Michigan Democrat Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed argued that parents should stop trying to “protect” their daughters from males on their sports teams and in their intimate spaces because they’ll be corrupted by the internet anyway.
El-Sayed made his shocking argument during a “60 Minutes” interview that aired Sunday, just two days before voters head to the polls. “60 Minutes” correspondent Ross Douthat asked the Democrat candidate, “What happens with transgender kids on sports teams? Like, these are places where rights are in conflict, right?”
“I don’t know that that’s actually true,” El-Sayed responded, downplaying the issue. “I think we manufacture these social issues.”
“Here’s the thing about this,” he continued, pointing out that Douthat had a smartphone. “You can get access to anything and everything in the whole world — all the world’s information in your pocket. The notion, somehow, that you’re going to prevent your child from something that you may find disagreeable, and that that is going to be because of school is so outdated — because, of course, you have all the information, and they have all the information.”
“So here’s the thing about it: I think it’s really important ...