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Late last year, Wade, 38, shared in an interview with former NBA players Matt Barnes and Stephen Jackson that nine years ago, he began having conversations with Union, 47, about Zaya's gender identity. The reality of having a child who's part of the LGBTQ+ community forced him to examine his own biases and reconcile how he deals with them, he said.

\"I’ve watched my son, from day one, become into who she now eventually has come into,\" he recalled. \"Nothing changes with my love. Nothing changes with my responsibilities. Only thing I gotta do now is get smarter and educate myself more. And that's my job.\"

In a recent appearance on \"The Ellen DeGeneres Show,\" Wade added that his family members have become \"proud allies,\" with Union even reaching out to the cast of \"Pose\" to \"figure out as much information as we can to make sure that we give our child the best opportunities to be her best self.\"

\"We take our roles and our responsibility as parents very seriously,\" he explained. \"When a child comes home with a question, when a child comes home with an issue, when a child comes home with anything, it's our job as parents to listen to that, to give them the best information that we can, the best feedback that we can -- and that doesn't change because sexuality's now involved in it.\"

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