NBA: The speech of Dwyane Wade's daughter, a 12-year-old transgender girl | NBA 2019

“What is the point of being on this earth trying to be someone you're not? It's like you're not even living as you are. That is the dumbest concept for me. S sincere. And I don't care what is the most stereotyped way of 'being t'. “

Speaks Zaya, a 12 year old transgender girl I was born as Zion, son of former NBA champion Dwyane Wade and actress Gabrielle Union, and that for some time “identifies with the female gender”.

Wade, retired from the NBA since last season, has confessed in several interviews that he has had to educate himself and learn about the LGTBIQ + community. And that even, with his wife, he has contacted the actresses of the famous Netflix series'Pose', which deals, with real characters, about the difficulties of the Latino, African-American and LGTBIQ + community in New York City.

“When our children come with a question, with some problem, with something … It is our job as parents to listen to them, give them the best information we can and the best answer. And that doesn't change because it's something about sexuality“, acknowledged Wade in the Ellen DeGeneres program.

“I had to look in the mirror and say: 'What if your son comes home and tells you he is gay? What will you do? How will you be? How will you act? It's not about him. He knows what it is. It's about you. Who are you? ” analyzed the former player a few weeks ago on a radio show.

Gabrielle Union It has been the one that has published the video of the mentioned speech of his daughter, recorded by Wade himself. “Meet Zaya. She is compassionate, carious, an intelligent whip and we are very proud of her. It's okay to listen, love and respect your children exactly as they are. Love and light, “wrote the actress.