Dwyane Wade and Gabrielle Union talk about leaving Florida

while being interviewed for her Parents cover story, The couple opened up about why they decided to move.

“There are many reasons we decided California was best for our family, and finding community for Zaya was an important part of that,” said Wade, 41. Zaya is Wade’s 16-year-old daughter who is transgender is.

“We felt like California was a place for her to thrive and grow,” the former NBA player continued. “She is now in high school and was able to be accepted here and become her.”

Union also noted, “If you have the kind of rhetoric that’s being advocated in Florida and enacted into law, if my kid isn’t safe there, that’s not an option.”

“We have family and friends who don’t have the privilege of moving. Therefore, we will fight to our breath to protect all oppressed children,” he continued Bring it on Star, 50. “That’s our responsibility as people with big platforms and as people who people trust, and they trust us because we say the difficult.”

The couple also spoke about how they plan to teach their four-year-old daughter, Kaavia James, to have “compassion for themselves.”

“Often we’re taught to be compassionate toward everyone else, but we let ourselves fall off that compassion umbrella and allow ourselves to drench and drown in self-loathing and self-judgment. And when you breed compassion in your home, [kids] I can’t help but live it and expect it.

“This is the first time I’ve raised a little girl her age,” Wade remarked. “Zaya came to us when he was 8 years old and we started raising Zion to be Zaya. That was different.”

“I don’t know what Kaav will choose for herself or her sexuality or her gender. But if she chooses a man, I want her to look at the man she chooses and say, “You have to measure up to my father,” Waten concluded. “So the bar is set high.”