French President Emmanuel Macron and his wife, Brigitte, will present photographic and scientific evidence to a US court to prove the French first lady is, in fact, a woman according to their lawyer.
The two are submitting the documentation as part of a defamation lawsuit against conservative influencer Candace Owens, who claimed that Brigitte Macron was born a male and later secretly transitioned.
The Macrons’ attorney, Tom Clare, told the BBC’s “Fame Under Fire” podcast that there will be “expert testimony that will come out that will be scientific in nature.” The attorney did not elaborate on exactly what, beyond that it would include pictures of Brigitte, now 72, when she was pregnant with their kids.
The French first family is ready to demonstrate “both generically and specifically” that the allegations are false: “It is incredibly upsetting to think that you have to go and subject yourself, to put this type of proof forward,” Clare said of the distress it has caused the first lady.
“It is a process that she will have to subject herself to in a very public way. But she’s willing to do it. She is firmly resolved to do what it takes to set the record straight,” he said.
A YouTube right wing content creator had repeatedly claimed, without evidence, that Brigitte Macron, 72, was born male — going as far as to say on her podcast earlier this year she “would stake my entire professional career on all of those points.”
The Macrons filed a lawsuit against the YouTuber in Delaware in July, alleging she “disregarded all credible evidence disproving her claim in favour of platforming known conspiracy theorists and proven defamers.”
Previously made claims in France by two women whom Brigitte Macron sued in 2021. That case was initially ruled in the French first lady’s favour but has since been overturned on appeal. The first lady has now taken the case to France’s highest appeals court.
Brigitte Macron was 39 years old when she became the future French leader’s teacher at age 15 in 1993. The pair married in 2007.