The National Education Policy 2020 has two policy interventions associated with transgender students, namely identifying them as a category where the gap towards access to education is a question while also including them in a “gender-inclusion fund,” whereby the policy seeks to provide equitable and quality education for them. While the policy talks about an “integrated teacher education programme,” there has been no shift of formulating the inclusion of teachers who do not identify themselves within binary cis-heteronormative structures prevalent in the social imagination of the Indian nation state. The social imagination and the “category” of belonging to a non-conforming