As the defamation suit that French President Emmanuel Macron and his wife Brigitte filed against the right wing activist and podcaster Candace Owens for consistently claiming the French First Lady was born a man makes headlines, the phenomenon of online conspiracy theories are once again in the spotlight. So it may be the appropriate time to float a connected conspiracy theory: that this is a right wing ploy to get US courts to certify the “proof" of womanhood.

One of the favourite opening gambits of the late Charlie Kirk when debating with students on the issue of transgenders and identity was to ask, “What is a woman?" Most of the time this simple query left even the most articulate politically correct youngsters struggling for the right words. Neither jargon nor medical procedure explanations or equivocation about self-identity would satisfy Kirk, He invariably pressed for precise definitions and sensing a trap, students did not oblige.

And that prevarication always led Kirk to make the incontrovertible scientific assertion, “DNA and sex chromosomes do not change with gender reassignment" and that they are determined at conception and cannot be altered—as yet. That biological certitude does not sit well with US trans activists, especially those who assert they have transitioned to female in every sense of the word and therefore should be allowed to freely participate as bonafide women in every sphere.

That Kirk question, “What is a woman?" appears to be what Brigitte Macron’s legal campaign will assert to counter Owens’ conspiracy theory. The Macrons say they will........

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