The French president and his wife will present scientific evidence in court to prove she is not a man.

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Emmanuel Macron and his wife, Brigitte, are planning to present photographic and scientific evidence in a US court to prove that Mrs. Macron is a woman.

Their lawyer says the French president and Brigitte Macron will submit documentation in a defamation lawsuit they have filed against right-wing influencer Candace Owens after she promoted her belief that Brigitte Macron was born male.

The Macron family's lawyer, Tom Clare, while being invited to the BBC's Fame Under Fire podcast, said that Brigitte is extremely concerned about these allegations and that they have brought distraction to the French president.

"I don't want to suggest that this has somehow taken him off his game. But, like anyone who is dealing with a career and a family life, when your family is under attack, it hurts you. And he is not immune to that because he is the president of a country," he said.

Clare said there would be "expert evidence that will be of a scientific nature" and, while he would not reveal, at this stage, the exact nature of it, he said the couple were prepared to fully demonstrate "both generally and specifically" that the allegations are false.

"It's extremely disturbing to think that you have to go and subject yourself to this kind of evidence. It's a process that she's going to undergo in a very public way. But she's willing to do it. She's determined to do everything she can to clarify the situation. If that discomfort and that embarrassment that she feels from opening herself up in that way is what it takes to establish a clear story and stop this, she's 100% willing to take on that burden."
The allegations were spread on YouTube in 2021 by French bloggers Amadine Roy and Natacha Rey. The Macron family initially won a defamation case in France against Roy and Rey in 2024, but that decision was overturned on appeal in 2025 on grounds of freedom of expression, not truth. The Macron family is appealing the decision.

In July, the Macron family filed a lawsuit against Owens in the US. It claims that she "ignored all credible evidence disproving her claim in favor of the platform of well-known conspiracy theorists and proven defamers."

In August, Emmanuel Macron explained to French magazine Paris Match why they had chosen to pursue legal action.

"This is about protecting my honor! Because this is absurd. This is someone who knew very well that he had false information and did this with the intention of causing harm, in the service of an ideology and with established connections to far-right leaders."


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