It is the Wade’s personal decision how they wanted to handle Zaya’s decision.
Some were critical to go so public with it especially considering it is a 12-year-old child. Wade went on Good Morning America to speak on why he decided to do it.
Here is what he had to say via TMZ Sports.
“I struggled on how much I wanted to talk about in the doc,” Dwyane said … “I actually didn’t talk about it a lot. But, I knew if I put it in the doc at all, it would be a big conversation. ”
“Yes, we understand that our daughter’s 12 years old. We struggled with what people would say about a 12-year-old making a decision about her life, but we also know our child.”
“So we sit back and we say. ‘You know what?’ As parents, it’s our job to sit back and figure out and find the information that we can. And we’ve sat down together as a family. We’ve reached out to as many people as we can. We’ve researched as many things as we can to try to help not only our family but other people in this journey and along the way.”
In the end, the mental health and safety of the child is the most important thing.
It is important to remember there is no right or wrong ways to handle these things as long as the kid is receiving the love and support from their family.
Flip the page for Wade speaking to Good Morning America about it and Zaya speaking on why she wanted to be seen as a female going forward.