Tyra Hunter

Tyra Hunter (1970 - August 7, 1995) was an African-American transsexual woman who died after being injured as a passenger in a car accident and was refused medical care. Emergency medical technicians at the scene of the accident uttered derogatory epithets and withdrew medical care after discovering her birth sex, and ER staff at DC General Hospital subsequently provided dilatory and inadequate care. On December 11, 1998 a jury awarded Hunter's m... more

Date of birth:

  • 1970

Date of death:

  • Aug 7, 1995 (age 25 years)
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