As if the news weren’t depressing enough, I woke up today to read that Brigitte Macron, the wife of French president, Emmanuel Macron, is preparing to present photographic and ‘scientific’ evidence that she’s a woman.

This is part of a defamation case against Candace Owens, a political commentator who keeps insisting Macron is ‘a man’.

The rumour began in 2021 when two French YouTubers made the same claim. Macron sued them and won in 2024, only for the ruling to be overturned on appeal in 2025 under the banner of freedom of expression. I don’t know about you, but I wouldn’t exactly call it ‘freedom’ to maliciously invent lies about someone.

But now Owens has taken up the mantle of targeting Brigitte, and the Macrons are going to court again.

It says everything about the state of the wo

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