Tia Carrere is one proud mom. Carrere, 58, tells PEOPLE that her 19-year-old son Jude, whom she shares with her ex-husband, Simon Wakelin, has come out as transgender.

Jude was born on Sept. 25, 2005, and raised in Topanga, a neighborhood outside Los Angeles in the Santa Monica Mountains. Tia credits her son’s individualism to growing up in an eclectic community.

Tia Carrere is beaming with pride after her 19-year-old son, Jude, came out as transgender — and she’s not holding back on support. In an interview with People magazine, the “Wayne’s World ...

Tia Carrere is one proud mom. Carrere, 58, tells PEOPLE that her 19-year-old son Jude, whom she shares with her ex-husband, Simon Wakelin, has come out as transgender.

Tia Carrere has so much pride for her son, Jude Wakelin. “I'm really thankful that I think, somehow, I had a hand in making a child that doesn't feel like [he] has to fit in with everybody else ...