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The practices comprising the analytic category of street harassment arerarely responded to through either criminal or restorative justice approaches, and thepossibilities for transformative justice have to date not been considered. In thisarticle we advocate for a victim-centred justice response to street harassment,specifically examining the potential for transformative justice to function in thisway. Drawing on data from a recent Australian study, we examine participants’understandings of justice and desired justice responses to street harassment. Par-ticipants’ responses drew attention to a range of perceived shortcomings of theformal justice system as a mechanism for responding to street harassment. Instead,participants advocated for a justice response concerned with transforming culturaland structural norms, in particular gender norms. We end in an examination of thelimitations of transformative justice, looking to recent work on ‘‘kaleidoscopicjustice’’ as a way of transforming common conceptions of justice itself.