Conspiracy theorists ordered to pay $15,000 for claiming Brigitte Macron is a man

[EllsworthToohey]

Originally published at: Conspiracy theorists ordered to pay $15,000 for claiming Brigitte Macron is a man - Boing Boing

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[spetrovits]

Doubtless both of them have repeatedly stated that they “can always tell”, as is the case with most transphobes. If only the price for their mistake was higher.

[angusm]

These people are fucking obsessed. I swear to God, even trans people don’t spend as much time thinking about trans people as they do.

[mnem]

@spetrovits

If only the price for their mistake was higher.

I’d say calling a “mistake” is far too generous. More like intentionally malicious misinformation. These high profile “transvestigators” know exactly what grift they’re propagating.

[Mister44]

The women said Brigitte Macron was actually her brother, Jean-Michel Trogneux,

So, is her brother still alive? If so, that would be a slam dunk case!

[anothernewbbaccount]

@Mister44

is her brother still alive?

The courts are not in the habit of awarding damages to dead people.

A Paris court sentenced Amandine Roy and Natacha Rey on Thursday to pay a total of €8,000 (£6,750) in damages to the president’s wife, and €5,000 to her brother Jean-Michel Trogneux.

Brigitte Macron awarded €8,000 in damages over false trans claims

[Shuck]

The layers of idiocy here… Were they claiming that her three children and ex-husband also didn’t exist? All the evidence about her career as a school-teacher, before she supposedly transitioned, were all fabrications, and everyone who knew her then were lying about their experiences, despite all the scrutiny that whole thing received?

@EllsworthToohey

“So if the state actually cared about stomping out people that were aiding and abetting pedophilia, aiding and abetting crimes against minors, then you would not have Emmanuel Macron… in office”

So this is what it’s about - Brigitte must be “a man,” so that her relationship with Emmanuel is abuse (because it couldn’t be otherwise, somehow) and therefore, as a “victim of pedophilia”… he should not be allowed in office? This manages to be both horrible and incredibly stupid.

@Mister44

So, is her brother still alive?

Yep - part of the damages are going to him.

@Mister44

If so, that would be a slam dunk case!

Ah, but these people “do their research” entirely on the internet. And on the internet, there’s no (current) pictures of the brother… so he must not exist! That, or he’s just a private citizen of a certain age and thus hasn’t plastered his image across social media, and the press has no reason to take pictures of him…

[Mister44]

@Shuck

Yep - part of the damages are going to him.

They need to get that TikTok guy to grab both of them and put them side by side.

[p96]

[nubwaxer]

“They’re eating the dogs” We need more prosecitions like the one in this story. We can’t have a country half fact based and half alt-reality Bizarro World MAGA nation.