Brigitte Macron: How – and from whom – the reputation of being a man

A lawsuit for slander has been filed by France’s First Lady, Brigitte Macron, against 36 -year -old Podcaster Canta Owen, far -right Influenchers and the voice of the most extreme fans of the Maga movement, who has spread in recent years that Brigitte was born 72.

Malitsa, Macron will be forced to submit “photographic” and “scientific” evidence to deny Owen’s allegations and to prove that Brigitte is a woman in an unprecedented judicial case in the US.

But how did the situation come to this point?

From unfounded reputation on the internet, to one of the most prominent and strange judicial cases of the time

After the first election of Emmanuel Macron in 2017, conspiracy theories began about his wife, Brigitte, but stayed on a low, online level, something like “whispers”.

However, the comments that Bridget Macron was transsexual began to be “established” by a “research” of his 2021 published in a small, magazine who was accused of promoting anti -Semitism and conspiracy theories, entitled Faits et Documents (Events & Documents).

The article, signed by the self -proclaimed independent journalist Natacha Rey and Xavier Poussard, went unnoticed for some time.

This happened until Rey gave an interview to YouTube about speculations of “spiritual psychic” Delphine Jégousse – also known as Amandine Roy – in a four -hour video that went viral before the France presidential election in 2022.

In the video, the journalist claimed to have had information on Brigitte Macron’s leaf movementciting an old photo of the Togen family (first lady’s father), in which a baby girl sits on her mother’s knees.

According to Ray, the smiling baby girl is not Brigitte, but her niece, Natalie Farsi – who remained orphaned when Brigitt’s older sister, Mace, was killed in a car crash.

On the contrary, she recognized the boy with the plaid shirt in the left corner of the photo as the future first lady and not her brother, Jean-Michel.

In fact, he claimed that what a boy underwent sex change intervention in the early 1980s, at the age of 30.

The journalist’s trigger to investigate Brigitte Macron’s past was her “physical shape”, claiming that experts, including plastic surgeons, “all agree with me that (Brigitte Macron) is a transsexual.”

The birth of Brigitte Macron was recorded on April 13, 1953 in the daily Courier Picard newspaper. However, Faits Et Documents said that Elise’s officials “could not provide a photo of Brigitte as a child”.

However, the Daily Mail has found many evidence in reliable French editions, including seven -year -old Brigitte to take her first divine community, a photo of her playing in the garden of her home, as well as a dressed bride, her wedding day with her first (deceased) husband.

In 2024, Brigitte Macron herself filed a slanderous defamation against two women, who were initially sentenced to fines and compensation, though they were subsequently acquitted by the Court of Appeal, forcing France’s First Lady to appeal to the Supreme Court of Appeal.

The case could stop there, but then Canta Owens appeared.

Famous American blogger in March 2024 republished and made viral the video with conspiracy theory That Brigitte Macron was “born a man”.

In fact, in exploiting its success, in January 2025 he created a series Video – “Documentary” entitled “Becoming Brigitte”which had a global appeal.

Owens even was selling “humorous” t -shirts that depicted Brigitte on the cover of Time magazine as a “man of the year”.

Eventually, Macron’s patience was exhausted.

On July 23, 2025, the French presidential couple filed a lawsuit against the 36 -year -old internet persona, accusing it of spreading “weird, defamatory and unlikely fantasies”.