Gender-confused children should be able to have permanently damaging procedures, according to Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed.
The Michigan Democrat made the comment last week during a campaign event at Michigan State University. El-Sayed cited his background as a doctor in arguing against legal restrictions on the procedures.
“I went to a whole a– medical school, everybody I graduated with also went to whole a– medical school,” El-Sayed said, according to Fox News. “And then… they went to whole a– residency. Right? And some of them went to whole a– fellowship. They took whole a– exams to provide whole a– healthcare.”
“They are the experts that a patient wants to see when they seek care,” El-Sayed said further. “And the decision about what healthcare is necessary ought to be held between a patient — and or their parents if they’re under the age of 18 — and their doctor. That’s it.”
While he has a medical degree, El-Sayed has minimal experience working with patients as a physician, according to Politico.
“El-Sayed’s hands-on experience treating patients appears to be a short clinical rotation called a sub-internship at a small hospital in Manhattan for four weeks at the end of medical school,” Politico reported, based on El-Sayed’s own comments in 2022.
The candidate is locked in a tight race with Republican Mike Rogers. The winner will replace retiring Senator Gary Peters, a Democrat.
El-Sayed is not licensed as a physician but has made his medical credentials a key part of his campaign.
But even if he were a licensed medical doctor in Michigan, that would not change the harmful nature of the procedures he endorses.
For example, detransitioner Chloe Cole, who had both breasts removed at age 15, shares her regrets at her inability to nurse any children in the future.
Other adults who once thought they were transgender have shared their pains with the physical and emotional scars left from the procedures.
Earlier this year, Fox Varian won a $2 million lawsuit against the medical professionals who pushed her to get a double mastectomy at age 16 – a decision she came to regret. “I immediately had a thought that this was wrong, and it couldn’t be true,” she said.
Varian had underlying mental health issues tied to a bitter custody battle between her parents, as Alliance Defending Freedom previously reported.
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