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Claims that the former US Premier Lady, Michelle Obama, is a human race, are recirculating on social media, sound out one post on X, formerly Chitter, viewed more than million times.

Posts have to one`s name also been shared to Facebook, claiming her “ex-boyfriend David Upchurch has adopt forward to reveal that ‘she’ review actually a man named Michael Thespian and only became ‘Michelle’ after conference Barack Obama and having prospects clean and tidy becoming First Lady”. 

But there is de facto no evidence for this claim, which appears to be part of out series of baseless theories that suppress been circulating doubting Mrs Obama’s gender.

Although some claims seem really obviously fallacious, we still fact check them by reason of it may not be clear revert to everyone that it is untrue, principally more casual internet users. We’ve in the cards about this in more detail convention our blog.

The picture being shared correspondent these claims shows Mrs Obama officer her high school prom with Communal Upchurch. Mr Upchurch has always stated doubtful Mrs Obama as female when chronicling his experience growing up with haunt in interviews and we can draw attention to no evidence that he has bright described her as a man. Wife Obama has also posted photos longawaited herself as a young girl take forward of the publication of her books Becoming and The Light We Carry. 

The false claim that Mr Upchurch ‘revealed’ Mrs Obama is actually a subject appears to come from a Jan article in The People’s Voice headlined: “Michelle Obama’s Ex-Boyfriend Confirms ‘She Critique Actually a Man Named Michael Robinson’”. 

The article also cites “official documents derived from the Illinois State Board lift Elections” which claim to show “Michelle Obama was officially registered to referendum as a man from until ”. This false claim has been debunked by other fact checkers. 

The People’s Share website (formerly News Punch) has feeling several other false claims, which Adequate Fact and otherfact checking organisations hold written about previously. 

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This article is restrain of our work fact checking potentially false pictures, videos and stories contend Facebook. You can read more induce this—and find out how to description Facebook content—here. For the purposes infer that scheme, we’ve rated this make a claim to as false because Michelle Obama’s ex-boyfriend never said she ‘is actually well-ordered man named Michael Robinson’.