is now legally Zaya Malachi Airami’s Wade, and the judge also ruled in favor of her official gender change from male to female.
Dwyane and his now-wife, model Gabrielle Union, had been calling the girl Zaya for years when she came out as trans in 2020
This legal change wasn’t without controversy, however, as Dwyane Wad and his ex-wife and Zaya’s mother, Siohvaughn Funches-Wade, disagreed over the girl’s gender reassignment.
The former Miami Heat player (among others) said the trade was in his children’s best interests and called his ex-wife’s opposition “nonsense”.