"A Paris court has found 10 people guilty of cyberbullying Brigitte Macron, wife of President of France Emmanuel Macron, the BBC reports. The judge found that the defendants made false claims about Macron's gender and sexuality, and "malicious remarks" about the 24-year age gap between Macron and her spouse. The defendants, eight men and two women, received a range of sentences, including jail time up to eight months and mandatory online harassment awareness training."
"Key to the lawsuit is the fringe belief that Brigitte Macron was born a man - proponents for some reason believe Macron is Jean-Michel Trogneux, her older brother - and transitioned to living as a woman at some point later in life. This style of "transvestigation" is an unfortunately common type of online conspiracy theory, a roundabout way to both spread hateful rhetoric about transgender people and bully cisgender people at the same time."
A Paris court found 10 people guilty of cyberbullying Brigitte Macron for spreading false claims about her gender, sexuality and making malicious remarks about the 24-year age gap with Emmanuel Macron. Sentences included up to eight months' jail, mandatory online harassment awareness training, and temporary loss of access to X accounts for five defendants. The conspiratorial claim alleges Brigitte Macron was born a man and is actually Jean-Michel Trogneux, a form of "transvestigation" that spreads transphobic rhetoric while targeting cisgender people. Brigitte Macron is 72 and married Emmanuel Macron in 2007. Emmanuel Macron filed a US defamation suit against Candace Owens over similar false claims.
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