leiothrix_lutea | Genderswap - Backstory

Donna Troy was born Don Hinckley to a sick, teenage mother in New Jersey named Dorothy Hinckley. Don was given up for adoption before Dorothy died and was taken in by Carl and Fay Evans nee Stacy as their foster child; but while the placement was a perfect fit for all, Carl was unfortunately killed in a work-related accident and, being unable to afford the expense of raising a child on her own, Fay was forced to give Don up for adoption again. No one really knows how Don was placed into the hands of the last couple Don would live with in the World of Man, but it's clear from reports that Donna would later hear from people who knew them briefly prior to their deaths that they were not suited to being parents. Donna doesn't remember them well at all and most of what she knows about them later in life is what Batgirl is able to track down for her -- they were a poor couple, short-tempered, keeping Don out of school despite being old enough to at least be in kindergarten, keeping Don away from the other neighborhood kids, and squatting in the apartment that they would end up dying in.

That's the part that Donna remembered above anything else: There was a fire in the apartment building and she remembered being huddled on the floor with two bodies not far away that she (rightly) assumed were those of her dead parents. Then, all of a sudden, there was light and she looked over to see Wonder Woman standing in the window, beckoning to her. Wonder Woman had saved little Don and, in a moment of pity, decided to take the little boy back to Themyscira with her despite knowing the law about allowing men to set foot on the island.

Queen Hippolyta was, understandably, displeased with her daughter, who took advantage of the wording of the law, claiming that since Don was only a naive boy, he couldn't be held to the same expectations as a man who had been raised to look down on women. Hippolyta, moved enough by Don's story of loss, agreed to ask the Oracle's advice on whether or not the goddesses would allow the boy to be raised on Themyscira. The Oracle told Hippolyta that it would be allowed, but that the boy must become a true Amazon and the rest of their sisters must never know otherwise.

Thus, Don Hinckley became Donna Troy and was raised on Themyscira as an Amazon warrior and Queen Hippolyta's youngest daughter.

Donna retained no significant memory of the years before she'd come to the island (aside from the fire); she was happy with her new home and sisters and identity and, most of the time, it was like she'd always been there. She learned the ways of the Amazon, trained in both academics and athletics and was never given special treatment just because she was a princess. As she grew into a teenager, though, hearing stories from the World of Man about her sister's adventures as Wonder Woman, Donna became eager to return there, herself. Soon, when Diana returned to make special visits, her stories about the other superheroes there included stories of their new, young sidekicks as well. Boosted by these stories, Donna decided to take it upon herself to follow Diana to Washington D.C. where she mostly worked from, dubbing herself Wonder Kid and declaring herself Wonder Woman's new sidekick.

Wonder Kid wasn't active very long before she found herself teaming up with the other sidekicks and eventually forming a new superhero-ing team she suggested the name for -- the Teen Titans. Together they stopped all manner of crises that the Justice League couldn't (for one reason or another) and became role models the youth of the day.

Unfortunately, though, being teenagers left to their own devices, soon enough their own personal crises began getting in the way of their teamwork. Most of them were just starting to hit the realization that no everything in the Caped community was perfect, including their mentors. And, while they were all going through puberty, Donna found the changes in her own body not matching those of her teammates. The whole situation came to a head when, hormones running wild, Donna and Royce hooked up; or tried to, because it was at that point that Royce discovered that, while Donna presented and identified herself as a woman, her body was undeniably male. Hurt by Royce and, eventually, Elle's inability to sympathize and insistence that she was "weird," Donna left the team. Soon after, there wasn't a team left.

After talking to Diana and Hippolyta and being told the truth of how she came to Themiscyra, Donna went off-planet for a while, changing her name back to Don and joining the interplanetary superhero team known as the Darkstars. Don occasionally made visits back to Earth, which was when zhe befriended Starfire and the new Wonder Kid, Cassie Sandsmark. Don also met Kyle Rayner at this point -- a fellow sometimes space-based superhero.

Upon finally returning to Earth, having accepted her identity as Donna, she once again changed her superhero identity to Troy and began briefly dating Terry Long. That relationship ended badly as well with the revelation that Donna was physically male and, in the ensuing rebound period, Donna ended up with Kyle, who had come to be accepting of her gender identity issues. However he would later prove to be a jerk in other ways.