The husband of Moira Smith, one of the heroes in the 9/11 incident, sent her posthumous Glamour Magazine’s 2001 Woman of the Year award back through FedEx. James Smith returned his wife’s award as a protest against Glamour Magazine after giving the same award to Caitlyn Jenner who is famously known as a reality TV star and a former Olympic gold medalist named Bruce.

The “I Am Cait” star received the Glamour Woman of the Year award in October and immediately got protests from people, including James Smith. James’ wife Moira, 38, was an NYPD officer who died while saving people from the Twin Towers of the World Trade Centre on Sept. 11, 2001. She was the only woman among the 23 heroic New York Police officers.

BuzzFeed News reports that James wrote an open letter on his Facebook wall to Cindi Leive, the editor-in-chief of Glamour Magazine. He said that he was “shocked and saddened” after finding out that Cait will be receiving the same award as Moira’s. He also found it insulting to Moira and other heroic women’s memory.

“Was there no woman in America, or the rest of the world, more deserving than this man?” Smith wrote on his Facebook account.

“At a time when we have women in the armed forces fighting and dying for our country, heroic doctors fighting deadly diseases, women police 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?” the NYPD officer added.

Smith has deleted the Facebook post as of this writing. But he told BuzzFeed that he wrote the open letter because he felt that Jenner “trivialized the transgender experience” by saying that the most difficult thing about being a woman was choosing what clothes to wear. As an NYPD officer who has helped transgender youth, Smith thinks that Jenner has not earned the right to call himself a woman because of that.

A spokesperson from Glamour told New York Post that they honour Smith’s letter and keep their stand by giving the award to Jenner.

“Glamour’s Women of the Year Awards recognize women with a variety of backgrounds and experiences,” the Glamour spokesperson said.

The 66-year-old transgender woman received the 2015 Glamour Woman of the Year award along with other awardees Reese Witherspoon, Misty Copeland, Victoria Beckham, Elizabeth Holmes, Cecile Richards, the victorious US women’s soccer team and a group of women from Charleston, South Carolina.

Caitlyn was referred to by the magazine as a “Trans Champion.”

“So thank you, Glamour magazine, for honoring me tonight. I never in a million years ever thought I would be here—and I bet you never thought I would either! But here I am, alive and well. Thank you very much,” Caitlyn said in her in her Glamour Women of the Year 2015 Award acceptance speech.

Apart from James Smith, Caitlyn also got bashed by a group of LGBT during her speech in Chicago on Thursday, according to the NY Daily News. The “I Ain’t Cait” protesters questioned the Chicago House for selecting Jenner as its keynote speaker. One of the protesters, while using a bullhorn, even said that Jenner is an insult to trans people and women.

Below are other reactions from Twitter regarding Caitlyn Jenner’s 2015 Glamour Magazine Woman of the Year award.

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