TransContinental

Travel features, news, and reviews about transgender travel and profiles of transgender hospitality and travel industry professionals.

Stephanie Land, third from the right in the foreground, founder of Transgender Vacations, with Sherry Donegan, second from the right in the foreground, with some of the gender variant and ally travelers aboard the second annual Caribbean cruise. (Photo: Courtesy of Transgender Vacations)

Transphobia Aboard Royal Caribbean Complains Transgender Vacations

Transgender Cruisers Aboard the Second Annual Transgender Vacations Caribbean Cruise Upset By Mistreatment, Complain To Royal Caribbean by Heather Cassell It was supposed to be fun on the high seas on the second annual Transgender Vacations’ Caribbean cruise aboard a Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd. ship. That was until one guest was the recipient of homophobic […]

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Dana Zzyym, right, the plaintiff in a federal discrimination lawsuit filed by Lambda Legal against the US State Department seeking more gender options for passports, responds to a question while Paul D. Castillo, staff attorney in the South Central Regional Office of Lambda Legal in Dallas, looks on during a news conference about the case Monday, October 26, 2015, in Denver, Colorado. Dana, an intersex person, was denied a US passport for refusing to check either male or female on the application form. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)

US State Department Sued To Allow Third Gender Passports

Denied a passport, Dana Zzyym, an intersex activist, is suing the United States State Department.

The Fort Collins, Colorado resident, who doesn’t identify as male or female, filed a lawsuit refusing to have to be forced to identify themselves by the gender markers currently available to applicants for US passports October 26.

Monday also was International Intersex and Transgender Awareness Day.

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Bhumika Shrestha proudly holds up her passport as the first transgender person to fly using her new passport that denotes “other” as her gender, as she boards a plane to New Delhi, India on Tuesday, October 6. (Photo: Courtesy of the Blue Diamond Society)

Nepal’s First Transgender Woman To Fly Using New Passport Denoting ‘Other’

Bhumika Shrestha tests out her new passport denoting “other” as her gender at Tribhuvan International Airport in Kathmandu, Nepal by Heather Cassell Looking at Bhumika Shrestha as she makes her way through Tribhuvan International Airport in Kathmandu, Nepal, an average onlooker would only notice that she’s a beautiful young woman. What onlookers don’t know is […]

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Smooth sailing aboard Transgender Vacation’s Caribbean cruise. (Photo: Courtesy of Transgender Vacations)

Transcontinental: Vacations for Gender Variant Travelers

A handful of guests mixed and mingled with other cruisers aboard the inaugural transgender cruise to the Caribbean in December 2014.

About five guests – two transgender individuals, a partner of one of the transgender guests, a person who cross-dresses – and Stephanie Land, founder of Transgender Vacations, which produced the cruise, boarded the Navigator of the Seas of the Royal Caribbean.

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Transgender Comedian D'Lo (Photo: Courtesy of smithsonianapa.org)

D’Lo Knows No Boundaries In Comedy and Travel

It doesn’t hurt having friends in many places, especially if your life consists of being on the road much of the time, at least that’s what comedian D’Lo has found.

Knowing artists and activists in different cities allows the queer Tamil Sri L.A.nkan-American to not feel like such an outsider, he says.

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Trans Cruise Preparing to Set Sail

Possibly a first, a trans cruise is in the works to sail to the Caribbean on the Royal Caribbean in December.

The cruise will set sail on Navigator of the Seas from Galveston, Texas for a eight day adventure December 14. The ship will dock in Roatan, Honduras; Belize City, Belize; and Cozumel, Mexico.

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