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France's First Lady Loses Transgender Lawsuit

https://www.lepoint.fr/politique/rumeurs-transphobes-la-justice-annule-une-procedure-intentee-par-brigitte-macron-08-03-2023-2511357_20.php
https://lemediaen442.fr/brigitte-macron-perd-son-proces-contre-deux-femmes-qui-laccusaient-detre-transgenre/
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/family/relationships/macron-affair-french-presidential-candidates-parents-discovered/

Brigitte Macron, the First Lady of France, filed a complaint last year
against two women who uploaded a YouTube video titled "Brigitte Macron
is a man." The video alleged that Brigitte had a gender reassignment
at 18.

On Wednesday, the French newspaper Le Point reported that Brigitte's
complaint against the two women was "voided" by a Paris Judge.

    In its decision, consulted by AFP, the court declared void the
summons issued by Brigitte Macron for invasion of privacy and image
rights, considering that the facts she denounced should have been
qualified of public defamation.

    Brigitte Macron, her brother, and the three children of the First
Lady had assigned two women on February 15, 2022, one presenting
herself as a "medium," the other as an "independent journalist."

    They asked the court to condemn these two women to pay them
damages for having broadcast on the YouTube channel of the "medium",
on December 10, 2021, "a perfectly eccentric thesis" according to
which Brigitte Macron, born Trogneux, does not would never have
existed, but that his brother would have taken on this identity after
changing sex.

"It is hard to imagine that the First Lady of France, accompanied by
the best lawyers, erred in qualifying her complaint as defamation
rather than an invasion of privacy. Unless she tries to drop the case
as soon as possible and not go any further," French media outlet Le
Média en 4-4-2 wrote.

Brigitte's transgender rumor appeared around France's 2022
presidential elections. Despite the video receiving hundreds of
thousands of views and trending on Twitter for days, Emmanuel still
pulled off a victory. A more serious accusation is the affair Brigitte
had with Emmanuel when she was 39yo, and he was 15yo schoolboy...