Candace Owens

In March 2024, Owens endorsed the conspiracy theory that [[Brigitte Macron]], wife of [[French president]] [[Emmanuel Macron]], was secretly transgender. Owens stated: "After looking into this, I would stake my entire professional reputation on the fact that Brigitte Macron is in fact a man. Any journalist or publication that is trying to dismiss this plausibility is immediately identifiable as establishment. (...) The implications here are terrifying."{{cite web |last=Rascouët-Paz |first=Anna |date=March 18, 2024 |title=No, France's First Lady Brigitte Macron Isn't a Trans Woman |url=https://www.snopes.com/news/2024/03/18/brigitte-macron-transgender-rumors/ |access-date=March 23, 2024 |website=[[Snopes]] |archive-date=March 23, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240323193843/https://www.snopes.com/news/2024/03/18/brigitte-macron-transgender-rumors/ |url-status=live}} In 2025, Owens released a multi-part video miniseries titled ''Becoming Brigitte'', which promoted the conspiracy theory.{{cite web |last=Smith |first=Ian |date=February 4, 2025 |title=Why are false rumours about Brigitte Macron being transgender resurfacing? |url=https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2025/02/04/why-are-false-rumours-about-brigitte-macron-being-transgender-resurfacing |access-date=February 5, 2024 |website=[[Euronews]]}} She also promoted the book by investigative journalist Xavier Poussard, ''Devenir Brigitte'' (''Becoming Brigitte'' in its English publication), which became a bestseller on [[Amazon (company)|Amazon]].{{cite news |last1=Swain |first1=Marianka |title=The absurd Brigitte Macron conspiracy theory sweeping America |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/03/19/brigitte-macron-candace-owens-tucker-carlson-transgender/ |access-date=March 20, 2025 |work=[[The Daily Telegraph]] |date=March 19, 2025}}{{cite news |last1=Serrière |first1=Adrien |title='Devenir Brigitte' : le livre complotiste à succès qui cache une opération de déstabilisation |trans-title='Becoming Brigitte': the successful conspiracy book that hides a destabilization operation |url=https://www.radiofrance.fr/franceinter/podcasts/l-info-de-france-inter/l-info-de-france-inter-1140309 |access-date=March 9, 2025 |publisher=[[Radio France]] |date=March 6, 2025 |language=French}} Owens further claimed that Brigitte Macron, under a male identity, had been a study participant in the [[Stanford prison experiment]] as part of an alleged [[CIA]] [[Brainwashing|mind-control]] program.{{Cite web |last=Sommer|first=Will|date=August 25, 2025 |title=Candace Owens to Trump: Save Me from the Macrons|url=https://www.thebulwark.com/p/candace-owens-to-trump-save-me-from-the-macrons |access-date=December 5, 2025 |website=The Bulwark}}

In March 2024, Owens endorsed the conspiracy theory that [[Brigitte Macron]], wife of [[French president]] [[Emmanuel Macron]], was secretly transgender. Owens stated: "After looking into this, I would stake my entire professional reputation on the fact that Brigitte Macron is in fact a man. Any journalist or publication that is trying to dismiss this plausibility is immediately identifiable as establishment. (...) The implications here are terrifying."{{cite web |last=Rascouët-Paz |first=Anna |date=March 18, 2024 |title=No, France's First Lady Brigitte Macron Isn't a Trans Woman |url=https://www.snopes.com/news/2024/03/18/brigitte-macron-transgender-rumors/ |access-date=March 23, 2024 |website=[[Snopes]] |archive-date=March 23, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240323193843/https://www.snopes.com/news/2024/03/18/brigitte-macron-transgender-rumors/ |url-status=live}} In 2025, Owens released a multi-part video miniseries titled ''Becoming Brigitte'', which promoted the conspiracy theory.{{cite web |last=Smith |first=Ian |date=February 4, 2025 |title=Why are false rumours about Brigitte Macron being transgender resurfacing? |url=https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2025/02/04/why-are-false-rumours-about-brigitte-macron-being-transgender-resurfacing |access-date=February 5, 2024 |website=[[Euronews]]}} She also promoted the book by investigative journalist Xavier Poussard, ''Devenir Brigitte'' (''Becoming Brigitte'' in its English publication), which became a bestseller on [[Amazon (company)|Amazon]].{{cite news |last1=Swain |first1=Marianka |title=The absurd Brigitte Macron conspiracy theory sweeping America |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/03/19/brigitte-macron-candace-owens-tucker-carlson-transgender/ |access-date=March 20, 2025 |work=[[The Daily Telegraph]] |date=March 19, 2025}}{{cite news |last1=Serrière |first1=Adrien |title='Devenir Brigitte' : le livre complotiste à succès qui cache une opération de déstabilisation |trans-title='Becoming Brigitte': the successful conspiracy book that hides a destabilization operation |url=https://www.radiofrance.fr/franceinter/podcasts/l-info-de-france-inter/l-info-de-france-inter-1140309 |access-date=March 9, 2025 |publisher=[[Radio France]] |date=March 6, 2025 |language=French}} Owens further claimed that Brigitte Macron, under a male identity, had been a study participant in the [[Stanford prison experiment]] as part of an alleged [[CIA]] [[Brainwashing|mind-control]] program.{{Cite web |last=Sommer|first=Will|date=August 25, 2025 |title=Candace Owens to Trump: Save Me from the Macrons|url=https://www.thebulwark.com/p/candace-owens-to-trump-save-me-from-the-macrons |access-date=December 5, 2025 |website=The Bulwark}}

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