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MRC Hates Dwyane Wade For Supporting His Transgender Child
We've previously noted the Media Research Center's sick contempt for NBA star Dwyane Wade for supporting his transgender child. It has continued to spew at at Wade for expressing parental love for his child. Jay Maxson -- who, ironoically, remains so anonymous that we don't know what sex this sports blogger is -- ranted in a November 2021 post:
Want a "model" family that will make you a hero of the Left? Encourage one of your children to claim gender confusion and then tell the world how incredibly wonderful that is. This worked to perfection for former NBA all-star like Dwyane Wade, who said Tuesday night on Comedy Central's The Daily Show recently that his transgender son is developing into a beautiful young woman.
Papa Wade appeared with Trevor Noah on The Daily Show to promote his photo memoir, Dwyane, but the former basketball star's support for the transgender movement is what was memorable. Noah asked him about his son Zaya (appearing at far left in photo), who assumed a female identity two years ago at the age of 12. Embracing the child's gender confusion, Dwyane and his wife Gabrielle Union are considered among the best moms and dads ever by the Left.
On Monday, Delilah Gray of Yahoo Life fawned all over Zaya's appearance in a Wade family photo. The photo was on a "whole other level" and Zaya "stole the show," she wrote. "But seriously, Zaya looks so stunning in her suit and pointed boots — and we're so happy to see her doing amazing." Zaya's life has been "a whirlwind so far after coming out nearly two years ago as a transgender woman. She's been blossoming this past year with her new i-D photoshoot and advocating for people to be their most authentic selves."
Gray added that Zaya's parents are the "absolute best" (as they use the child like a pawn for the transgender movement).
Maxson whined in a May 6 post:
Dwyane Wade was an NBA champion and all-star who's now in retirement and shilling for the LGBT agenda. His son, Zaya, announced at the age of 12 he was a "girl, but Wade is now saying he held his "daughter" in the hospital the day "she" was born. This startling contradiction of family history appeared in a Variety magazine interview Wednesday.
Wade also says Zaya actually knew he was a girl at the age of three. Even though children that young do not understand biology or know what transgenderism is all about. Also, he says, he was looking at his "daughter" when Zaya was born – 12 years before he came out to his family.
Papa Wade was slow to get with the LGBT program, but now he's busy revising family and gender history. Of course, the left-stream media is not calling out Wade on his amazing and bizarre discombobulation of family history.
Zaya Wade has previously attended pride events, and Dwyane Wade publicly speaks out about the proper use of pronouns. Though he's butchering biology, gender and grammar in the process.
Maxson added: "Wade has been criticized for his parenting ability; he recently posted a photo of Zaya kissing a trans boyfriend, and some responders said he's failing as a father." Yes, transphobes like Maxson would think Wade is "failing" his child by offering love and support; they would rather that Wade disown Zaya for not conforming to right-wing gender ideology.
Maxson's fellow sports blogger, John Simmons, issued his own attack on Wade and his child in a June 9 post:
Dwayne Wade is afraid for his son's life, or as he would want you to say, his daughter.
At the TIME100 Summit on Tuesday, the three-time NBA Champion said that he fears that Zaya, his 15-year-old transgendered daughter, will live in a world where he will be hated.
"As blessed as it is for my daughter to have parents who can support her, I'm still afraid every moment she leaves the house," he told CNN's Poppy Harlow at the event. "And not just because of gun violence, but because of the way people perceive her in this world."
Wade said in his emotionally-driven rant that he is afraid for Zaya because many states are banning transgendered women in sports or preventing doctors from giving gender-affirming care for youth (which are good things, by the way).
Interestingly, Simmons didn't dispute Wade's contention that transphobes like himself are putting Zaya's life in danger -- apparently, he's good with the idea that transgender people should be afraid to go outside for fear of their lives. Instead, he lectured Wade on being a parent -- despite offering no evidence that he is one himself:
First of all, a three year old is barely in any position to be taking care of their own basic needs, let alone decide one day that they are transgender. Wade and his wife, Gabrielle Union, should have immediately thought to themselves, "We should try to correct his thinking."
Second, instead of Wade actually doing his job to persuade and correct his son, he let him go down this long and dark road of building his life on a lie.
Third, he makes the decision to go on stage at an event put on by the most iconic magazine in the world and not only support his son's decision, but ridicule those who stand for truth. He also had the audacity to say that he might even run for office someday in the future.
What a convoluted mess that just further shows how desperately our country needs strong fathers.
Yeah, Simmons' demand that Wade hate his child for being the person he is will surely go over well.
In a similar vein, Maxson expressed anger in a Aug. 22 post that Wade defied the wishes and violent threats of Maxson's fellow transphobes to continue to support Zaya:
In the goofy gender-bending world of the Left, boys will be girls and girls will be boys. Zion Wade, the son of retired NBA guard Dwyane Wade, is attempting to legally become Zaya Malachi Airamis Wade, the "daughter" of Dwyane Wade. Wade the father fears that Wade the son/daughter will be the victim of violence.
Despite fearing violence against his transgender child, Papa Wade last week filed a legal petition to change the name and gender of his youngest son. Zion came out seven years ago on the Ellen DeGeneres show as a transgender and said he prefers to go by "Zaya." The dad requested that a Los Angeles County superior court issue a legal decree recognizing that the minors' gender is changed to "female."
Also, the petition specifically cites the reason for the change: "to conform with gender identity." The court is expected to go along with this ruse, though gender is immutable.
"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 elder Wade said.
Zaya's parents (seen in photo with their trans son) take their role as parents so seriously, in fact, that throughout their child's life, they merely give in to whatever reality he attempts to create. Which is highly concerning, given that what's happening now can substantially impact the remainder of Zion Zaya's life.
The Wade parents seem more concerned about their own popularity, their son appearing on a red carpet and how "she" answered media questions and being how "she" is recognized as one of the "young faces and voices for the LGBTQ+ community." It's more about pleasing the Left than dealing with the child's confusion, and that's sad.
Like Simmons, Maxson did not dispute that Wade's fear of violence against Zaya is justified. Indeed, Maxson and Simmons care more about pleasing the hateful right-wing anti-LGBT ideologues they work for than try to comprehend the love a parent has for his child. That's even more sad than anything they can come up with.
Another Month, Another 'Existential Threat' At WND
WorldNetDaily is particularly fond of the phrase "existential threat," particularly when it applies to WND:
One of Joseph Farah's first money begs in 2018 carried the headline "Existential threat: WND needs your help."
A June 2021 column by Farah was headlined "The existential threat Google-Facebook represent to America." This echoed a column nder the same headline he wrote in 2019.
A month later, WND managing editor David Kupelian declared that "WND is facing an existential threat. How you can help."
An April 15 column by Farah was headlined "'Existential threat': WND seriously needs your help." Oddly, even though "existential threat" is in quote marks, that phrase does not actually appear in the column.
Which brings us to Farah's Sept. 23 column, which is headlined, yes, "Existential threat: WND needs your help." He went on to write:
For more than 25 years, WND, or WorldNetDaily, has championed the cause of "a free press for a free people," performing the vital job of fearlessly reporting the truth – something the "mainstream media" pretends to do, but, as is now painfully obvious to almost everyone, does not.
It's always been a challenge. Despite what many think, this is a very, very tough business.
While other top-tier alternative media organizations have been supported for years by billionaire backers, we at WND have pretty much always earned our own way – until recently.
The good side of that arrangement is, we've never been beholden to anyone other than the Good Lord. But these are exceedingly rough times in the news business. And right now, it pains me to tell you that not only have all WND's staffers had to accept pay cuts, but making payroll is often delayed as we attempt to overcome multiple crises that constitute an existential threat to the nation's oldest independent Christian online news-gathering company.
I'm asking you to help us in this time of need. It's not easy to make a plea like this to you, our faithful readers, and I do so in all humility.
I'll lay it out for you straight. We need to raise a minimum of $100,000 before the end of October.
We have questions. When WND did a money beg in early summer, he concluded it at the end of June by declaring that "we have been given a blessed reprieve from the urgent and imminent financial crisis we have been facing," citing a "particularly generous donor" who promised "another very significant contribution." But just a month later, Farah asserted that "We need to raise $65,000 by the end of August in order to pay our bills, including payroll." So one has to wonder about how WND is managing its money if it must continually beg for it so soon after claiming its needs had been filled. Honest answers from Farah will certainly not be forthcoming, as he continued:
I can't go into all the details of the problems we are facing – some are global (like the major drop in ad revenues for news websites) and some are specific to WND – but I will mention one thing you may not know.
WND has been completely demonetized by Google and YouTube, which has dramatically impacted our ad revenue.
That's because they see us as "dangerous" for publishing the information you need – such as the truth about the 2020 election, and about the dangerous "vaccines" that were mandated by government, and about the unbelievable way our kids are being mutilated in hospitals nationwide as part of today's youth transgender craze.
Farah is lying, of course. WND spreads lies about the election and about vaccines, and no company wants to do business with a documented liar. He went on to present WND's dishonesty and bias as virtues he thinks people should send himmoney to perpetuate:
I'm asking for the help of those who recognize the unique role WND plays in reaching the God-fearing American audience that, like us, supports limited government, national sovereignty and the traditional Judeo-Christian values that made America truly great.
Donald Trump can't fight this monster alone. The MAGA movement can't either. They need strong voices like WND's to help them accomplish Trump's genuinely pro-American agenda and, at the same time, "drain the swamp." WND played a critical role in the 2016 election, and we are facing a critical election in 2022.
Please, help us to weather this storm by giving as much as you can to support us in this critical hour.
If this weren't an absolute emergency, I would never suggest it is. We really need your help – and we need it fast.
Yet it's not such an emergency that Farah is going to change his business model and stop doing the things that brought WND to this "esistential threat" -- that is, publishing lies and pushing bias. Why would anyone reward Farah for committing the same missteps and expecting the results to change?
Updated: Thursday, October 13, 2022 7:24 PM EDT
MRC Complains That CNN Anchor Catches GOP Candidate Refusing To Answer Election Question
The Media Research Center's Kevin Tober complained in a Sept. 4 post that a CNN anchor called out a Republican politican for her non-answer on the 2020 election:
The leftist media is never happy. If a Republican candidate or elected official claims the 2020 election was stolen, they throw a tantrum, if a Republican admits President Joe Biden was legitimately elected and he is the current President, they continue asking the question until the exact party approved phrase is uttered. This was the case on Sunday morning's State of the Union on CNN, where co-anchor Dana Bash asked Washington state Republican Senatorial nominee Tiffany Smiley three times whether Joe Biden won the 2020 election. Each time she said yes, but a simple yes apparently wasn't good enough for Bash.
"Let's just drill down on this question," Bash prefaced before asking "simple yes or no, do you believe that Joe Biden won the 2020 election fair and square?"
Smiley responded "Yes, he's our President. Yes," before going on to point out how "in 2016 Hillary Clinton had concerns, Stacey Abrams had concerns" about their elections. "This is an issue on both sides of the aisle. This isn't a Democrat or Republican issue," Smiley added.
Not happy with the way Smiley answered the question, Bash demanded she answer it again in a way that Bash's Democrat party approves of: "you said that President Biden is our President. Was he fairly elected, legitimately elected?"
"Yes, Joe Biden is our President," Smiley answered and went on to say she's focused on the voters in her state and not debating the 2020 election.
Bash angrily snapped back that "you didn't say that he was legitimately elected. I just want to give you one more chance to say that or if you are comfortable with your answer, we'll move on."
Smiley once again repeated the same answer that she Bash gave twice: "Yes, I think I made it clear. He is our President and, again, I am focused on the voters of Washington state."
Bash never said what the correct answer to her question was, but apparently saying yes, Biden is our President, isn't the Democrat Party [sic] approved answer despite what you might have believed.
Of coruse, simply conceding that Biden is president is not the same thing as saying he was legitimately elected. Bash was trying to get an answer to that question, and Smiley refused to provide one.
Tober didn't mention that his employer also believes that Biden was not legitimately elected, what with its version of the Big Lie conspiracy theory Donald Trump has promoted, in which it hired Trump's own pollster to further the lie.And Tober himself didn't reveal his own answer to the question: Does he accept that Biden is the president, or has he bought into the Big Lie too?