Dwyane Wade’s No. 3 Miami Heat jersey hangs to the rafters at the Kaseya Center, where he spent most of his 16-year NBA career. But the 2023 Hall of Fame inductee He said he no longer lives in Florida because his family “would not be accepted” there.
On Thursday’s episode of “headlines” With Rachel Nichols, Wade revealed that his decision to leave Florida stemmed from State lawmakers are proposing anti-LGBT policies.
“That’s another reason I don’t live in that state,” Wade, 41, said in an exclusive preview shared by Facebook. the people.
Wade, the father of the 15-year-old he willAnd who came out as transgender in 2020“My family will not be accepted or feel comfortable there,” he said. Wade is also the father of Zaire, 21, Xavier, 9, and Kafia, his four-year-old daughter with wife Gabrielle Union.
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The three-time NBA champion has stood up for the LGBTQ+ community since making his daughter’s announcement public “The Ellen DeGeneres Show” in February 2020.
“This is her life every day. This is not a game for us,” Wade He said on “Good Morning America” at the time. “We’re all in the process of protecting her heart, we’re all in the process of protecting her joy, and in order to do that, we have to support her.”
That same feeling led them to leave the Sunshine State, even though there are no income taxes in Florida: “I have to make decisions for the sake of my family, not just personal and individual decisions.”
This article originally appeared in the USA TODAY: Dwyane Wade Says He Left Florida Because His Family “Won’t Be Accepted”