By Monica Miller | May 17, 2022
In a joint interview with her stepmother, Gabrielle Union, for the Dove Self-Esteem Project, Zaya Wade opened up about the struggles of coming out. She revealed she was transgender in 2020, and was met with a lot of backlash for how supportive her parents were.
“As a trans person, once I came out, there was a lot of hateful comments about how I should grow my hair out long or fit into a certain version of femininity, even though that’s not true at all,” she explains. “That kind of advice is just trying to break you, but don’t let it.”
