Husband Of Glamour Award Recipient Returns Award After Caitlyn Jenner Honored

Caitlyn
Jenner’s recent Glamour Woman
of the Year honor was not well received by
all.

In particular, James
Smith, who lost his wife, Moira Smith,
during 9/11, returned his late wife’s 2001 Glamour honor due to the magazine
honoring the transgender star.

“On October 29th, 2001 I was honored to accept
the Glamour Magazine ‘Woman of
the Year Award’ posthumously
given to my wife, Police Officer Moira Smith. Moira was killed on September
11th, 2001 while rescuing thousands from the World Trade Center. EMT Yamel
Merino was also posthumously honored that evening for her heroism,” he
wrote in a Facebook post addressed to Glamour editor Cindi Leivem that has
since been made private.

Smith took
issue with the magazine honoring the
66-year-old Olympian this year.

“I was shocked and saddened to learn that Glamour has
just named Bruce Jenner ‘Woman of the Year’. 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? 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 in the post.

READ: Caitlyn Jenner, Reese Witherspoon Honored By Glamour

Adding, “I can only guess that this was a publicity
stunt meant to resuscitate a dying medium. After discussing this slap in
the face to the memory of our Hero with my family, I have decided to return
Moira’s award to Glamour Magazine.”

— Jesse Spero