Hello, I’m Morty I am a psychotherapist, writer, educator and artist living in Oakland, CA. I was born and raised in Southern California. After spending the first 19 years of my life in Southern California, I moved to Northern California. I spent a number of years in a few other places (New York and Louisiana) before moving permanently back to California. Before becoming a therapist, I traveled many other paths: film director, sex educator, and writer. All of these passions still exist within me and I spend considerable time working on my poetry, short stories and various new projects. My time as a sex educator informed me of my love of working with people around sensitive topics and I decided to forge a path towards becoming a therapist. I hold a Bachelors Degree in Sociology from UC Berkeley and a Masters in Social Work from San Francisco State University. While studying at UC Berkeley, I won a research grant through the Haas Scholars Program, focusing on the ways in which access to public health care has changed social conditions for the transgender community in San Francisco.

Morty Diamond is a writer, artist, activist, editor of Trans/Love: Radical Sex, Love and Relationships Beyond the Gender Binary (Manic D Press) and From the Inside: FTM and Beyond (Manic D Press), working with and for the LGBT community for the past twelve years, focusing primarily on social justice issues concerning gender identity, and currently working on his Masters of Social Work at San Francisco State University.

Morty Diamond is a transsexual writer/ artist/ filmmaker who has edited two anthologies showcasing the trans experience from the perspective of transgender, transsexual and gender variant writers: From the Inside Out (Manic D Press) and the forthcoming Trans/Love (Manic D Press) to be published in August 2011. Morty has directed two movies, Trans Entities and Trannyfags, both of which document the trans experience/trans bodies through moving images. Diamond also uses performance art to make gender and trans bodies visible in public spaces. Past pieces include "My Year In Pink," in which he wore head to toe pink everyday for a full year and "Ask A Tranny," where he allowed strangers to ask him questions about transsexuality while sitting at a booth set up in Time Square. Morty has lectured as a guest artist and speaker on transgender issues at universities such as NYU, Sarah Lawrence, and Vassar.