{"id":42376,"date":"2022-06-08T19:41:26","date_gmt":"2022-06-08T19:41:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/dwyane-wade-fears-for-daughter-zaya-who-came-out-as-transgender\/"},"modified":"2022-06-08T19:41:26","modified_gmt":"2022-06-08T19:41:26","slug":"dwyane-wade-fears-for-daughter-zaya-who-came-out-as-transgender","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/dwyane-wade-fears-for-daughter-zaya-who-came-out-as-transgender\/","title":{"rendered":"Dwyane Wade fears for daughter, Zaya, who came out as transgender"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<aside class=\"gnt_em gnt_em__fp gnt_em_vp__tp gnt_em__el\" aria-label=\"Video - Dwyane Wade opens up about daughter Zaya\"\/>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">As lawmakers across the country continue to restrict the rights of transgender youth, parents share their growing fears.  One parent among those afraid is former NBA star Dwyane Wade, whose daughter, Zaya, came out as transgender in 2020.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">&#8220;To me, it&#8217;s a joke. This is our life. We live this,&#8221; Wade said of recent bans of transgender children from sports in an interview at TIME Magazine&#8217;s TIME100 Summit on Tuesday &#8220;When you&#8217;re out there making rules, if you &#8216;re not experiencing this, come and live a day with my daughter. Come and see how it is to walk through this world as her. &#8220;<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">There are currently 25 bills related to prohibiting transgender youth from competing in student athletics, according to Freedom For All Americans, which tracks LGBTQ legislation around the nation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\"><strong>OPINION:<\/strong> Ohio bill targeting transgender athletes with genital check is only about cruelty<\/p>\n<figure class=\"gnt_em gnt_em_img\"><\/figure>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">&#8220;As blessed as it is for my daughter to have parents who can support her, I&#8217;m still afraid every moment she leaves the house,&#8221; Wade said.  &#8220;And not just because of gun violence, but because of the way people perceive her in this world.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\"><strong>STAY UP-TO-DATE:<\/strong> Subscribe to our Sports newsletter now!<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\"><strong>BLACKBERRIES:<\/strong> Transgender swimmer Lia Thomas says she didn&#8217;t transition to gain advantage in college sport<\/p>\n<aside aria-label=\"advertisement\" class=\"gnt_m gnt_x gnt_x__lbl gnt_x__al\"\/>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Wade also shared how proud he was of Zaya&#8217;s journey and confidence since revealing her gender identity.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">&#8220;I went years without telling my chef that I don&#8217;t like cilantro on my burger &#8211; as an adult, it took me years to have the confidence to say that,&#8221; said Wade &#8220;My daughter, at 8 years old, had the confidence to say, &#8216;This is who I am. This is who I want to be.&#8217;  &#8220;<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\"><strong><em>Contact Analis Bailey at aabailey@usatoday.com or on Twitter @<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/analisbailey\" data-t-l=\":b|e|inline click|${u}\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">analisbailey<\/a>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"gnt_em_gl_i\" data-g-r=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/presto\/2019\/04\/09\/USAT\/c1c448c7-16b5-4511-a296-e07476da58ed-XXX_C10_WADE_2_27.JPG?resize=660%2C372&#038;ssl=1\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/presto\/2019\/04\/09\/USAT\/c1c448c7-16b5-4511-a296-e07476da58ed-XXX_C10_WADE_2_27.JPG?crop=2463,1385,x1,y42&amp;width=1320&amp;height=744&amp;format=pjpg&amp;auto=webp 2x\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" width=\"660\" height=\"372\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As lawmakers across the country continue to restrict the rights of transgender youth, parents share their growing fears. One parent among those afraid is former NBA star Dwyane Wade, whose daughter, Zaya, came out as transgender in 2020. &#8220;To me, it&#8217;s a joke. This is our life. We live this,&#8221; Wade said of recent bans &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/dwyane-wade-fears-for-daughter-zaya-who-came-out-as-transgender\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Dwyane Wade fears for daughter, Zaya, who came out as transgender<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/presto\/2020\/05\/30\/USAT\/0d8fe6b2-56bc-47da-8bf1-1ba63f040f9c-GTY_1211088188.JPG?width=660&height=439&fit=crop&format=pjpg&auto=webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42376"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42376\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}