Sex changes in various incarnations throughout the historic eras result in innate desires and gender traits that are imprinted on the soul memory. An examination of the sex change lives listed in the Who Was Who Past Life Directory: Based on the Edgar Cayce Discourses, reveals how those innate influences and desires manifested in their future lives in the opposite gender and explains why traits of one gender can be overpowering emotionally while in the body of the opposite physical gender.