Brigitte Macron to Provide "Scientific Proof" She Is a Woman

Emmanuel Macron and his wife will present photographic and scientific evidence to an American court to prove she is a woman, their lawyer has said.

The Macrons will present the evidence in a defamation suit they have brought against Candace Owens, the Right-wing “Maga” influencer who has claimed Brigitte Macron was born male.

Speaking to the BBC, the couple’s lawyer said France’s first lady had found the accusations “incredibly upsetting” and they had disrupted Macron’s career.

“I don’t want to suggest that it somehow has thrown him off his game. But just like anybody who is juggling a career and a family life as well, when your family is under attack, it wears on you. And he’s not immune from that because he’s the president of a country,” Tom Clare said.

Clare said “expert testimony” would be presented at the trial and the couple were preparing to fully demonstrate “both generically and specifically” that Macron, 72, is a woman.

“It is incredibly upsetting to think that you have to go and subject yourself, to put this type of proof forward,” he said.

“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.

“If that unpleasantness and that discomfort that she has of opening herself up in that way is what it takes to set a record straight and stop this, she’s 100 per cent ready to meet that burden.”

He confirmed that photos of Macron pregnant and raising her children would be presented in court.

Owens, 36, a newspaper columnist turned Maga social media conspiracy theorist, said in March last year that she would stake her “entire professional reputation” on the allegation that Macron was born a man.

Her lawyers have filed a motion to dismiss Macron’s claim.

The conspiracy theory was born on social media and grew in prominence after a YouTube video by French bloggers Amandine Roy and Natacha Rey.

The Macrons won a defamation lawsuit in France against the two YouTubers but this was overturned last year on the basis of freedom of expression. They have appealed the decision.

In their lawsuit against Owens, the Macrons claim she “disregarded all credible evidence disproving her claim in favour of platforming known conspiracy theorists and proven defamers”.

Under American law, the Macrons will have to prove that Owens knowingly spread false information, which is known as “actual malice”.

Explaining their decision to take legal action, Macron said last month: “This is about defending my honour. Because this is nonsense.

“This is someone who knew full well that she had false information and did so with the aim of causing harm, in the service of an ideology and with established connections to far-Right leaders.”

Owens’ lawyers have applied to get the case thrown out of court, arguing that it should not have been filed in Delaware.