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Understanding and respecting non-binary bodies both within the costume industry, and while learning the skills required for this profession in tertiary costume education, is an important topic of discussion. This article discusses the way non-binary bodies have been treated through the education policies and social norms that erased them through the dominant cisnormative gender discourse. Proper attention to the needs of non-binary individuals, both ideologically and pragmatically in the costume field, means a change in the education system. Such a change would develop learners’ and educators’ understanding and promote the role of non-binary and trans youth as co-designers in the shaping of spaces, protocols, didactic tools and, most importantly, how tertiary institutions respond to improving equality, diversity and inclusion. This article explores non-binary bodies within the frame of higher education through the lens of queer pedagogy, a theoretical perspective that sees education as an agent of change, and through the author’s own lived experience and practice in the classroom.