NBA Legend Dwayne Wade files petition to legally change Zaya Wade's Gender and Name
Is this good parenting or something else?
Dwayne Wade announces that he’s filing for a petition to legally change Zaya Wade’s name and gender.
For most parents with conservative values, this irritates their souls. Because Dwayne Wade’s son is 15 years old making a permanent decision to make changes to his body and he doesn’t know how it’s going to mentally affect him once he makes those changes.
The boy is 15 years old. He’s 15. I personally feel like he’s not old enough to make such an adult decision.
When I was in high school, I dated a girl at the time who was confused about her sexual orientation. At that time, she believed that she was bi-sexual but wasn’t 100% sure of it. Before she got with me, she experimented with, if I remember correctly, two women who classified themselves as lesbians. After that, she believed she was attracted to women as well as men. Fast forward some years later, we run into each other at the mall—we were broken up around this time—and we talk and catch up. During the conversation, I mention her being bisexual and wondered if she still felt that way. She said no; she was going through a phase at that time in her life and later on realized that she was only into men.
So, now you got a young boy that’s 15 years old who’s confused and doesn’t accept himself for the way he was born. He doesn’t want to accept himself but expects the world the accept the change that he’s going to make.
Now, when he decides to have surgery to remove his private parts and still be a boy—understand that you’re still a little boy no matter how much you enhance or change your body, you are still born the young boy that God made you. If he mentally couldn’t accept himself with what God made him be after the doctors get done doing their procedures, will he be able to accept that? Once the damage is done, you can’t put back what you’ve taken away.
I think that’s too much of a decision for a 15-year-old child to be making.
I feel that the father, Dwayne Wade, and Gabrielle Union, who’s not Zaya’s mother—where is this child’s biological mother at? Usually, when children go to a doctor, they have to get a permission slip from the parent to decide. In this case, it seems like the parents are pushing for this child to make adult decisions.
I am bothered by that. Because some decision that you make you can’t come back from.
Let Zaya grow up, go through life experiences, and mature first.
And understand, this article is not to bash or shame Zaya Wade. It’s to make him understand that once you make certain decisions in life, you cannot turn back.