Jesse Watters Wanted to Debate Trans Kids’ Bodies — Until Dr. Abdul El-Sayed Asked About His

This story originally appeared on The Advocate.Fox News host Jesse Watters wanted Abdul El-Sayed to account for what happens to transgender children’s bodies. He was less enthusiastic when the Michigan Democratic U.S. Senate nominee asked about his.During El-Sayed’s appearance Monday on Jesse Watters Primetime, Watters abandoned a discussion about Michigan and demanded, “Sex changes for minors. Do you support that?”El-Sayed, a doctor and former public health official, said politicians should not dictate healthcare decisions that belong to patients, parents and medical providers. “I remember having great conversations with my conservative friends about right-to-try legislation — the idea that the government shouldn’t tell you what kind of healthcare you should have,” El-Sayed said.Watters responded by asking whether El-Sayed thought it was acceptable for a parent to “slash his kid’s ding-a-ling off,” invoking a procedure that is not performed on children.Related: Rosie O’Donnell tells Jesse Watters to ‘stay out of my orbit’ before roasting Trump on Kimmel‘Are you circumcised?’“Do you really want to have this conversation?” El-Sayed asked. “Are you circumcised?”Watters answered yes, then objected. “That’s a personal question, doctor,” he said.“So you probably should want to move on,” El-Sayed replied.Watters insisted circumcision was “different than castration.” El-Sayed said Watters’ objection illustrated the contradiction. “I think it’s a problem that you think that you get to decide what happens between a parent, a doctor and a patient,” El-Sayed said. “And I’m just saying that, yes, circumcision is surgery on a kid’s ding-a-ling.”El-Sayed’s analogy pointed to an elective surgery performed routinely on infants who cannot consent. Johns Hopkins researchers examined more than 1.5 million U.S. hospitalizations involving boys up to 28 days old and found that the share involving circumcision decline