Emmanuel Macron and his wife, Brigitte, are planning to present photographic and scientific evidence to a US court to prove Mrs. Macron is a woman.
Their lawyer says the French president and Mrs. Macron will present the documentation in a defamation suit they have taken against the right-wing influencer Candace Owens after she promoted her belief that Brigitte Macron was born male.
Ms. Owens' lawyers have responded with a motion to dismiss the claim.
Speaking to the BBC's Fame Under Fire podcast, the Macrons' lawyer in the case, Tom Clare, said that Mrs. Macron had found the claims incredibly upsetting and they were a distraction to the French president.
I don't want to suggest that it somehow has thrown him off his game. But just like anybody who is juggling a career and a family life as well, when your family is under attack, it wears on you. And he's not immune from that because he's the president of a country, he said.
Mr. Clare said there would be expert testimony that will come out that will be scientific in nature and while he would not reveal, at this stage, its exact nature, he said the couple were prepared to demonstrate fully both generically and specifically that the allegations are false.
It is incredibly upsetting to think that you have to go and subject yourself, to put this type of proof forward, he said.
Mrs. Macron is willing to undergo this public scrutiny as part of her resolve to set the record straight. Clare further mentioned the existence of photographs of Brigitte during her pregnancies and raising their children, which will also be submitted in court.
The allegations began in obscure online chats and gained traction with a 2021 YouTube video by French bloggers. The Macrons have previously dealt with similar claims in courts in France, where they won a case, but it was later overturned on appeal.
In their current legal action against Ms. Owens in the US, they assert that she ignored credible evidence disproving her claims in favor of using known conspiracy theories.
