The husband of Moira Smith, who died in 9/11, has returned the Glamour Woman of the Year award she was given posthumously after the publication's decision to name Caitlyn Jenner one of the Women of the Year in 2015.
Smith was given the award in 2001 after dying while helping evacuate people out of Tower Two. Her husband, James Smith, has now shipped it back to Glamour with a letter to the magazine, calling giving Jenner the same award a “slap in the face.”
“I was shocked and saddened to learn that Glamour has just named Bruce Jenner ‘Woman of the Year,’” he wrote. “I find it insulting to Moira Smith's memory, and the memory of other heroic women who have earned this award. Was there no woman in America, or the rest of the world, more deserving than this man?” MailOnline reports.
“At a time when we have women in the armed forces fighting and dying for our country, heroic doctors fighting deadly diseases, women police officers and firefighters putting their lives on the line for total strangers, brave women overcoming life threatening diseases...the list of possibilities goes on...is this the best you could do?” he continued.
As we previously reported, Glamour’s Editor-in-Chief Cindi Leive defended their decision to name Jenner one of their Women of the Year after backlash ensued, saying she was just one of many to get the honor and wasn’t named THE Woman of the Year.
Leive said it “certainly gives you an appreciation for the hostility to the trans community that still exists out there.”