NBA star Dwyane Wade gives fathers with trans children advice: 'Our kids are going to be who they are'

• Dwyane Wade and Gabrielle Union are the parents of a transgender daughter.
• Wade said that kids are going to be themselves and that parents should help mold them.

Former basketball player Dwyane Wade appeared on the 2022 Met Gala carpet with his wife actress Gabrielle Union and gave advice to the parents of transgender children.

A reporter asked the couple what keeps them fighting to protect their teenage transgender daughter named Zaya.

"Just being a father and just seeing our child grow up every day and doing what you're supposed to be doing as a parent," said Wade. "It's to make sure that you sit back and see what it is in life that they want to do, and 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 as parents," Wade added. "We love our kids. We get to see them every day. That's what people on the outside don't get to see, but we know them and we see them all the time."

"And we believe them when they tell us who they are," Union, who is Zaya's stepmother, pitched in.

Wade then spoke specifically to fathers whose transgender children may have recently come out to them:

"The moment when you were in the hospital and you grabbed your daughter and you looked at your daughter, all the emotions that went through your mind and how much love filled your heart at that moment. Don't let that ever leave you — no matter what," he said.

"The one thing we do as parents is: We find our mini-mes and we try to make them just like us, but our kids are going to be who they are, and it's our job to help mold them and try to push them in the places that they want to go," he continued.

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Representatives for Wade and Union did not immediately respond to Insider's request for comment.