In a Paris courtroom this week, Tiphaine Auzière, daughter of French First Lady Brigitte Macron, testified that persistent online claims about her mother's gender have gone beyond social media — reaching the schoolyard and affecting the family's youngest members.
Ten individuals are standing trial in Paris, accused of cyber-harassing Mrs Macron by spreading baseless rumours that she was born male and linking her 24-year age gap with President Emmanuel Macron to 'paedophilia'.
