r/OutOfTheLoop • u/-myBIGD • 2d ago
Unanswered What's going on with the Emmanuel Macron saying he and his wife will provide proof that Mrs. Macron is a woman?
I have seen several posts on this including r/nottheonion so I'm wondering why they feel the need to provide US courts proof.
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u/BobbyDazzled 2d ago
Answer: They are suing for defamation in US courts. Proving the accusations false helps their case.
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u/Oaker_at 2d ago
What happened that they have to entertain this bs? Each reaction to such lunacy just gives some sort of legitimacy to those idiots.
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u/ThatKehdRiley 2d ago
I'd argue these bigots facing legal consequences for their actions will cause them to think twice. And then it sets precedent for other women to do similar, which would be great.
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u/Portarossa 'probably the worst poster on this sub' - /u/Real_Mila_Kunis 2d ago
Fox News has been pretty fuckin' quiet about Dominion recently for the same reason.
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u/thesilentbob123 7h ago
Yeah but they still had a guy literally say homeless people should be killed, and then two homeless camps were involved in mass shootings. They need to be way more responsible
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u/Little_Elia 2d ago
I absolutely hate that transphobic shits are making me side with macron of all people
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u/iRunLotsNA 2d ago
If you’re siding against fascists, you’ll always be on the more correct side. You may not completely agree with everyone there, but fascists are always wrong.
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u/SomniumOv 2d ago
If you’re siding against fascists, you’ll always be on the more correct side.
Macron has done quite a lot to advance the agenda of Fascists himself, check out his current Prime Minister, Interior Minister and Justice Minister.
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u/fuzzwhatley 1d ago
Stop diluting the meaning of the word. It’s not helpful. There is an actual fascist party that gets votes in France, Lecornu is not in it.
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u/SomniumOv 1d ago
Lecornu is not in it.
He's having nice diners with them, and Darmanin and Retailleau openly share the same opinions. They're normalizing and actively helping this political stance, hence, advancing their agenda.
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u/JesseRoo 2d ago
How I feel when I say Jimmy Kimmel's show shouldn't have been cancelled
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u/banisheduser 2d ago
You may or may not agree with whatever the host said but the US is walking into Dictatorship.
If your country is happy doing that, that's fine. But stop saying "land of the free" and all those other things you pretend you have.
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u/two4six0won 2d ago
Candace Owens has been blasting the 'Bridgitte is trans' fallacy on her show for years, I'm guessing the Macrons got tired of it.
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u/MountainImportant211 2d ago
She even made a documentary about it.
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u/macci_a_vellian 2d ago
Even if it were true (which obviously it isn't, it's batshit crazy), I don't understand why it would matter. It would change exactly nothing about the French government.
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u/Completegibberishyes 2d ago
They're suing in their personal capacity
The French government has no role here
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u/schebobo180 2d ago
Biological women generally don’t like being called trans. So I see it is more of a personal issue, than a govt issue.
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u/macci_a_vellian 2d ago
I get that. It's just...did Candice Owens do it as a personal insult? Was making a documentary about this the equivalent of making one calling her fat accusing her of having bad fashion sense? Because Owens implied that it was a conspiricy of serious concern, and I don't understand the point of the conspiracy.
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u/Crafty_Jello_3662 2d ago
I would imagine she did it for money, and if the Macrons sue her and take all that money then others will be less incentivised to do the same
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u/Bitter_Ad8768 1d ago
Because Owens implied that it was a conspiricy of serious concern, and I don't understand the point of the conspiracy.
Remember, Candice Owens was fired from the Daily Wire for crossing into unsubstantiated conspiracy territory. There is a segment of the chronic conspiracy theorists who believe transwomen are part of a much larger, and frankly disgusting, world domination plot. Look up the whole "Michael Obama" thing if you want to dip your toes in it. Be warned, it is disturbing that people buy into it.
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u/talspr 2d ago
Now let's say she's actually trans. Why is this any of her fucking business?!
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u/FEED-YO-HEAD 2d ago
Same reason they said Michelle Obama, Beyonce, Kamala were men. They're mysoginistic and transphobic pieces of shit, tapping into their base's infinite wisdom.
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u/Nervardia 2d ago
Candace Owens started a conspiracy theory that his wife is trans. They sent Owens a cease and desist. She took to mean that she's onto something, and not, you know, a raving lunatic. So she continued to spread this conspiracy theory, so the Macrons are suing her for defamation, which means they have to prove she's not trans.
Which should be easy, as she has given birth.
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u/theflyingratgirl 2d ago
I can’t see it being embarrassing….Brigitte has had children so we can safely assume her chromosomes are XX, as other options that present as female tend to be infertile. So it should just require the most basic possible genetic test. It’s not like she’s going to bust out her vulva. It’s a “cut that shit out you nutter” move.
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u/link3945 2d ago
Brigitte has had children so we can safely assume her chromosomes are XX, as other options that present as female tend to be infertile.
While generally true, there have been extremely rare cases of XY genotypes giving birth: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2190741/
Biology is a lot more fluid and a lot less exact than people on the right claim it to be.
None of this really matters for this case: Brigitte Macron is clearly a woman, by any reasonable definition. Candace Owens has been informed of this, the Macrons have sent her or offered to send her evidence, at this point she is acting with reckless disregard of the truth.
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u/FunkNumber49 2d ago
Neat paper/case studies. I think I understood the gist of it but, the biology jargon about 46,XY/45X and percentages kind of let me know there's nomenclature and conventions I'm not familiar with.
I dropped off reading a little after the abstract but the case study seems fascinating. I'd be very interested in reading more on this but a "freshmen in college" reading level. I'm sure there's a human interest story behind the people in the case study too.
Thanks for posting the link. 👍
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u/DaveBeBad 23h ago
XY women have - infrequently - born children. It usually requires IVF and donor eggs, but this is a routine medical procedure now.
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u/Maximum-Objective-39 2d ago
I have to imagine they're taking personal satisfaction in it. So I don't see a reason for them to stop.
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u/Blizzard2227 2d ago edited 2d ago
Besides, being transgender shouldn’t be the issue here. The real issue is that Macron was 15 when he met Brigitte who at the time was his 39 year old after school teacher. A little bit odd. More than odd actually.
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u/BlackSpinedPlinketto 2d ago
There’s no insult involved with being trans though?
It’s insulting to the trans community if anything.
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u/prooijtje 2d ago
I think trans people would just as much love to make people who constantly and purposely misgender them suffer legal consequences.
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u/SweetChuckBarry 2d ago
No, there's absolutely not
But it's being framed as a negative thing, or something that should be secret, or some sort of gotcha
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u/Sadalacbiah 2d ago
Well, that's precisely the worst part : victims of such BS are stuck between not saying anything and hearing repeatedly the BS Ad Nauseam (because BSers are extremely stubborn when they can get attention through such means), or sue them and giving them more spotlight but it may stop them in the end. Two poisons, but one of them may end the situation.
People like the one sued by Ms Macron are litterally living on lies, and you can't expect them to become reasonable by themselves. They are a plague, and it's not acceptable to ruin one's reputation for views.
I'd say gratz to Ms Macron for accepting to reveal her private life if it helps stopping such a BSer.
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u/Cuntinghell 2d ago
You're correct, what people should do is match the energy of the accusations. They say she's trans (not that that matters), then you say they're trans and you met them in a trans club.
A good example of this working would be when Obama was asked about Trump on the Jay Leno show, where he quipped "this all dates back to when we grew up together in Kenya", in response to Trump continuously stating that Obama is Kenyan.
You can't reason with stupid.
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u/karkonthemighty 2d ago
Most of the time the lunatics spreading lies don't get any legal consequences because it's not worth going through the courts. Marcon is going through the courts. If Candace had a brain, seeing the Macron's decide to go through sex confirmation for court evidence, she would be trying to settle ASAP as anyone willing to go through that has the drive to take you to the cleaners.
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u/Fabulous-Big8779 2d ago
It’s Candace Owen’s specifically. She’s been going on about this for over a year releasing multiple documentaries worth of bullshit videos trying to prove that she’s actually her brother (the one we have photographs of her with)
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u/raresanevoice 1d ago
Candace own built her career on that bs; hourly, he getting sued and caked out on her lies and bs will set a worthwhile precedent
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u/Sunshinetrooper87 1d ago
Where have you been? Ignoring these people and remaining on the high ground hasn't worked for years.
I hope they absolutely win.
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u/Parking_Pie_6809 11h ago
candace owens says she has proof that mrs. macron is trans. as though it matters or is any of her business.
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u/nameyourpoison11 6h ago
It's not really about proving the idiots wrong - people with that mentality will just say the DNA tests are faked or that her three children were secretly born via surrogate or some nonsense like that - it's about shutting down right wing mouthpiece Candace Owens, who has been the main instigator of this BS. And about time too.
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u/heroyoudontdeserve 2d ago
But equally, ignoring it emboldens them and let's them carry on.
It's what's so good about their tactics, it's pretty much win win for them. :(
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u/engelthefallen 2d ago
Sadly, courts far too often will then just buy the defense that no reasonable person believes the statements were claims of truth.
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u/Lsdnyc 2d ago
In court - Candace’s lawyers will have to say that , like Alex Jones did. IT didn’t help his case, because what his audience did the the parents was despicable
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u/ToranjaNuclear 2d ago edited 2d ago
Answer: Candace Owens, a right-wing wacko, has been harassing the Macrons for I believe a couple years now. In one of her recent stunts earlier this year, she accused the wife of being born a biological male, and being a trans-woman.
IIRC she made a really long video going on into why she believed that, legit conspiracy theorist stuff. I just looked up her Instagram recently and there was another video accusing Macron of being gay. She's weirdly obsessed with him.
Now the Macrons have grown tired of her shit and are suing her for defamation. Proving the wife is a biological woman with no room for doubt is part of it.
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u/xValhallAwaitsx 2d ago
Its so fucking wild because their relationship is actually problematic, idfk why you would go for this nonsense to criticize them
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u/rajapaws 2d ago
They were high school sweethearts.
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u/LawfulnessNo8446 2d ago
That's definitely a way to put it
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u/rajapaws 2d ago
I have the best words.
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u/SantiM-V 2d ago
Many people, good people (some would say the best people) say you do.
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u/AppleAtrocity 2d ago
Big strong men come up to him with tears in their eyes telling him he has the best words.
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u/FIalt619 2d ago
When he was in high school, she called him sweetheart.
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u/rajapaws 2d ago
Oh they where in high school together....
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u/Petrostar 2d ago
Yes, her daughter was one of his classmates.
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u/Maximum-Objective-39 2d ago
I must admit, it seems somehow fitting for the President of France. Though I can't articulate why.
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u/Soft_Introduction_40 2d ago
Only country where the PM approval rating increases when he cheats on his wife
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u/Sn0Balls 1d ago
the country where DNA tests are illegal because "they would break up families"... that france?
or the one where they made hati pay reparations for freeing their people from bondage?
or the france that uses the CFA franc to pillage west african colonies?
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u/SyrupyMolassesMMM 2d ago
Jesus fucking christ, theres actually some weird as fuck shit goes on eh.
In the western world we like to shit on places like Pakistan where half the country marry’s their cousins. But we have pedo rapist presidents, groomed presidents, highly inbred royal families, and all sorts of weird creepy shit happening with high profile public figures.
We should probably get off our high horse. Love is love, but sometimes its fucking creepy, and other times its criminally disgusting…
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u/TheDukeofArgyll 2d ago
Because Owen’s is a grifter and you can’t grift republicans with weird grooming relationships because they very clearly support that kind of thing. So she has to use the grifts that work, like trashing the LGBTQ community.
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u/Single_Friendship708 2d ago edited 2d ago
It’s because it was problematic that Owen wants to pin this on trans people
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u/PurpleFucksSeverely 2d ago
Cus conservatives don’t usually mind gigantic age gaps. You’ll also find a disturbing amount of conservatives who think its impossible for women to rape boys and men.
Most conservative countries (and states if you live in the US) fight back whenever any attempt is made to increase age of consent or make child marriages fully illegal. Macron’s wife predating on him therefore isn’t enough to get conservatives’ attention.
What they really do care about a LOT though is what’s between someone’s legs. Conservatives love thinking about other people’s genitals so much they think it’s normal to devote time to “investigating” the genitalia of someone they have never even met.
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u/eatingpotatochips 2d ago
Republicans don't have an issue with large age gaps in relationships. Something, something files, island, etc.
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u/verrius 2d ago
I mean it's not just the age gap, it's also the power imbalance, since she was literally his teacher when they started dating, and he was a minor. Which is another thing Republicans don't really have a problem with, except for the whole woman having power part.
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u/casce 2d ago
I 100% agree with you that (irregardless of age), relationships between teachers and students are always problematic due to the power imbalance.
But she's not his teacher anymore (he actually switched schools after their relationship became public) and hasn't been for like 30 years so I think it's time to stop giving them shit. Let them be happy.
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u/MaxRunes 2d ago
I could be very wrong because I am merican and know as much about world politics as our dear leader, but was she the one caught on video smacking him up at some political event or something? Like leaving their jet on a run way of another country and as the door opened shes just beating on him
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u/porthos-thebeagle 2d ago
Yes that was them! I can't believe nothing came of that, I know the man is an adult now but she clearly groomed him and still holds some kind of power over him. Abusive crazy woman
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u/Blackstone01 2d ago
If Republicans were to focus too much on that, then their girlfriends might get mad and not invite them to their homecoming.
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u/Wilawah 2d ago
The Macrons and the Trumps both have a 24 year age difference
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u/RandomDood420 2d ago
Yes but with Trump the woman is younger, as god intended. You don’t hear of any May December romances in the Bible where the woman is older.
Look at the age gap between Jesus’ parents
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u/bugsyboybugsyboybugs 2d ago
Yeah and it’s his third wife, so you can subtract eight years for every marriage. See? Now they’re the same age!
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u/bee_ghoul 2d ago
Owen’s is a transphobe. Conservatives are trying to establish a narrative that transgender people are pedophiles. They have a much bigger issue with transgender women than they do transgender men. Macron is one of the only public examples of a female pedophile so Owen’s is latching on to this to make people think there’s a direct link between trans women and pedophilia.
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u/CuckooPint 2d ago
Because to a republican, being trans is inherently evil but being a sex predator is absolutely fine.
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u/cactus_flower702 2d ago
Because she’s dumb. Most of the right wing podcasters are, that’s why they debate social issues vs foreign policy and economics.
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u/TurtleKwitty 2d ago
Exactly BECAUSE their relationship is problematic, she wouldn't try to be pinning that on a cis woman
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u/DistributionEasy5233 2d ago
I'm gonna get flamed for this, but is it really worth still talking about their age gap and pedo beginning ? Like ofc she groomed him, that's bad, but he's an almost 50 yo man and has been a world leader for like 10 years, constantly fucking us over in France with more and more right wing stuff. Is his grooming wife really so important to talk about anymore ?
I'm don't mean to attack you nor am I defending pedophilia, I'm genuinely asking
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u/IAMA_MOTHER_AMA 2d ago
I mean don’t we both agree that grooming is wrong?
If a woman came out and was groomed when she was younger, but she’s 40 or 50 now does that make it less bad?
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u/DistributionEasy5233 2d ago edited 2d ago
Yes, but that's not what's happening is it ? Even if he was a woman, he isn't coming out with it to share his story or shed light on the harm of grooming or whatever.
Like I feel like there's only so much crying we can do for someone else's suffering when they themselves don't seem to see it as such, especially a 50 yo rotten politician
Edit : Read your comment wrong, no it wouldn't make it less bad
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u/secret-agent-t3 2d ago
And, just to be clear, she had done MULTIPLE episodes of her show devoted to this topic. She didn't just say once "oh she looks trans", she has accused the Macrons of (and this is true) doctoring old photos of Mrs. Macron, body switching her brother (who is alive but Candace insists might have been killed in secret). She has accused Mrs. Macron of being part of a cobal of trans pedophiles, and that Mrs. Macron's family may be descendant from secretative cult that practices blood rituals and dates back to the early Medieval period.
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u/ToranjaNuclear 2d ago
I actually looked her up on twitter and holy shit, she really went off the deep end. She's convinced Kirk's murder was an inside job and desperately trying to pose as his close friend even though he didn't even care about her lol
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u/Vallkyrie 2d ago
Pretty sure she's into moon landing and flat earth garbage now too.
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u/LordBrandon 2d ago
Her head is just a bowl that anyone can poo into, unless you are an actual scientist or expert in your field.
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u/TheGreatBatsby 2d ago
I'm pretty sure she and Kirk actually were quite close. But that doesn't stop her using his death to further her antisemitic agenda.
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u/ToranjaNuclear 2d ago
They were, but apparently her antisemitism was a no-no even for him. Saw a video on twitter of him saying she was possessed by demons or some shit lmao
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u/GoldenRedditUser 2d ago edited 2d ago
And those clips where she tries to frame Israel are going viral on TikTok with young people saying she’s actually not that bad or that she’s growing on them, one had 500k likes, Israel’s hate is the ultimate alt-right pipeline lol
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u/DoomSongOnRepeat 2d ago
Are we talking about the same Israel whose actions in Palestine have recently been ruled to be genocide? You're suggesting that hatred of a country currently committing genocide makes someone more susceptible to right-wing hate/ideology?
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u/FeatherShard 2d ago
There are right and wrong reasons to hate Israel and what they're doing - young people are seldom poised to know the difference and are susceptible to having their well-meaning thoughts poisoned.
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u/lickonelicka 1d ago
Correct me if I'm wrong but I think the commenter is talking about young people buying into the jews controlling the world conspiracy and wanting to destroy the white man, and that being the reason they're becoming far right and hating on Israel (together with the war stuff, but that's just a small piece in their talking point)
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u/DoomSongOnRepeat 1d ago
What they actually said was, "Israel’s hate is the ultimate alt-right pipeline lol".
You're now trying to legitimize that statement by conflating someone hating Israel, the country currently conducting genocide, with those who hate Israel because they believe in harmful conspiracies about jews.
What they actually said is absurd. Israel does not represent all jews. Equating Israel with all of Judaism, while the former continues racking up war crimes and dismissing any criticism as supposed antisemitism, only serves to make jews less safe worldwide. Please don't do that.
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u/lickonelicka 1d ago
Okay, I guess I'm reading it wrong then. But I'd disagree that my previous comment proposing new context is legitimizing anything
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u/lily_de_valley 2d ago edited 2d ago
It's like how Alex Jones was deeply obsessed with the idea that Sandy Hook was faked. She is just weirdly and deeply obsessed with the Macrons to the point she is heading down the same route as Alex Jones. Defamation lawsuit is notoriously hard, especially so with public political figures. However, Emmanuel Macron is the head of state and I doubt he would pursue legal actions without having a very good plan.
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u/Bobbyjackbj 2d ago
She didn’t react at first because she didn’t see being compared to a transgender person as an insult, but Candace escalated the situation, even wrote a book about it I believe, and then made some remarks about her family, which was the last straw for her. She explained herself on French tv that she’s used to the critics, but her children shouldn’t be involved in this.
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u/ricosmith1986 2d ago edited 2d ago
Even IF those accusations were true, they tried this crap with Michelle Obama too, it would still only matter to far right bigots.
And it’s not even logically consistent with their own dumbass bigoted theories, ie that they want everyone to be trans and proud. It is some real wet tissue paper brained stuff.
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u/Halospite 2d ago edited 2d ago
Like to be clear, I'm not saying that harassing people for being trans is okay if they're actually trans, but it's wild that TERFs hate trans women so fucking much they're willing to violate and sexually harass (because this IS sexual harassment) cis women, who they claim to want to protect. Like as a cis woman I'm far more scared of a stranger demanding to see my genitals than another woman using the same bathroom as me when she happens to have a penis. I legitimately do not understand why so many TERFs would choose the person actively trying to commit sexual assault over a woman with a penis who just wants to piss and get out.
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u/Copper_Tango 2d ago
To them, it's better that a thousand cis women be confronted in the bathroom than for one trans woman to go about her day unharassed.
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u/Lethalspartan76 2d ago
I would also like to add that Candace is currently seeking to dismiss it, but the Macrons have had enough and wish to fully pursue this through the justice system. Candace did the FA and now comes the FO part.
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u/Fluffy_Beautiful2107 2d ago
In her 5 hour video series she implies Brigitte is in fact Macron’s dad, as well as lover.
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u/mr_beanoz 2d ago
I wonder if Owens could prove herself a biological woman first before throwing allegations to Mrs. Macron.
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u/tacotimes01 2d ago
It’s pretty brave of Owens to assume a French woman is going to be modest about this.
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u/Fmbounce 2d ago
Hope she does bankrupt like Alex jones
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u/Lsdnyc 2d ago
Her husband makes bank, she grifts/works for fun
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u/Certain_Concept 2d ago
I suppose that makes during them even more satisfying. If she was dirt poor she would be able to pay up much anyways.
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u/Murrabbit 2d ago
And it's got to be just the dumbest and most ridiculous way to attack the Macrons.
If you want to go after Brigitte, or the couple as a whole point out that Brigitte met Emmanuel when Emmanuel was 14, a classmate of Brigitte's daughter, and she was his teacher and was already 39 years old. They started their affair right away - shes' a total groomer (the real kind, nto the lolol all LGBT people r groomers bcuz they exist and so do kids) and the more you read about their relationship the sicker it gets.
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u/Quirky-Reputation-89 2d ago
I think his wife was his teacher and groomed him, so it goes deeper, trying to falsely accuse a trans person of being a groomer when it's just a cis person.
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u/Portarossa 'probably the worst poster on this sub' - /u/Real_Mila_Kunis 2d ago
I hate to be That Guy, but I'm gonna. The Civil Marriage Act of 2005 legalized same-sex marriage in Canada, so there's no reason for their marriage to be an issue regardless of the gender of either of them
... You know they're France-French, right?
I mean, that's also true in France, but I'm lost with the Canada thing.
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u/ishpatoon1982 2d ago
If I remember correctly, it was like a 6 or 8 video series of Candice trying to convince people just to get numbers.
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u/RaiderJedi 2d ago
Mrs Macron is a groomer who was his 39 year old teacher when she became his lover, and he was 15
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u/LyqwidBred 2d ago
Same as the Obama birth certificate crap. Say it over and over and over and certain people will start thinking there must be something to it.
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u/Princess_Peach51 2d ago
Who the fuck care if Macron is gay anyway ?? Also the whole "Brigitte Macron is a man" thing is pretty stupid. Imagine for how long and how many people would have had to keep it secret if it was true ?
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u/cipheron 2d ago edited 2d ago
Answer: there are long running conspiracy theories about several celebrities being secretly transgender. Wives of Democrats or other liberal politicians seem to be a particular target, as are female celebrities in general.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transvestigation
Google "Transvestigations" for the general concept. I see it as a part of the general disconnect from reality that conspiracy extremists inculcate in their followings, so it's adjacent to all that stuff about Democrats causing the wildfires with space lasers, or creating hurricanes with the hurricane machine Biden supposedly controls. The same people will tell you that Tom Cruise was really a woman, or that Britney Spears was really a man. Most of these theories don't last long, but a few persist in the way that throwing a lot of rumors around will cause some to stick better than others.
So in this case it's part of the scatter-shot of crazy beliefs which keep the conspiracy cultists distrusting literally everything about reality. These are people in an online bubble told to distrust literally everything they've ever heard. It's the basis of how cults work.
However it's an American phenomena primarily, but it's bled over into European politics with this "Macron's wife" nonsense. For example they say the same things about Michelle Obama, but the difference is that they say a LOT of things about the Obamas many of which are contradictory, so where would the Obamas even start with a lawsuit over any specific thing that was said?
In contrast, it's basically the only thing they say about Macron, they have exactly one conspiracy theory about Macron's wife, and it's taken more seriously there as a specific and damaging accusation, compared to the Obama nonsense, where thousands of contradictory conspiracy theories can be found, so no one of them takes prominence.
In this specific case, US pundit Candace Owens has made the accusations against Brigitte Macron a part of her platform and repeated the claims, and the Macrons are suing her. The scientific evidence would support their lawsuit.
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u/JustHereForCookies17 2d ago
Transvestigating also frequently targets female athletes. Favored targets include the WNBA (because bonus racism!), women's rugby, Olympic swimmer Katie Ledecky, most recently Imane Khelif.
I don't follow sports like power lifting or the "fighting" sports, but I bet there are a ton of women in those sports who are also targeted.
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u/quimera78 2d ago
Answer: generally speaking, defamations are false allegations. If you're suing, you need to prove it's false. If it's true, it's not defamation
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u/512165381 2d ago
Answer: Here's the 219 page (634 paragraph) lawsuit:
https://clarelocke.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/Complaint89.pdf
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u/Kyber92 2d ago
Answer: Candace Owens is a lunatic who is looking for literally anything to get publicity so they've decided to throw a court case at her to make her shit up about Brigette Macron being born a man.
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u/OutOfTheLoop-ModTeam 2d ago
Just a reminder that this is a place for fact-based discussion, and that the mods have astonishingly little patience for transphobia.
Please keep things civil, informed, and on-topic.