Tabitha Emo sits for a portrait in her parents home on December 4th, 2018 in Hornell, New York. "I have to acknowledge to myself that, 'Okay I've got to bring it to an end, I've got to put all this stuff away,'" Tabitha said. "You know, I've got to go to sleep and tomorrow is another day where Ray exists again." Tabitha is transgender and struggling to express her gender identity as unspoken tension in her family leaves her feeling alone and halts her from moving forward.