Later speaking to a British newspaper, Brigitte Macron’s youngest daughter Tiphaine Auzière said: “It’s on the same level as people who say the earth is flat or that we are governed by reptiles”. Auzière is just six years younger than her step-father Macron, who entered into a relationship with her mother Brigitte when he was a teenager and she was his school teacher.

Last week, Macron denounced the conspiracy theory of Brigitte Macron being born a man and having transitioned in her thirties as “false and fabricated”. Broadcaster BFMTV states the President said he found the comments “frustrating” and that they had hurt his feelings. Macron said he had decided not to let them pass without an “indignant” response so they were challenged in the public sphere.

Indeed, two Youtubers who stated the claims on a stream were convicted in a French court of libel and handed fines in 2023.