Does using a strapon count as topping?

So the other day I was with at dinner with my friends and the topic of sex came up. They love talking about sex, but I’m in a long-term monogamous relationship so I usually don’t go into too much detail. They know that I’m almost always bottom and my partner is almost always top. However I let it slip that when I do fuck him it’s with a strapon. My dick is small and I have a hard time keeping it up, so I need to use a strapon when my man wants me to fuck him.

So after oohing and ahhing for getting the rare sexual detail out of me, they proceeded to argue if using a strap counts as topping. One of my friends (an exclusively top trans woman) insisted that I wasn’t topping but rather pegging. She said I need to use my real cock to be a real top. Otherwise using a strap means I’m just pegging my man.