Tyra Hunter
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'''Tyra Hunter''' (circa 1970 - [[August 7]], [[1995]]) was a 24 year old [[transsexual]] woman who died after being injured as a passenger in a [[car accident]]. [[Emergency medical technician|Emergency medical technicians]] at the scene of the accident uttered derogatory epithets and withdrew medical care after discovering her birth sex, and [[Emergency room|ER]] staff at [[DC General Hospital]] subsequently provided dilatory and inadequate care.
On [[December 11]], [[1998]] a [[jury]] awarded Tyra's mother, Margie Hunter, $2,873,000 after finding the [[District of Columbia]] guilty of negligence and malpractice. While $500,000 of the amount was awarded for damages attributable to the withdrawal of medical care at the accident scene, a further $1,500,000 was for conscious pain and suffering endured by Tyra in the emergency room as the result of medical malpractice. [[Dana Priesing]], an observer at the [[wrongful death]] [[trial (law)|trial]], wrote that the evidence supported "the inference that a stereotype (namely that Tyra was an anonymous, drug using, [[transgendered|TG]] street person) affected the treatment Tyra received," and that the "ER staff, as evidenced by their actions, did not consider her life worth saving."
T.Y.R.A. (Transgender Youth Resources and Advocacy), a program of the Illinois Gender Advocates and Howard Brown Health Centers, is a [[Chicago]] area transgendered youth initiative named in the memory of Tyra Hunter.
==See also==
* [[Brandon Teena]], [[Gwen Araujo]], other victims of [[transphobia]]
* [[List of transgender-related topics]]
==References==
* [http://www.gpac.org/archive/news/notitle.html?cmd=view&archive=news&msgnum=0050 Analysis: Tyra Hunter Wrongful Death Trial]
* [http://www.glaa.org/archive/1998/margiehunter1211.shtml Victory in Tyra Hunter case]
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[[Category:1995 deaths]]
[[Category:LGBT people from the United States]]
[[Category:Transgender and transsexual people]]
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