Caitlyn Jenner is a woman.

This is, as Robin Scherbatsky from “How I Met Your Mother” would say, a truth fact.

Caitlyn (nee Bruce) Jenner was born with male genitalia that did not agree with who she knew she was, and has since transitioned into life as a woman.

It sounds simple, but oh, the hell this has raised.

It is understandably quite difficult to estimate the number of transgender people in America because the U.S. Census does not ask participants their gender identity, nor do many other official documents. Also, many people have ambigious gender representation or presentation and do not fit squarely into a box.

Delving even further into the issue, what makes a transgender person transgender? Is it someone who does not consider themselves comfortable with their given sex but identifies with the other transgender people, or must one begin their transition to “earn” the title?

I ask this not because I know the answer and am planning on revealing it to the greater public in a grand gesture of showing superior knowledge but because I have no idea and I don’t think there is some single, all-inclusive answer.

I do know, however, that saying that “Glamour couldn’t find an actual woman” in reference to Jenner being named one of Glamour magazine’s Women of the Year was one of the most flat out disrespectful things I’ve ever read.

It implies that Jenner is not a real woman, with the childish logic that has been repeated over and over again that basically amounts to “She is not a woman because I say so.”

This, along with the instances of incorrect pronouns led me to believe that, as odd as it is to write something directly and vehemently disagreeing with someone who is my colleague, I had to share the other side of this and show that what columnist Ben Moran wrote was wrong.

While he was well within his rights to say it, and this column is not here to say he shouldn’t have said it, I unequivocally disagree with his statement that someone who was biologically male does not deserve to be seen as a woman.

One person does not get to definitively decide what makes a woman a woman or a man a man. As difficult as it can be to realize that what you believe about a certain topic is irrelevant, your opinion about what someone’s gender is couldn’t matter less.

The world is changing. I’m not here to push my own beliefs on you, but I’m afraid that sooner or later we’re going to have to change with it, at least a little, or risk becoming relics of an outdated time.

As for the Noah Galloway being a runner-up for the Arthur Ashe Courage Award at the 2015 ESPYs, as deserving a candidate as he is, he was never even officially considered. While I feel that this situation was mishandled, most people didn’t even know about the ESPY Awards and suddenly, at the mere notion of a transgender woman receiving some sort of accolade, rushed to their keyboards to protest that she didn’t deserve it.

And as for Jenner is more deserving to be Man of the Year is absurd because she isn’t a man. To say that she became a woman is to imply that she woke up one morning and thought to herself, “You know what would be cool? If I decided to completely reject who I was before, transition and upset a lot of people in the process, just for the hell of it.”

No, she didn’t ask to be called Caitlyn on Jan. 1 to publicly live as a woman for a full year, but her transition had started long before the media caught on. She officially transitioned in March, and using the logic demonstrated in the column, March is not halfway through the year. She has been, officially, a woman for more months out of this year than not, and therefore it makes no sense for her to get the Man of the Year award.

Her work, as Caitlyn, with transgender youth has been monumental, so to say she hasn’t done enough to deserve it holds no truth. She acts as a figurehead for transgender youth to look up to, of which there are a scant few in the mainstream media. Jenner goes to hospitals, LGBT youth centers and acts as an advocate for those who are unable to advocate for themselves.

I am sick of people saying that the work she does is unimportant. I’m sick of it because it’s not generally transgender people saying this, and yes, if she’s not advocating for you then maybe it doesn’t feel like she’s helping. But she’s out there and helping a marginalized and underrepresented group of people. She’s important, and prejudices against who she is and how she presents herself don’t change that.

Do I believe Jenner deserves the Woman of the Year award? As was pointed out in Moran’s article, there are many, many women deserving of the title, and Jenner is unquestionably one of them.