My bad. I shudda read the description before I started this story, but the "Trip to Hawaii" part of the title enticed me in. The Transgender tag would also have warned me, had I bothered. Anticipating scenes of paradise lured me.
Having read most of it and skimmed through the rest raises this question - why bother to set a story in Hawaii (or any other exotic spot) unless you're going to also provide some local color of some kind - scenery, food, customs, history, genealogy, surfing or something? The only thing local I got out of this is that haole is the Hawaiian word for people of European descent. It's possible in my haste to get through it I missed something else.