Schools are consistently identified by trans and gender diverse (TGD) young people as key areas of concern and exclusion. This was reinforced during the period of this research when the previous Australian government attempted to push through a religious discrimination bill package in 2022. This bill would have amended the Sex Discrimination Act 1984 and created a new religious discrimination Act to preserve and strengthen religious schools’ ability to expel trans students. The chapter opens with a brief account of the anti-trans movement, which is undermining the human rights of trans students, who are often at the centre of a media storm not just in Australia but globally. The chapter then provides a focus on the experiences of the TGD young people who were part of our study, including students and teachers in ACT senior secondary colleges and recent school leavers in NSW. It examines issues that students encountered with practical school matters (e.g., toilets, school camps, class lists, uniforms), curriculum, pedagogical practices, school policies and relationships with cisgender students, including through LGBTQ + ally groups within their schools. It also considers the extent to which and how teachers and school leaders are responding to TGD students in ways that may be supportive or damaging. The chapter argues that schools cannot be safe spaces for TGD students when cisheteronormative and transphobic discourses are foundational to structural and everyday school experiences of TGD young people.