French President Emmanuel Macron condemned “false information and fabricated scenarios” referring to rumors on social networks that his wife is a transgender woman, Agence France-Presse reported, BTA reported.
“The worst is false information and fabricated scenarios, and the people who end up believing them put pressure on you, including in your private life,” the president told reporters at the end of the ceremony to include the right to abortion in the French Constitution. .
Since 2017 and the election of Emmanuel Macron, social media has regularly been swarming with conspiracy theories that Brigitte Macron, née Trogno, is actually a transgender woman whose birth name was Jean-Michel.
According to these rumors, there is a huge conspiracy that aims to cover up this change in marital status, which has also led to more serious accusations of pedophilia against the first lady.
“Against this machismo, we must use the law, the justice system,” Macron said, calling for the strengthening of the “digital public order” in social networks. He described them as “a wonderful place for the craziest events”, but added that, in his opinion, there are still “no rules”.
On March 6 next year, two women will be brought before a court in Paris on charges of defamation for spreading transphobic rumors about the wife of the head of state, a source familiar with the case announced today.
In 2017 and 2018, former New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern and former US First Lady Michelle Obama were also the subject of rumors that they were born male, AFP recalls.
The French president said that “a huge educational work needs to be done” and added that “the feminist struggle is not a struggle of women, but of men and women”.
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2024-03-08 20:12:00
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