Dwayne Wade Advises Dads Who Have Transgender Children: ‘Our Kids Are Going To Be Who They Are’

Dwayne Wade Offers Advice To Dads Who Have Transgender Children

In a new interview with Variety, Dwayne Wade offered advice to fathers who have transgender kids and in his words; “Our kids are going to be who they are”. Prior, he confessed to wearing heels and his sisters clothes as a kid with reference to his trans child Zaya.

“I have to thank you because you’ve been amazing with your daughter. It’s pretty incredible. What keeps you going fighting for her?” the interviewer asked.

“Just being, you know, just being a father and just seeing my child grow up every day and doing what you supposed to do as a parent is to make sure that you sit back and you know you see what it is in life that they want to do and you try to go there with them and try to help them mold them into what it is they want to be and who they want to be. So we’re just doing our part, you know, as parents and we love our kids and we get to see them,” Dwyane Wade replied.

 

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“Every day, that’s what people in the outside don’t get to see, but we know them and we see them all the time. Yeah, and we believe them when they tell us who they are.”

“What do you say to a dad out there who’s daughter has just come home and said I’m trans? What do you say to that dad?” the interviewer asked.

“Well, I say the moment when you were in the hospital when you grabbed your daughter and you looked at your daughter and all the things that went through your mind. All emotions that went through your mind and how much love fills your heart at that moment. Don’t let that ever leave you no matter what like the one thing’s parents. What we do is we find out.”

He continued, “Any means and we try to make him just like us, which is understand like our kids are going to be who they are. It’s our job to help mold them and help. Try to, you know, push them in the right places that they want to go. But just remember that moment what you said in that in that hospital that day they were.”