Brigitte Macron will file a complaint after the spread of false information that she is a trans woman

The president’s wife, Brigitte Macron, will lodge a complaint following the dissemination of false information on her identity, franceinfo learned on Monday, December 20, confirming information from Release.

Since November 7, several Twitter accounts have claimed, with the hashtag #JeanMichelTrogneux, that the First Lady is actually a transgender woman. [une personne dont le genre assigné à la naissance ne correspond pas à l’identité de genre ressentie] whose “deadname” [le nom donné à la naissance] would be Jean-Michel. These false messages also claim that Brigitte Macron is not the mother of her children.

More than 57,000 messages containing this hashtag were shared, especially around mid-December, identifies Release. The dissemination of this false information is particularly the result of accounts belonging to “profiles opposed to Emmanuel Macron, from the extreme right and anti-ax circles and covidosceptics “, writes the daily. The same kind of messages, often borrowing from transphobia, were also shared on Facebook “by pages of support for the movement of yellow vests or opposed to the health policy of the Macron presidency”.

This is not the first time that Brigitte Macron has been the subject of attacks relating to her physique. Several Brazilian government officials attacked her in 2019. During the presidential campaign and then after the election of Emmanuel Macron, his wife had already been the object of mockery related to their age difference of twenty -four years.