00:00Brigitte Macron is not backing down in her legal battle against two women who have claimed the French First Lady was born a man.
00:08Last week, a Paris appeals court overturned earlier convictions that found the two women guilty of spreading false claims.
00:16The court ruled that they had acted in good faith and quashed a previous order for them to pay damages.
00:22Macron's lawyer said on Monday that she would now take the case to the highest court of appeals.
00:27Macron, seen here during a recent visit to the United Kingdom, filed a libel case against the pair over a 2021 YouTube video
00:35where they claimed that she used to be a man named Jean-Michel Tourneur.
00:40Tourneur is actually Macron's brother.
00:43The video of spiritualist Amandine Roy and independent journalist Natasha Ray discussing gender transition surgery
00:51and personal details of Tourneur went viral, prompting Macron to sue for defamation and invasion of privacy.
01:0072-year-old Macron has been the target of several conspiracy theories,
01:04often centred around the 24-year age gap between her and her husband, Emmanuel Macron.
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