The daughter of Brigitte Macron told a French court on Tuesday that unsubstantiated claims about her mother’s gender had adversely affected the French first lady’s health.

Tiphaine Auziere, 41, spoke on the second day of the trial in Paris of 10 people accused of cyberbullying the 72-year-old first lady by amplifying rumours that she was assigned male at birth.

If convicted, they face up to two years in prison.

“She’s constantly having to pay attention to what she wears, how she holds herself because she knows that her image can be distorted,” Auziere said.

The recycled disinformation had led to a “deterioration” in her mother’s health, she added.

The trial comes after President Emmanuel Macron and his wife filed a defamation lawsuit in the United States at the end of July, in connect

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