Brigitte Macron’s daughter has told a Paris court that false claims online that the French first lady was born a man had damaged her mother’s quality of life, leaving her worrying every day about the clothes she wears and how she stands.

Tiphaine Auzière, 41, a lawyer, was called as a witness at the trial of 10 people accused of online harassment of Brigitte Macron by creating or reposting social media posts falsely claiming she was a man.

Auzière said photographs of her mother, including private summer photos, had been posted online with negative comments. “The consequence is now that she systematically has to pay attention to what she wears, how she holds herself, no matter what she’s doing in her daily life, because she knows that her image can be distorted to serve these attacks.”

Eight men and two women, aged 41 to 60, are on trial in Paris for online harassment of Brigitte Macron. Some of the defendants had a small social media following, while others were better known. All are accused of making malicious comments about Brigitte Macron’s gender and sexuality. For some, this included equating her age difference with her husband, the French president Emmanuel Macron, to “paedophilia”. If convicted, they face up to two years in prison.

Auzière, who is one of three children from Brigitte Macron’s first marriage, said her mother had been affected by social media posts that had caused a “deterioration of her health” and a “deterioration of her quality of life”.

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