Is Brigitte Macron Really a Man? Let’s Worry Instead about What Her Husband Does Re WW III and Lawfare! By Richard Miller (Londonistan)
This debate kicked off in earnest around 2021, though whispers had been floating in French far-Right and conspiracy circles before then. It centres on Brigitte Macron, the wife of French President Emmanuel Macron. The claim? She's not a woman but a man—specifically, her own brother, Jean-Michel Trogneux, who supposedly transitioned in the 1980s and assumed a new identity. The story goes that Brigitte, born Brigitte Marie-Claude Trogneux in 1953, either never existed as a woman or faked her entire life history, including her marriage to her first husband, André-Louis Auzière, and the birth of her three kids. Proponents point to a supposed lack of early photos (debatable), her "masculine" features (subjective), and the mysterious absence of her ex-husband from public life until his death in 2019 (he was just private, folks).
This theory got legs in December 2021 when a four-hour YouTube video dropped, featuring a self-styled journalist, Natacha Rey, and a psychic, Amandine Roy. They spun a yarn claiming Brigitte's first husband never existed, her kids were secretly born to someone else, and it's all a grand "state lie" to prop up Emmanuel Macron's image. The video racked up half a million views before YouTube yanked it for violating its rules. But the damage was done—#JeanMichelTrogneux started trending in France, and the rumour festered among anti-Macron groups.
Fast forward to 2024, and the conspiracy crossed the Atlantic. American commentator Candace Owens latched onto it, declaring she'd "stake her entire professional reputation" on Brigitte being a man. She dug into old family photos, arguing Brigitte looked too much like her brother (siblings resembling each other), and suggested the Macrons were hiding something sinister. Tucker Carlson jumped in too, calling it plausible on his YouTube show. The French weren't amused—Brigitte sued Rey and Roy for libel, winning in September 2024 with a court ordering them to pay damages. Emmanuel Macron himself called it "false and fabricated," lamenting how it messed with their private life.
The evidence? Thin as a crepe. Conspiracy buffs lean on cherry-picked photos, gaps in public records (not unusual for a private citizen pre-fame), and wild leaps—like claiming her ex-husband's obscurity means he's a phantom. On the flip side, Brigitte's life is well-documented: born in Amiens to a chocolate-making family, taught school, married Auzière in 1974, had three kids, divorced in 2006, and wed Macron in 2007. Court records, family testimony, and basic logic (she'd have to fake decades of life flawlessly) debunk the theory. It's been slapped down by outlets like Euronews, Reuters, and French courts, yet it keeps shambling along like a zombie rumour.
Now, here's the kicker: who cares? Seriously. Let's zoom out. Emmanuel Macron's been rattling sabres over Ukraine, pushing NATO to get tougher on Russia, and even floating the idea of a European nuclear umbrella, moves that could, in a worst-case scenario, nudge us toward a nuclear standoff. The world's got bigger fish to fry than dissecting Brigitte's gender. This whole debate feels like textbook "bread and circuses"—a juicy distraction to keep us gawking while the real stakes pile up. Whether she's a woman, a man, or a time-traveling alien, it doesn't change the fact that her husband's policies could have us all glowing in the dark. Obsessing over this is like rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic—entertaining, sure, but the iceberg's still coming. Let's focus on the war drums, not the rumour mill.
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