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To feel really sorry for Brigitte Macron.

31 replies

olderandnonthewiser · 28/10/2025 18:25

I mean what business is of anyone’s if she really is a man? (I don’t believe she is). What kind of wickedness is this?

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JHound · 28/10/2025 18:33

Gannety · 28/10/2025 18:30

YANBU. She is being victimised by pure right-wing, conspiracy-theorist insanity and transgender panic. Candace Owens has stoked the fire and now Macron is having to undergo invasive testing and disclose personal information which should never have been in the public domain.

I don't particularly like Brigitte Macron because I think her relationship with her husband in his youth was predatory but on this issue she is absolutely the victim.

This.

It’s really weird for them to attack her and by extension Macron’s “masculinity” by pushing this myth.

They can simply attack the fact she is s groomer. It shows how the rabid right thinks: they think her being born male is worse than grooming a child!!

LivingDeadGirlUK · 28/10/2025 18:33

JHound · 28/10/2025 18:28

It seems to be a typical right-wing trope of attacking powerful left/liberal(ish) men they dislike: by insisting their wives are really men.

They do the same with Obama. The weird thing is there is something genuine to criticise Brigitte for: the fact she started seeing him when he was 15/16 and she was his teacher!

Yes this is true there was loads of this tosh around about Michelle, I'm really confused how this has become such a thing though, some right wing nutjob throwing allegations about, why hasn't it just been shut down straight away?

tsmainsqueeze · 28/10/2025 18:31

I voted yanbu as i hate the way the media is relentless about people in the public eye, i also think she is a woman .
But i cannot get my head around the way she 'pursued' a school boy so for that reason i do not like or respect her.

Hoppinggreen · 28/10/2025 18:30

I don't think she is a man but she basically groomed Macron so I have no sympathy for her

Gannety · 28/10/2025 18:30

YANBU. She is being victimised by pure right-wing, conspiracy-theorist insanity and transgender panic. Candace Owens has stoked the fire and now Macron is having to undergo invasive testing and disclose personal information which should never have been in the public domain.

I don't particularly like Brigitte Macron because I think her relationship with her husband in his youth was predatory but on this issue she is absolutely the victim.

JHound · 28/10/2025 18:28

It seems to be a typical right-wing trope of attacking powerful left/liberal(ish) men they dislike: by insisting their wives are really men.

They do the same with Obama. The weird thing is there is something genuine to criticise Brigitte for: the fact she started seeing him when he was 15/16 and she was his teacher!

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