Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed said the government should not restrict sex changes, arguing that "whole a--" doctors like himself should be allowed to make their own determinations for patients' treatment plans. The remarks came during El-Sayed's Friday rally held at Michigan State University, during which the former Detroit Health Department head responded to a student's question about protecting sex changes. Since launching his campaign, El-Sayed has flaunted that he is a "physician" and, if elected, he would be the first doctor to serve as a Democratic senator in 50 years.
However, Fox News Digital previously reported El-Sayed has never held a medical license in Michigan or New York. "I went to a whole a-- medical school, everybody I graduated with also went to whole a-- medical school," El-Sayed said. "And then ... they went to whole a-- residency.
And some of them went to whole a-- fellowship. They took whole a-- exams to provide whole a-- healthcare." DEM SENATE HOPEFUL’S ‘PHYSICIAN’ CAMPAIGN PITCH UNDER FIRE AFTER LICENSE RECORDS REVEAL KEY GAPS "They are the experts that a patient wants to see when they seek care," El-Sayed continued. "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." The remarks come as the Trump administration has made major strides in restricting minors' access to "sex-rejecting" procedures, which include hormone therapy and surgeries. Earlier this week, the Justice Department announced that Mount Sinai had joined other hospitals, like Texas Children's Hospital, the Cleveland Clinic Foundation and Connecticut Children's Hospital, to halt sex change procedures for children after reaching an agreement with the Trump administration. MEDICAID ENDS FUNDING FOR CHILD SEX-CHANGE PROCEDURES AS TRUMP ADMIN SLAMS 'EXPERIMENTAL' TREATMENTS El-Sayed has made the promise of Medicare for All — government-run healthcare — as the major selling point of his campaign; he said that even though the government will be covering the bill, it needs to stay out of the doctor's decisions about a patient's treatment plan.
"I don't think the government gets to have a say about what health care is provided in what circumstances and why," El-Sayed said. "And to me, that is the standard on which we decide how we make health care decisions." THE MEDICARE FOR ALL TRADE-OFFS SOCIALISTS AREN'T TALKING ABOUT, ACCORDING TO EXPERTS "Not what the government says you can or can't do, but what a patient and/or their parent, if they're under 18, and their provider to decide. That's the most important thing," El-Sayed continued.
"And there's a lot of disinformation about us, what we're talking about, when we talk about reproductive rights and when we're talking about health care for the trans folks. But, in the end, the place where the rubber meets the rope is in that clinical room between a patient and a provider, and that to me is the center we should engage on." El-Sayed argued that Republicans agree with his belief that treatment decisions should be between a patient and their doctor, pointing to the Right to Try Act, which allows terminally ill patients to try experimental drug treatments that aren't yet approved by the Food and Drug Administration after they have exhausted all other treatment options. "Because conservatives fought for a very long time for this legislation called 'Right to Try' legislation, which is the idea that the government couldn't tell you [that] you couldn't have a certain medication," El-Sayed said.
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