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Dwyane Wade's transgender daughter has been granted an official name change after a six-month court battle, according to multiple reports. The former professional basket player filed a petition in court in August 2022 to change his child's name. The 15-year-old child, born a boy named Zion Malachi Airamis Wade, came out in 2020 and wanted to be called Zaya after identifying as a female at age 12.

Gov. Murphy signs order protecting transgender residents in NJ.Photo by(Liudmila Chernetska/iStock) A new ordinance under NJ governor Phil Murphy will protect name-change records from the public. Murphy said the action is intended to protect the rights of New Jersey’s transgender residents.

We always hear about Martin Luther King, Jr. but rarely hear about his father, Martin Luther King, Sr. and perhaps it is because he was most active when many of us were too young to notice.

The Federal Department of the Interior has suggested new names for geographic sites that have a derogatory word for Indigenous women in their names. The new proposal stands to affect 660 place names that use the term “sq___”, according to figures from the U.S. Board on Geographic Names.