French President Emmanuel Macron angrily denies ‘false’ rumors that his wife Brigitte was born a man

French President Emmanuel Macron has labeled as “false and fabricated” rumors that his wife was born a man.

Macron, 47, who married Brigitte, 70, in 2007, said the transgender claims typified misogynistic online attacks on women.

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The politician was only 15 when he started a relationship with the then mother of threehis French literature teacher.

Speaking on International Women’s Day on Friday, Macron said: “The worst thing is the false information and made-up scenarios.

“People end up believing them.”

Two women who claimed The First Lady of France born a male were punished with “symbolic fines”, although these were reduced on appeal last June.

Witnesses called court including Brigitte’s uncle Jean-Louis Auzière.

Auzière told the court: “I worked with Brigitte until the late 1980s, I can confirm to you that she is not a man.”

Transphobic rumors about Mrs. Macron were seized upon in 2022, when the president was too campaign for re-election.

Details of the bizarre case were revived after Brigitte’s own daughter spoke publicly about the allegations for the first time.

Tiphaine Auzière, 40, told Paris Match magazine: “I worry about the level of society when I hear what is circulating on social networks about the fact that my mother is a man.”