The New Mexico high school Jesse Tyler Ferguson attended gained national attention last week when it was brought to light that school officials were forcing a transgender male student, Damien Garcia, to wear a female graduation gown during the school's commencement ceremony. 

The Modern Family star became aware of the story and has reached out to St. Pius High School directly on Damien's behalf. 

See what he has to say after the jump.

The White House has just released a video message from Ambassador Susan Rice—U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations—addressing today's International Day Against Homophobia (as they address it, minus transphobia mentions). See the video and read the transcript below.

This morning, marking International Day Against Homphobia and Transphobia, the largest EU survey of hate crime and discrimination targeting members of the LGBT community in the 27-nation bloc and Croatia showed many live in fear and conceal their sexual identity. Details below.

Hong Kong's highest court has ruled that a transgender woman has the right to marry her boyfriend. It's a huge step forward in the acknowledgment of the transgender community as being members of the gender with which they identify. 

Though same-sex marriage is not currently legal in the country, this certainly bodes well for its future passage as well.

More after the jump!

Because clearly the school district has nothing better to do than regulate   a legal adult's self-identification, the Red Lion Area School District in Pennsylvania is refusing to call a transgender student by his chosen name at his high school graduation. 

More after the jump. 

ABC News producer Don Ennis has bravely come out as transgender and has officially--and legally--become Dawn Stacey Ennis. 

She says: “Today I begin anew. Please understand: This is not a game of dress-up, or make-believe. It is my affirmation of who I now am and what I must do to be happy, in response to a soul-crushing secret that my wife and I have been dealing with for more than seven years, mostly in secret.”

More after the jump. 

In a move signalling its continued committment to the diversity and the LGBT community, Yale University has decided to extend insurance coverage for sexual reassignment surgery to its students. 

Details after the jump.

The Cleveland Plain Dealer publication decided to take the low road in its coverage of the local murder of transgender woman Cemia Acoff. Referring to Cemia as "oddly dressed" and "it" in its reporting, the Plain Dealer is being called out by GLAAD and other groups for its outrageous lack of professionalism. 

Do the editors of the New York Post run this Midwest paper?

Details follow.

It's hard to believe, but apparently there hasn't been a transgender character in a mainstream superhero comic. 

Until now. DC Comics brings the first ongoing transgender character to the mainstream in Batgirl #19, when Barbara Gordon's roommate Alysia Yeoh comes out as a transgender female.

Check it out after the jump!

We're not sure why he's chiming in anyway, since he won't ever be fighting Fallon Fox, but UFC fighter Matt Mitrione made an ass of himself on Monday when he went on a vitriolic rant against transgender female fighter Fallon Fox. 

During an appearance on The MMA Hour, Mitrione called Fallon Fox a "lying, sick, sociopathic, disgusting freak."

Sadly it doesn't end there. See what else Mitrione had to say after the jump.

A new study reveals that HIV is affects transgender women in far greater numbers than any other group and also makes it painfully clear that the transgender community needs to be further included in the HIV conversation.

More after the jump. 

Fallon Fox is officially free to fight in Florida now that she's been cleared of allegations that she lied when applying for her Florida license.

The MMA fighter recently came out as transgender and there have been questions raised about whether she'd previously been licensed to fight in  California (and whether she intentionally misled the Florida licensing group). 

More after the jump.