In recent years there have been a number of first-person accounts by transsexual women and men, ranging from autobiographical accounts like Donna Rose's WRAPPED IN BLUE to collections of essays like Julia Serano's WHIPPING GIRL. These accounts are immensely valuable in working to overcome the tremendous misunderstandings of transsexuals that persist among non-transgendered people, including even some mental health professionals. Yet so far none of these accounts have dealt with past-life issues-UNTIL NOW. OVER THE GENDER RAINBOW, subtitled My Long Odyssey back to Womanhood, is the true first-person story of Joni Kay Rose, beginning with her remembered past as an old-maid schoolteacher in Europe during the early part of the twentieth century, her rape and murder in 1944 while still in her forties, her rebirth and early years as a boy in Ohio, New Jersey, and Michigan, her difficult life as an adult male in America, and finally her joyous return to womanhood in 2006 at the age of 61 in New Mexico.