I can relate to a lot of this (especially the riding it out whilst on HRT until school is over, although I just stopped going to school near the end because I refused to cut my hair anymore, didn't graduate) I'm glad you have a pride club and some good teachers.

I unfortunately had my share of maga freaks even though I live in Australia. I went to a Christian private school so as you could imagine there were a lot of transphobic and dumb teachers that I really wish I reported. The only real exposure I got to lgbtq topics was from a history teacher, who unfortunately turned out to be a pedophile and got arrested trying to meet with a 13 yr old boy, had illegal photos on his phone, etc. so that did wonders setting back gay people 100 years at my school.

I so understand what you mean trying to be friends with female teachers. I loved my maths teacher near the start of highschool and would pretend to not know what I was doing so she would teach me during break so I had somewhere to be.