{"id":2649276,"date":"2026-08-25T11:14:06","date_gmt":"2026-08-25T15:14:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-dem-senate-candidate-el-sayed-says-sex-changes-for-minors-just-like-circumcision-during-trainwreck-interview\/"},"modified":"2026-08-25T11:38:45","modified_gmt":"2026-08-25T15:38:45","slug":"watch-dem-senate-candidate-el-sayed-says-sex-changes-for-minors-just-like-circumcision-during-trainwreck-interview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-dem-senate-candidate-el-sayed-says-sex-changes-for-minors-just-like-circumcision-during-trainwreck-interview\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch: Dem Senate Candidate El-Sayed Says Sex Changes for Minors Just Like Circumcision During Trainwreck Interview"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwatch-dem-senate-candidate-el-sayed-says-sex-changes-for-minors-just-like-circumcision-during-trainwreck-interview%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2649276&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The article discusses the recent political and media controversies involving Abdul El-Sayed, a Michigan Democratic Senate nominee.It highlights El-Sayed&#8217;s struggles during interviews, especially his clashes with Fox News host Jesse Watters, where he compared gender-affirming surgeries for minors to circumcision, leading to controversial exchanges. The piece also covers the fallout from El-Sayed&#8217;s association with radical streamer Hasan Piker,who made anti-Semitic remarks,prompting El-Sayed to distance himself publicly. Additionally, El-Sayed&#8217;s comments on banning Shariah law were criticized for oversimplifying issues surrounding religious legal systems. the article portrays El-Sayed as facing significant challenges in gaining political credibility, especially amidst the contentious political climate in Michigan, a key state for the Democrats&#8217; Senate hopes.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><br \/>\n<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\"><br \/>\n<?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><html><body><\/p>\n<section> \t\t\t\t<script>console.log(\"ad slot (AC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC2)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC3)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC4)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (REP_0)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (REP_1)\")<\/script><\/p>\n<p>My worst work weeks are usually better than the work week that Michigan Democratic Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed has had. And I\u2019m judging this on Monday night.<\/p>\n<p>At midday, El-Sayed\u2019s campaign was finally forced to officially distance itself from its most famous surrogate, radical socialist Twitch streamer Hasan <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/aoc-omar-team-vlogger-said-america-deserved-9-11-campaign-event\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u201cAmerica Deserved 9\/11\u201d<\/a> Piker. The straw that broke the very overloaded camel\u2019s back was a veiled threat against Jewish Democratic Michigan state Sen. Jeremy Moss, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/michiganadvance.com\/2026\/08\/24\/el-sayed-says-hasan-piker-does-not-speak-for-his-campaign-amid-comments-on-sen-jeremy-moss\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Michigan Advance<\/a>. In a clip during a stream last week, Piker said that \u201cif Jews in America keep putting this idea out there that they are singularly invested in Israel, eventually someone is going to come around and take action\u201d with Moss\u2019 photo on the screen.<\/p>\n<p>How to cap that off? An evening appearance on Jesse Watters\u2019 Fox News show, in which, when asked about transgender surgeries for minors, El-Sayed compared the procedure to circumcision.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou\u2019re a doctor, right?\u201d Watters asked El-Sayed at the start of the parley over gender transition surgery for minors.<\/p>\n<p>El-Sayed responded in the affirmative, even <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/even-doctor-dem-physician-running-senate-hot-water-even-lib-reporters-question-mysterious-past\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">though this isn\u2019t technically true<\/a>. (He has a medical degree and has served as a public health official, but holds no medical license and has not completed a residency \u2014 something that\u2019s required in order to refer to yourself as a medical doctor. We\u2019ll spot him this one, though, since it was about to become as irrelevant as quibbling with the marksmanship skills of the guy who shot Archduke Franz Ferdinand in a wider discussion of the horrors of World War I.)<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo you think it\u2019s OK for a parent to slash his kid\u2019s ding-a-ling off? You think that\u2019s OK?\u201d Watters said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo, I \u2014 do you really want to have this conversation?\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/docs-dem-darling-abdul-el-sayeds-mother-worked-islamic-charity-helped-fund-bin-laden-taliban-hamas\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">El-Sayed<\/a> responded. \u201cAre you circumcised?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUh, yeah, but that\u2019s a personal question, <em>doctor,<\/em>\u201d Watters, visibly stunned and amused, shot back.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo you probably should want to move on. You probably should want to move on,\u201d El-Sayed said, probably wanting to move on himself.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd circumcision is different than castration!\u201d Watters said, exiting his state of shock.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think \u2014 I think it\u2019s a problem that you think that you get to decide what happens between a parent, a doctor, and a patient,\u201d El-Sayed said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd I\u2019m saying that circumcision is surgery on a kid\u2019s ding-a-ling, so if you really want to bring that up, you can,\u201d he added. \u201cI just think you\u2019re really selective about how you want to talk about these things.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">.<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/JesseBWatters?\">@JesseBWatters<\/a>: \u201cSo you think it\u2019s okay for a parent to slice their kid\u2019s dingaling off?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Abdul El-Sayed: \u201cAre you circumcised?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Jesse Watters: \u201cCircumcision is different than castration.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/EOgKyaIf92\">pic.twitter.com\/EOgKyaIf92<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Conservative War Machine (@WarMachineRR) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/WarMachineRR\/status\/2092048955034976394?\">August 25, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Watters called this \u201cwacky,\u201d which I guess is certainly one word for it.<\/p>\n<p>I would say that it\u2019s like the difference between like a doctor asking parents if they want to have their child\u2019s tonsils out, and a doctor asking whether they want every one of their child\u2019s teeth pulled out. Not because they need those teeth out, but because their child identifies as toothless. Both are surgery on the oral canal, and both are decisions between a doctor, parents, and a minor (and therefore unable to consent) patient.<\/p>\n<p>See? Totally the same. If you\u2019re an abhorrent individual incapable of functioning in a civilized society, that is.<\/p>\n<p>If this conversation got slightly better, it was only by comparison.<\/p>\n<p>In another segment, El-Sayed called bans against Shariah law discriminatory because it would be like banning church canon law. This, of course, obscures the fact that canon law is unenforcible and Christians are generally not coerced by immigrant faith communities into canon law \u201carbitration\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2025\/dec\/1\/shariah-courts-america\/?srsltid=AfmBOooRTaXnFroUCiqgFG2vFU7zZtv481WQ3TbblNu4GhI8Rxfe0yPQ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">like how Shariah<\/a> is reportedly often practiced in the West, which is what necessitates these bans.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Abdul El-Sayed says that banning Sharia Law would be the same thing as banning Canon Law. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/fhMEBMoFog\">pic.twitter.com\/fhMEBMoFog<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Greg Price (@greg_price11) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/greg_price11\/status\/2092054061512098005?\">August 25, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The rest of the interview, as <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/campaign\/6048221-el-sayed-watters-fox-news-clash\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Hill<\/a> noted, consisted of El-Sayed repeatedly trying to draw the conversation back to inflation and affordability \u2014 usually good territory for the Democrats, except his inability to read the room on the other questions overshadowed that and it turns out El-Sayed was politically and fiscally illiterate in that arena, as well.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">WATTERS: You say you want socialized health care. Abdul, how much is that going to cost?<\/p>\n<p>EL-SAYED: It\u2019s going to cost the average Michigander a whole lot less than they pay right now.<\/p>\n<p>WATTERS: I have a feeling, Abdul, you don\u2019t even know how much money the government spends\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/eTGA7Zv0NJ\">pic.twitter.com\/eTGA7Zv0NJ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Townhall.com (@townhallcom) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/townhallcom\/status\/2092059272586609127?\">August 25, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>But other than that, it went great.<\/p>\n<p>The path to recapturing the Senate for the Democrats runs through Michigan, and El-Sayed has stumbled even without adversarial interviews like this. Most of this stumbling has involved Piker\u2019s shenanigans, to be fair, but the Watters interview was proof positive that, in a state that Donald Trump won in 2024, the Democratic nominee still has a long way to go to prove that he\u2019s for you and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/trans-house-democrat-says-trumps-2024-ad-worked-dems-refused-counter-message\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">not for they\/them<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Can\u2019t wait to see what Tuesday brings.<\/p>\n<div style=\"background-color: #f7f7f7; color: #171717; display: flex;font-size: 16px;font-weight: 600;line-height: 1.5;margin: 24px 0;padding: 18px 20px 18px 30px;text-align: left;\">\n<div style=\"align-self: stretch;border-left: 3px solid #171717;flex-shrink: 0;padding-left: 20px;\"><\/div>\n<p><a style=\"text-decoration: none;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/\">Choose The Western Journal as your preferred source on Google and never miss reporting that defends truth, protects freedom, and advances Western civilization<\/a><\/div>\n<p style=\"border: 1px solid #f5f5f5; padding: 16px;\">Advertise with The Western Journal and reach millions of highly engaged readers, while supporting our work. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/advertise-us\/?wj_source=article\">Advertise Today<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position: relative;\">\n<div class=\"ff-fancy-header-container\"> \t\t\t \t<\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-submit-correction inner-content\">\n<div class=\"correction-form\">\n<form style=\"display: none;\">\n<div class=\"sc-name-field\"> \t\t\t\t\t\t<label>* Name<\/label> \t\t\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"text\" name=\"name\" required> \t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<div class=\"sc--field\"> \t\t\t\t\t\t<label>* <\/label> \t\t\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"text\" name=\"\" required> \t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p> \t\t\t\t\t<label>* Message<\/label> \t\t\t\t\t<br \/> \t\t\t\t\t<textarea name=\"message\" required><\/textarea> \t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<div class=\"required-message\" style=\"display: none; padding-bottom: 15px;\">* All fields are required.<\/div>\n<p> \t\t\t\t\t<input type=\"submit\" value=\"Submit\" onclick=\"event.preventDefault(); firefly_sc();\"> \t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<div class=\"firefly-sc-confirm\" style=\"display: none;\">Success!<\/div>\n<\/p><\/form>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p> \t\t<script> \t\t\tfunction firefly_sc() { \t\t\t\tif( typeof window.captchaPublicKey == typeof undefined ){ \t\t\t\t\tconsole.error('window.captchaPublicKey is not defined'); \t\t\t\t} \t\t\t\tgrecaptcha.execute( window.captchaPublicKey, { action: 'submit_correction' } ).then( function( token ) { \t\t\t\t\tvar opts = { \t\t\t\t\t\taction:    'firefly_sc_submit', \t\t\t\t\t\tname:      document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"name\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\t:     document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\tmessage:   document.querySelector( '.entry-submit-correction [name=\"message\"]' ).value, \t\t\t\t\t\tpost_id:   firefly_post_id, \t\t\t\t\t\tcap_token: token \t\t\t\t\t}  \t\t\t\t\tvar inputs = [ 'name', '', 'message' ];  \t\t\t\t\tfor( var i = 0; i < inputs.length; i++ ) if( ! 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By midday, his campaign had to disavow its well-known surrogate, Twitch streamer Hasan Piker, after he made threatening comments about Jewish Michigan State Senator Jeremy Moss during a stream last week. Later that evening, El-Sayed appeared on Fox News\u2019 Jesse Watters show, where he controversially compared transgender surgeries for minors to circumcision-despite lacking a medical license-and faced tough questions about parental rights and surgery ethics. The interview also included El-Sayed claiming banning Shariah law is similar to banning canon law-a comparison critics say oversimplifies complex legal and cultural differences. Throughout the segment, he tried shifting focus to inflation and healthcare costs but struggled with the audience\u2019s reactions. Overall, this highlights how far El-Sayed still has to go in connecting with Michigan voters ahead of key elections<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2649277,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Michael-Featured-Image-1313.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651],"tags":[84622,84624,84623,42157,84625],"class_list":["post-2649276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","tag-democratic-senate-race","tag-el-sayed-interview","tag-health-policy-controversy","tag-political-gaffe","tag-transgender-rights-debate"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Michael-Featured-Image-1313.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2649276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2649276"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2649276\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2649279,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2649276\/revisions\/2649279"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2649277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2649276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2649276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2649276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}