Brigitte Macron, wife of the French President Emmanuel Macron, is allegedly a man and a picture shows her as a boy during childhood.

Our verdict

This is false. The boy in the picture is Mrs Macron’s brother, Jean-Michel Trogneux. Two women who falsely claimed that Mrs Macron is transgender have been found guilty of slander in France.

A picture is being shared online with false claims it shows the First Lady of France, Brigitte Macron, as a boy in childhood.

A screenshot of a post on X (formerly Twitter) includes a picture of a young boy in a checked shirt, alongside a 2018 photo of the French First Lady, and is being shared as a video on Instagram. The posts say: “Brigitte Macron, The French President’s Emmanuel Macron’s Wife is allegedly a MAN and it’s now going Mainstream in France.”

But the claim is false, and is part of a baseless but enduring conspiracy theory which has been fact checked many times that Mrs Macron was not born female.

The picture of the boy is a cropped version of a photo of Mrs Macron’s family. The larger image shows Mrs Macron (whose maiden name was Trogneux) as a child sitting on her mother’s knee, next to her father, Jean Trogneux, and five siblings.

The boy on the left wearing the checked shirt is Mrs Macron’s brother, Jean-Michel Trogneux.

In September 2024, two women who falsely claimed Mrs Macron was transgender, and was actually her brother Jean-Michel, were found guilty of slander.

Mrs Macron and her brother, Mr Trogneux were awarded 8,000...

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