Freedom74 was a contributor to forums on inthemix.com.au
She was living in Sydney and is transgender. She was born at Brisbane in 1974 as the first son of now-retired Adelaide material handling businessman David W and has brother Darran. She was raised in the suburb of Kingston. She attended high school at St Thomas More College, Sunnybank.
Subsequently the family moved to Rockhampton in the Capricorn region of Queensland to take up a lucrative promotion in her father's then career.
She encountered rejection by her family following coming-out. She faced considerable difficulty with obtaining and maintaining employment and alternatively worked as a sexworker and used opioids.
She otherwise self represented when facing various court cases over her lifetime and remarkably for her background, achieved acquittals.
She has appeared for herself and alongside others at NCAT and it's forerunners and achieved a number of case wins for herself and others.