The baseless conspiracy theories about Brigitte Macron's gender have taken a negative toll on the French first lady.

The claim was posted by an account called The General (@GeneralMCNews) who said: “BREAKING: French President Emmanuel Macron’s wife, Brigitte Macron discovered that her tax account on France’s official government website listed her as a male under the name “Jean-Michel.” This post went viral with more than 8 million views as of Monday.

The false claims spread online allege that Mrs Macron was born under the name Jean-Michel Trogneux, the actual name of her older brother. The Macrons have for years been dogged by conspiracy theories that she was born Jean-Michel Trogneux, before taking the name Brigitte as a transgender woman.

A daughter of French first lady Brigitte Macron testified Tuesday in the second and final day of a cyberbullying trial in which 10 defendants face prison terms of up to two years for propagating false claims online, including the conspiracy theory that she was born a man.

BRIGITTE Macron reads every word of trolls’ online abuse claiming she was born male, her daughter told a French court today. Tiphaine Auzière took to the stand as ten people went on trial