Abdul El-Sayed dismisses issue of males in girls' sports, calls it 'manufactured,' says kids will see everything on their phones anyway

“What happens with transgender kids on sports teams and so on, right?” Douthat asked. “Like there are places where rights are in conflict, right? Do you, what do you think happens there?”

El-Sayed dismissed the concern. “I don’t know that that’s actually true,” he said. “I think we manufacture these social issues because here’s the thing about it, Ross: you have an iPhone in your pocket, probably, or is it iPhone or Samsung?”

“You have a phone in your pocket, right? You can get access to everything and anything in the whole world, all the world’s information in your pocket. The notion somehow that you are going to prevent your child from being exposed to something that you may find disagreeable, and that that is going to be because of school is so profoundly outdated, because of course you have all the information and they have all the information.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 for us to recognize that the free flow of information is actually a beautiful thing. It’s really important, and the most important thing you do is not try to protect a person from seeing a thing. It’s about trying to make sure that as you coach your kid through the world, that you are engaging with them and saying: ‘Here’s what I believe. Here’s what you may see in the world. You get to make your choices about who you’re going to be in the world,’ but that’s going to require us to make do with the fact that the internet is a real thing.”

That’s what he said when asked if boys should be in girls’ locker rooms, if boys should expose their genitals to girls in washrooms. He said, basically, that it doesn’t matter because kids can see it on the internet.