During school time, professional training and during puberty, gender identities can be an important.

During this time, trans* people can be confronted with strong contradictions between their body and identity and can experience discriminatory exclusion by peers or teachers.

In the area of education, trans* people are also, by structural marginalisation: changing rooms, toilets, or physical education, often only accepted by the binarity of cis male or cis female. This environment also impacts trans* youths beyond their everyday school life: Interviews show that starting a traineeship or studies can require major efforts of young trans* people. Some describe that feeling the need to transition (e.g., by a surgical operation) before continuing a traineeship, so that they face less discrimination within their environment. Medical treatment can also have a temporal impact as trans* people have to pause or reschedule their traineeship during the treatment.

A survey by the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) of 2019 showed that 35% of the interviewed trans* people have experienced discrimination by school university staff compared to 24% in 2011.

In a survey by the Federal Anti-Discrimination Agency in 2017, 27.3% of the interviewed trans* people reported that they have experienced bullying in the areas of education. The study ‘Acceptance of sexual diversity at Berlin Schools’ showed one fifth of the sixth- and nine-graders have witnessed negative reactions to classmates who did not act within gender norms more than half of the time.

In the area of education, as well as access to employment, insecurities and refusals often occur in the use of the right name in work contracts, lists of names, student or employee IDs before, as well as sometimes even after an official change of the name and marital status. Legally, the use of another name is not illegal as long as no fraudulent intent is followed and the person can be clearly identified. In the university context (education), this is ensured through the use of the student ID or at the work place by the social security number. A short assessment by the Humboldt University also refers to the legal scope of universities when using the chosen name of trans* or inter* person before a legal name change.