Want to find anything out about the Trace Lysette before her transition? Well, you can't. Apart from the single remaining image of her during her teenage years, the only things we know are her hometown (Dayton, Ohio) and what she did at school (a star track athlete). To be honest, we don't even know her birth name or her age.
To be honest again, none of that really matters. It seems like that was a period that Trace would rather forget, anyway. Her confusion and repressed feelings, thanks to a society that basically forced her to cover up who she really was, forced her into the sex industry and exotic dancing while she struggled to become an actress. Although she had medically transitioned by 2002, she never told anyone she was trans during auditions, and lived in constant fear of an "outing".