El-Sayed’s ‘ding-a-ling’ defense of child sex changes becomes instant attack magnet: ‘Not the same, Abdul!’

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Michigan Democratic Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed is catching flak from across the political spectrum for comparing circumcision to child sex changes during a Monday night appearance on Jesse Watters Primetime. "So you think it’s okay for a parent to slash his kid’s ding-a-ling off?" Watters asked El-Sayed. "Are you circumcised?" El-Sayed asked Watters. ABDUL EL-SAYED GRILLED ON PAST STATEMENTS ON SHARIA LAW AND WHITE SUPREMACY, TAXING THE RICH "Circumcision’s different than castration," Watters responded. "It’s a problem that you think you get to decide what happens between a parent, a doctor and a patient," El-Sayed went on. "I’m just saying that, yes, circumcision is surgery on a kid’s ding-a-ling." Even some on the left didn’t buy into El-Sayed’s attempt to compare sex changes with circumcision. "This talking point isn’t it," Ryan Grim , a co-founder of the left-wing outlet DropSite News , wrote in response to a clip of the exchange. SOCIALIST INSURGENTS EYE MIDWEST GAINS AS DEM CIVIL WAR THREATENS MUST-HOLD SENATE SEAT "I’m actually agreeing with Jesse Waters…" Andrew Laufer, a New York-based civil rights attorney, posted. "Abdul El-Sayed just compared circumcision to chopping a kid's entire penis off. Circumcision and castration are not the same, Abdul! Play this on repeat through November," Turning Point USA spokesperson Andrew Kolvet wrote . "He might be worse than Kamala Harris," conservative pundit Benny Johnson posted . "Holy crap, Abdul El-Sayed said circumcision is similar to sex change operations on minors," OutKick founder Clay Travis wrote . Others took opportunities to poke fun at El-Sayed for asking a news host about his penis during a nationally televised interview by making puns. "Interested to see El-Sayed's pole numbers after this," Washington Free Beacon reporter Chuck Ross quipped. Some, however, took a more serious tone. " Sex-rejecting surgeries are not comparable to circumcision, and everyone on this planet knows that, including El-Sayed,…