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This article was first published by Truthmeter.mk (North Macedonia), within the framework of Western Balkans Anti-Disinformation Project.
In September 2024, two women who first spread the lie that Brigitte Macron was “born a man” were sentenced by the Paris Criminal Court to pay damages to President Macron’s wife for the defamation they committed against her by spreading such lies
We analyze a Facebook post that says:
Brigitte Macron’s penis is a hot topic.
“It’s not my fault Macron married a penis” – Candace Owens.
Macron asked Trump to persuade Candice to stop posting about his wife’s penis.
If there was evidence that his wife with a penis was actually a biological woman, why was there a need for urgency.
The reason is that – There is not a single piece of evidence, document, or photograph of Brigitte Macron as a girl, a woman under the age of 30.
This is the argument that Candice asked from Macron in order to stop posting about his wife with a penis. Macron did not provide any evidence. Nor did he file a defamation lawsuit against Candice.
That’s it … Grandma’s dink is nervous.
As “Le Monde” writes, Candice Owens is a commentator who advocates conspiracy theories, is a figure of the American far right, and is tirelessly working to revive false information about President Emmanuel Macron‘s wife being transgender.
In France, in September 2024, two women were ordered to pay damages for defamation for spreading the falsehood that “Brigitte Macron is a man” and that she had sex reassignment surgery.
On his show in June 2024, host Piers Morgan called Candice Owens’ claims “very offensive, very wrong.” Then, in a January 2025 X post titled “I Got A Legal Threat From A Sitting President…,” Owens revealed that she had been contacted by a law firm representing the Macrons themselves to warn her about the defamation.
Speaking at an event in Paris in March 2024, the French president said of this disinformation:
The worst thing is false information and made-up scenarios. People end up believing them and harass you, even in your intimacy.
Also in March, Ms. Macron’s daughter, Tiphaine Auzière, told broadcaster BFMTV that the rumours were “grotesque” and “a form of harassment”.
Adding to the disinformation being spread about Brigitte Macron is a viral post shared on X, which claims that France allegedly offered conservative commentator Candice Owens a one-time payment of $4 million and $50,000 per month for the rest of her life to stop reporting on France’s first lady, Brigitte Macron.
In November last year, Owens was denied a visa to enter New Zealand, according to the Associated Press. Owens had previously been denied a visa application in Australia, citing remarks in which she allegedly denied that Jews were subjected to medical experiments in Nazi concentration camps.
Owens started a series called “Becoming Brigitte” on her YouTube channel where she claims that Brigitte Macron is allegedly transgender. In an online episode of her podcast “Candace,” Owens claims that she received a legal threat from President Macron in response to her claims about his wife.
The wife of the French president has filed a lawsuit against a conspiracy theory circulating online (and in the post we are reviewing) that she is “transgender and was born male.” The First Lady of France has found herself the target of numerous claims regarding this falsehood by conspiracy theorists on social networks.
These falsehoods went so far as to claim that she was “born as a male under the name Jean-Michel Trogneux.” The name was mentioned tens of thousands of times on social networks.
„Reuters“ noted that in this campaign against Brigitte Macron, various fabricated photos were shared to present “what she supposedly looked like in childhood when she was born a boy.” However, these claims are false, and the photos are not authentic but generated using digital tools.
In September 2024, two women who first spread the lie that Brigitte Macron was “born a man” were sentenced by the Paris Criminal Court to pay damages to President Macron’s wife for the defamation they committed against her by spreading such lies.
The two women played a major role in propagating the theory in 2021, conducting a long “interview” lasting over four hours in which the first, Amandine Roy, a self-proclaimed spiritual medium, interviewed the second, Natacha Rey, presented as a “self-taught independent journalist,” on her YouTube channel, about the discovery of the “deception,” “scam” and “state lie” they claimed to have uncovered. In the four-hour interview broadcast on YouTube, the two women showed photos of Brigitte Macron and her family, talked about surgeries she had undergone, claimed she was not the mother of her three children, and gave personal information about her brother, writes French “Le Monde.”
According to Macron’s lawyer, Jean Ennochi, this ruling is not about a victory–but about the normal application of the law.
At the trial, lawyer Ennochi insisted that this conspiracy theory had caused enormous damage caused by fake news, which had spread around the world.
The tactic of baselessly labelling someone as transgender is not specific to Brigitte Macron. Many high-profile women have faced similar conspiracy theories towards them. The phenomenon is known as “transvestigation,” writes Euronews.
The debunked conspiracy theory that Brigitte Macron, the wife of French President Emmanuel Macron, was born a biological man and transitioned to a woman, has been circulating many times in recent years, but that doesn’t make it credible.
Due to all the above facts, we assess the post we are reviewing as untrue.
