Rumors that Michelle Obama is a man began to spread when her husband, Barack Obama, slipped and called her “Michael” during a televised speech while he was the U.S. president.
Barack accidentally referred to his wife as “Michael” several more times – all caught on tape.
The late comedienne Joan Rivers fueled the rumors by insisting that Michelle was a “transgender” just weeks before she died tragically during a medical procedure.
Michelle Obama to take the stage tonight.
Never forget Joan Rivers’s comments a month before her tragic death.
— Juanita Broaddrick (@atensnut) August 20, 2024
Then recently, billionaire Elon Musk’s father, Errol, fanned the flames by claiming Barack Obama “is a queer who is married to a man.”
“We realized Obama is a queer who is married to a man who dresses as a woman. We all learned that. It’s not common knowledge,” Errol said during an interview with Joshua Rubin on ‘Wide Awake Podcast’.
“Michelle Obama is a man?” the host asked him.
Errol replied, “Of course, you don’t know that?”
He then said Joan Rivers was assassinated for confirming Michelle’s true gender.
“Joan Rivers mentioned it publicly and she was dead two weeks later by the way. They axed her, yeah. So that’s common knowledge. You can look it up anywhere,” Errol said.
To put the false rumors to bed, Internet detectives at Snopes.com conducted a thorough investigation, including facts, interviews with close friends and family members, and access to Michelle’s medical records.
Their conclusion: the former first lady is indeed a biological woman.
Barack and Michelle share two daughters, Sasha and Malia, who look just like them.
According to one source that Snopes spoke with, misgendering Mrs. Obama as a transgender reveals how conspiracy theorists really feel about transgender people in general.
“They are able to tie all of their feelings about trans women; all of their feelings about Michelle Obama; all of their feelings about white people […] being replaced in the world — they get to do all of that stuff in one place,” said Aria Halliday, an associate professor of gender and women’s studies at the University of Kentucky.
Halliday added that conspiracy theorists — both Caucasian and Black — are “dedicated to making sure that the ‘Michelle and Barack experience’ — that is, a Black presidency — never happens again.”
Read Snopes’ extensive report HERE.
