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Thread: Widower of 9/11 cop returns Glamour award over Caitlyn Jenner

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    Widower of 9/11 cop returns Glamour award over Caitlyn Jenner

    (CNN)The husband of a police officer who died on 9/11 has returned her Glamour "Woman of the Year" award because the magazine honored Caitlyn Jenner with the same award last week.

    Moira Smith was one of 23 New York City Police Department officers to die in the September 11, 2001, attacks and the only female NYPD officer to die that day. She was seen in the time before her death rescuing people from the World Trade Center towers.

    Glamour named her a "Woman of the Year" in 2001, shortly after her death. Her husband, James Smith, accepted on her behalf.

    Olympic gold medalist Bruce Jenner transitioned to Caitlyn Jenner over the past year in the spotlight of the"Keeping Up With the Kardashians" reality television show.

    It's not that Glamour honored a transgender person, James Smith told CNN. He supported Glamour's decision to honor actress Laverne Cox in 2014.

    As a New York City police officer, "my precinct covered a shelter for transgendered youth," Smith said via email. "On several occasions I responded there to take reports or give aid to suicidal youths. I listened to their stories of physical, emotional and sexual abuse. Young people thrown out of their homes or fleeing from unlivable conditions.

    "They didn't have the luxury of being part of the Kardashian circus," Smith wrote. "They weren't living in a Malibu Barbie beach house surrounded by what passes for family in Hollywood. They were truly brave people fighting hourly for existence.

    "When Mr. Jenner said the hardest part about being a woman was figuring out what to wear (in a recent BuzzFeed interview), he proved to me that he is not truly a woman. I believe this comment and others he has made trivializes the transgender experience as I have witnessed it...

    http://www.cnn.com/2015/11/16/living...n-jenner-feat/

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    Looks like Bruce Gender continues to bring division to the nation.

    He really needs to get his act together and dressing like a girl isn't helping matters much either!

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