While attending the 2023 Met Gala, Dwyane Wayne spoke on being an advocate for the trans community.
During a quick interview with Variety, the former NBA star was asked what his message was to Florida’s governor, Ron DeSantis. “I don’t know him, but I do know men lie, women lie but numbers don’t. I do know that when our children feel accepted that 43% of our children that feel accepted from their parents and from the world it lowers the death rate. Suicide is high in the trans community, it’s high in youth. So I’m going to step on the side of acceptance and I’m not going to go on the other side. I’m just going to focus on acceptance.”
He continued, “let’s make sure our kids have an opportunity to live this life that we all get to live and it starts with our gun safety laws obviously we got a lot of work to do there and our schools but also too, our community, which is the trans community.”He ended.
As we previously reported, Dwyane recently did an interview with Rachel Nichols for a new episode of Headliners and revealed he moved his family out of Florida due to the LGBTQ policies in the state.
“That’s another reason why I don’t live in that state,” the NBA legend shared. “A lot of people don’t know that. I have to make decisions for my family, not just personal, individual decisions,” he continues. “I mean, obviously, the tax [situation] is great. Having Wade County is great. But my family would not be accepted or feel comfortable there. And so that’s one of the reasons why I don’t live there.”
A lot of people praise Dwyane Wade for being an awesome father and later in the interview he credited his dad for the way he raises his kids.”I tell my dad all the time, I’m just a mirror image of the way he loved us and the way that he accepted not only myself and my brothers but other kids in the community that didn’t have father figures,” Wade said. “And so I don’t know any difference. And so yes, I had to educate myself and yes, I had to get a better understanding. And yes, I had to lose some friends along the process, but I never wavered on loving my kids and trying to find space to get the chance to understand them.”