{"id":288384,"date":"2020-02-18T20:30:48","date_gmt":"2020-02-19T03:30:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/b1124144"},"modified":"2020-02-18T20:30:48","modified_gmt":"2020-02-19T03:30:48","slug":"young-thug-is-accused-of-transphobia-after-misgendering-dwyane-wades-daughter-zaya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/music-news\/young-thug-is-accused-of-transphobia-after-misgendering-dwyane-wades-daughter-zaya\/","title":{"rendered":"Young Thug Is Accused of Transphobia After Misgendering Dwyane Wade&#8217;s Daughter Zaya"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"video-int-txt-0\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"39.688865764828\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-video-text\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"23.997918834547\">\n<p><strong>Young Thug&nbsp;<\/strong>is coming under fire for misgendering&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/dwyane_wade\">Dwyane Wade<\/a><\/strong>&#8216;s daughter, <strong>Zaya.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>While many celebrities <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1123813\/dwyane-wade-struggled-with-decision-to-share-daughter-zaya-s-journey-as-a-transgender-teen\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">expressed support and praise <\/a>for Dwyane and&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/gabrielle_union\">Gabrielle Union<\/a><\/strong>&#8216;s daughter, the rapper is one of the few people to come out against Zaya. In a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/youngthug\/status\/1229931599623380992?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">tweet <\/a>directed at the 12-year-old, he stated, &#8220;All I wanna say to dwade son is &#8216;GOD DONT MAKE MISTAKES&#8217; but hey live your true self.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Immediately after, Young Thug was&nbsp;hit with a barrage of tweets accusing him of being transphobic. Then, just a few hours later, he appeared to delete the same exact tweet.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Neither Dwyane nor Gabrielle have responded to his controversial tweet.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s unclear why Young Thug chose to make such a strong statement against the teen, especially he himself formerly stated he doesn&#8217;t believe in gender. &#8220;In my world, you can be a gangsta with a dress or you can be a gangsta with baggy pants,&#8221; he said for a Calvin Klein <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mtv.com\/news\/2901714\/young-thug-calvin-klein-gender\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">advertisement&nbsp;<\/a>in 2016. &#8220;I feel like there&#8217;s no such thing as gender.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-2\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"59\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"8\">\n<p>Moreover, the rapper&#8217;s appeared in dresses, skirts, heels and other clothing items that are typically associated with the female gender, which many people reminded him of in the responses to his inflammatory tweet.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"photo-txt-3\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"39.21327014218\">\n<div class=\"column post-content__image--left post-content__image\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"32\"> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image--full\" src=\"https:\/\/akns-images.eonline.com\/eol_images\/Entire_Site\/2019111\/rs_855x1024-191201092704-855-dwyane-wade-gabrielle-union-zion-kaavia-instagram-cjh-112819.jpg?fit=inside|900:auto&amp;output-quality=90\" title=\"Dwyane Wade, Gabrielle Union, Kids, Zion, Kaavia, Instagram, Thanksgiving 2019\" alt=\"Dwyane Wade, Gabrielle Union, Kids, Zion, Kaavia, Instagram, Thanksgiving 2019\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"image__credits\">Instagram \/ Gabrielle Union<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-photo-text\" readability=\"20.490196078431\">\n<p>Young Thug&#8217;s opinion aside, there&#8217;s no one more supportive of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1122203\/gabrielle-union-introduces-compassionate-loving-daughter-zaya-to-the-world\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Zaya coming out as transgender<\/a> than the Wade family. Dwyane said he feels a strong responsibility to voice and share his love for Zaya, because he knows one day Zaya will be an inspiration for other people in the world. &#8220;I looked at her and said, \u2018You are our leader. You are our leader and this is our opportunity to allow you to be a voice,'&#8221; he continued. &#8220;Right now, it&#8217;s through us because she&#8217;s 12 years old, but eventually it will be through her.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The basketball player <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1123813\/dwyane-wade-struggled-with-decision-to-share-daughter-zaya-s-journey-as-a-transgender-teen\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">later said in an interview<\/a> for&nbsp;<em>Good Morning America<\/em>, &#8220;We get a lot of hate from people. But along the way, we, inside, together, as the Wade family, we have to be the ones to have each other&#8217;s back. For us, it was important that Zaya understood that her family has her back.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1124144\/young-thug-is-accused-of-transphobia-after-misgendering-dwyane-wade-s-daughter-zaya?cmpid=rss-000000-rssfeed-365-topstories&#038;utm_source=eonline&#038;utm_medium=rssfeeds&#038;utm_campaign=rss_topstories\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: E! Online<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Young Thug&nbsp;is coming under fire for misgendering&nbsp;Dwyane Wade&#8216;s daughter, Zaya. While many celebrities expressed support and praise for Dwyane and&nbsp;Gabrielle Union&#8216;s daughter, the rapper is one of the few people to come out against Zaya. In a tweet directed at the 12-year-old, he stated, &#8220;All I wanna say to dwade son is &#8216;GOD DONT MAKE [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-288384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-music-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-09-28 19:28:51","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KIDN - The Lift FM","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=288384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288384\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=288384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=288384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=288384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}