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Why Are False Rumours About Brigitte Macron Being Transgender Surfacing?
Euronews ^ | 04/02/2025 | Ian Smith

Posted on 02/12/2025 5:00:20 PM PST by nickcarraway

False rumours that Brigitte Macron is transgender have been spreading for years. Now Candace Owens, an American far right commentator, has published a video repeating them and gaining millions of views.

The debunked conspiracy theory that Brigitte Macron, the wife of French president Emmanuel Macron, was born a biological man and transitioned to become a woman has been pushed many times in recent years.

On Friday, far-right US commentator Candace Owens released a video titled Becoming Brigitte: An Introduction.

In it, she rehashes the claim that Macron was born a man and went by Jean-Michel Trogneux. She also claims to be the target of a legal threat from the French president. The video, which lasts 40 minutes, goes on to tangentially link the Macrons to a wider conspiracy involving paedophiles and an elite world order.

“When I said that I would stake my entire professional career on the fact that Brigitte Macron, the current first lady of France was born a man, there were many people of course who did not believe me because that just sounds crazy,” Owens says.

She offers no evidence to back up the claim — and it is not true.

What is the conspiracy theory about Brigitte Macron?

The conspiracy theory has been floating around since Emmanuel Macron was first elected in 2017. It was then pushed by self-described journalist Natacha Rey.

She claimed that Brigitte never existed and that her brother Jean-Michel Trogneux had changed gender and started using that name.

Rey was interviewed by Amandine Roy, a self-proclaimed spiritual medium, for a YouTube video in 2021, and the false theory went viral before the French presidential election in 2022.

The so-called evidence often pointed to is a picture of Jean-Michel as a child, which shows similarities to Brigitte, but as they are siblings, this is not unusual.

This led Brigitte Macron to file a libel complaint against Roy and Rey. In September the pair were ordered by a French court to pay €8,000 in damages to her and €5,000 to her brother.

Emmanuel Macron also commented on the claims for the first time last year, saying, “There are still some crazies out there.”

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".

According to US-based LGBTQ+ organisation GLAAD, “The practice maliciously targets cisgender public figures — from Madonna to Melania Trump to Olympic boxer Imane Khelif to Kyle Rittenhouse — and then ‘investigates’ them offering fake pseudo-scientific ‘evidence’ that they are transgender, with the underlying bigoted and ignorant implication that being a transgender person is a bad thing.”

The theories are often linked to broader conspiracies about global control, depopulation, or other secret agendas.

Another well-known example of this is Michelle Obama, who has faced theories that she is transgender for years.

“I've heard about the swampy parts of the internet that question everything about me, right down to whether I'm a woman or a man,” she wrote in her 2018 memoir.

“A sitting US congressman has made fun of my butt. I've been hurt. I've been furious. But mostly, I've tried to laugh this stuff off.”


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KEYWORDS: brigittemacron; candaceowens; globalhomo; gullibility; itstrue; macron; smear; trangender
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1 posted on 02/12/2025 5:00:20 PM PST by nickcarraway
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Organized gangs of trolls? I would check 4chan!


2 posted on 02/12/2025 5:04:18 PM PST by proxy_user
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To: nickcarraway

‘Cause she’s ugly?

CC


3 posted on 02/12/2025 5:04:54 PM PST by Celtic Conservative (My cats are more amusing than 200 channels worth of TV.)
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Why Are False Rumours About Brigitte Macron Being Transgender Surfacing?

Simple. Because half of the population is below average in intelligence.

4 posted on 02/12/2025 5:04:55 PM PST by Jim Noble (Assez de mensonges et de phrases)
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To: Celtic Conservative

Because she was his high school teacher and is 30 plus years older than Macron?


5 posted on 02/12/2025 5:08:12 PM PST by 9422WMR
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To: nickcarraway

What’s the current score of the conspiracy theories?


6 posted on 02/12/2025 5:12:11 PM PST by Raycpa
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To: Jim Noble

Members of one group don’t mind investigating unusual claims.

Another group like to call them “conspiracy theorists.”

The first group are better thinkers than the second.


7 posted on 02/12/2025 5:15:24 PM PST by reasonisfaith (What are the personal implications if the Resurrection of Christ is a true event in history?)
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To: Jim Noble

The worst thinkers are the manipulators in the CIA and elsewhere who invent phrases like “conspiracy theory” for the sole purpose of discouraging independent thought.


8 posted on 02/12/2025 5:17:24 PM PST by reasonisfaith (What are the personal implications if the Resurrection of Christ is a true event in history?)
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To: Raycpa

“Conspiracy theorist are up something like 37 to nothing.” 💯 pic.twitter.com/oSfgfZXa8q— Kory Yeshua (@KoryYeshua) January 30, 2025


9 posted on 02/12/2025 5:19:21 PM PST by Jane Long (Jesus is Lord!)
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To: nickcarraway

I am not watching the Owens videos, but I have a question for those who are: If Brigitte had a brother named Jean-Michel Trogneux, what happened to him? Is he alive? Has he ever appeared with his sister? This would seem relatively easy to establish.


10 posted on 02/12/2025 5:20:30 PM PST by Stingray51 ( )
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To: nickcarraway

Candace Owens is a jerk.


11 posted on 02/12/2025 5:20:55 PM PST by Williams (Thank God for the election of President Trump!)
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I don't know if they are false true or somewhere in the middle and don't care.

I do note that humans tend to be fascinated by gossip.

12 posted on 02/12/2025 5:21:58 PM PST by Harmless Teddy Bear ( Not my circus. Not my monkeys. But I can pick out the clowns at 100 yards.)
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To: nickcarraway

Because some people are assholes.


13 posted on 02/12/2025 5:22:56 PM PST by JSM_Liberty
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To: Jim Noble

Those who give some amount of consideration to the possibility that Bridgette Macron is a man are found in the more intelligent half of the population.

The less intelligent half of the population harbors those who refuse to consider the possibility.


14 posted on 02/12/2025 5:23:42 PM PST by reasonisfaith (What are the personal implications if the Resurrection of Christ is a true event in history?)
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To: Jim Noble

And when it comes to Mrs. Macron, it’s a far higher number than that, on this site, who not only fell for that garbage, but then, when told the facts, REFUSED to believe them!


15 posted on 02/12/2025 5:24:53 PM PST by nopardons
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To: Williams

Truth! I stopped paying attention to her quite a while ago!


16 posted on 02/12/2025 5:24:58 PM PST by quilterdebbie (We will endeavor to persevere!)
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To: nickcarraway

“False rumors.” Sounds like “baseless claims.” Did Ian lift Macaron’s skirt? If not, he no more knows the rumors are false than the people spreading them know they are true.


17 posted on 02/12/2025 5:27:40 PM PST by Rastus
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To: nickcarraway

She does resemble a man. Looking at her at the reopening of the Notre Dame Cathedral she looked like a guy.

I really don’t much care if she is or isn’t though.


18 posted on 02/12/2025 5:31:11 PM PST by dforest
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To: quilterdebbie

Never liked her, considered her shallow and attention getting. Don’t trust her. We have all the great issues in the world, and she’s handing them this stupid issue.

Almost a total change of subject, always liked Michelle Malkin even though she’d get super angry. They sidelined her over some comments.


19 posted on 02/12/2025 5:31:18 PM PST by Williams (Thank God for the election of President Trump!)
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20 posted on 02/12/2025 5:34:13 PM PST by MNDude
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