A court has ordered two women to pay €8,000 in damages to French First Lady Brigitte Macron, after they made false claims that she was transgender. Macron filed a libel complaint against two women who posted footage alleging that she'd once been a man named 'Jean-Michel'. FRANCE24's Sharon Gaffney speaks to Flora Bolter, Co-director of the LGBTI+ Observatory at the Fondation Jean Jaures about Brigitte Macron's legal response.
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