The claim was posted by an account called The General (@GeneralMCNews) who said: “BREAKING: French President Emmanuel Macron’s wife, Brigitte Macron discovered that her tax account on France’s official government website listed her as a male under the name “Jean-Michel.” This post went viral with more than 8 million views as of Monday.

WHEN right-wing YouTuber Candace Owens started claiming Brigitte Macron was a man, most of the French First Lady’s fellow citizens passed it off with a very Gallic shrug. Surely her

Brigitte Macron’s daughter testified that the false claims have left the first lady battling anxiety and social humiliation.

The French first lady's daughter claimed her mom's heath has deteriorated amid the relentless abuse targeting her gender.

Tiphaine Auziere, who is a lawyer and one of three children from Brigitte Macron's first marriage, spoke as a witness at the trial of eight men and two women accused of online harassment by creating or sharing social media posts repeating the false allegations about her mother.

Brigitte Macron’s daughter has told a Paris court that her mother can no longer ignore the “horrors that are being said” by cyber-bullies who baselessly claim she was born a man.