Abdul El‑Sayed, who is seeking Michigan’s open U.S. Senate seat, faced pointed questions about gender-related medical care for minors during an appearance on Fox News’ Jesse Watters Primetime. According to the source article, the exchange aired Monday and featured a back-and-forth over who should make medical decisions for minors and whether taxpayers would fund such care.
The Fox News exchange
As described by the source, Watters asked El‑Sayed, “Sex changes for minors. Do you support that?” El‑Sayed answered, “I just think the government shouldn’t tell you what kind of health care you should have, and if you’re a minor, it’s between you, your doctor, and your parents.”
Watters then pressed, “You want to ‘try’ on kids?” Later in the segment, he asked whether El‑Sayed thought “it’s OK for a parent to slash his kid’s ding-a-ling off.” El‑Sayed responded, “Do you really want to have this conversation? Are you circumcised?”
Watters replied that “circumcision is different than castration.” El‑Sayed said, “Yes, circumcision is a surgery on a kid’s ding-a-ling … I just think you guys are really selective.”
Taxpayer funding and Medicare for All
The source article states that El‑Sayed has vowed to “fight to expand Medicare to cover all necessary health care” and “extend it to every single American,” and that he has acknowledged such a plan would require higher taxes and would cover “reproductive rights” and “gender-affirming care.”
Political reaction
According to the source, Michigan GOP senior communications adviser Greg Manz retweeted a clip of the Fox News exchange along with a prior statement provided to Blaze News: “Michigan taxpayers footing the bill for abortions and irreversible gender reassignment surgeries, even for children — it doesn’t get more extreme than that.”
The source also reports that the “war room” account for Republican candidate Mike Rogers labeled El‑Sayed a “conman” and “too extreme for Michigan.”
