Emmanuel Macron denounced on Friday “false information and fabricated scenarios”, referring to rumors on social networks claiming that his wife is a transgender woman. “The worst thing is false information and created scenarios, with people who end up believing it and who upset you, including in your privacy,” commented the President of the Republic, questioned by journalists on the subject at the end of the ceremony sealing abortion in the Constitution.
Theories that have abounded since 2017
Since 2017 and the election of Emmanuel Macron, conspiracy theories have regularly spread on social networks claiming that Brigitte Macron, née Trogneux, is in reality a transgender woman whose first name was Jean-Michel. A vast conspiracy would be at work to hide this change in marital status, according to this rumor which also resulted in more serious accusations of child abuse brought against the First Lady.
“Against this machismo, we must use the law, justice” elaborated Emmanuel Macron, calling for a strengthening of “digital public order” on social networks, “a formidable place of expression of the craziest” which he still considers himself “without rules.” Two women will also be tried on March 6, 2025 for criminal defamation in Paris for having spread transphobic rumors about the wife of the Head of State, we learned on Friday from a source close to the case.
Former New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern and former American First Lady Michelle Obama were also targeted by rumors claiming that they were born male in 2017 and 2018. The President of the Republic, who came Friday March 8 to seal abortion in the Constitution alongside the Minister of Justice Eric Dupond-Moretti, estimated that “there was an enormous amount of educational work to be done”, arguing that “the feminist fight is not It’s not a women’s fight, it’s a men’s and women’s fight.”