Prairie has scars on her back and experiences traumatic episodes, but won't burden her adopted parents with her story. Instead, she takes to the internet, finding like-minded friends via the medium of YouTube.

'Republicans believe that parents matter. It was true before the pandemic and has never been more important to say out loud: Parents Matter,' she said. 'They have a right to know, and to have a say in, what their kids are being taught.'

The Indianapolis school district last year launched two tutoring programs that connect students with certified teachers over video. One is available to all students after school, while the other is offered during the day at certain low-performing schools.

As for the boys who want to be girls, how often have they been teased because they're effeminate?

How often have their dads wished they could kick a football? How many of both sexes are gay and should be allowed to grow up as such?

Netflix made a mistake by canceling this show. Many fans believed it was a publicity stunt -- there was no way the streamer would stop funding this acclaimed, if expensive, series intended for five seasons, each wildly different in style and setting from the previous.

The OA is difficult to describe, because it sews a handful of different genres into its own ethereal plane. The OA is surreal at times. Yet instead of floating images gently knocking against each other, the sci-fi here is delivered with the grounded assuredness of a Christopher Nolan movie. It moves with the same relentless force.

Since, she has capitalized on the media attention gained from the coverage of her taunting of Caitlin Clark; appearing in Sports Illustrated and signed an NIL deal with Baton Rouge Mercedes Benz, among others. 

Which is what happened to Keira.

At 16, far too young to give informed consent, she was referred to GIDS. After just three appointments she was prescribed puberty blockers to stop her periods and breasts developing before starting to take the male hormone testosterone a year later. 

Yet even as schools wield billions of dollars in federal COVID relief, a small fraction of students have received school tutoring, according to a survey of the nation´s largest districts by the nonprofit news organization Chalkbeat and The Associated Press.

In the early years it was predominantly young boys who were seeking treatment.

It's now mostly teenage girls who want to change. One third of the whole have autism or other types of neurodiversity, and a large percentage are looked-after children. 

The OA comes from longtime creative team Brit Marling (who also stars as Prairie) and Zal Batmanglij. The show feels like the product of buzzing minds excitedly throwing out idea after idea. The OA is as intense as it is dense, exploring the human condition, mortality, the afterlife and… the multiverse.

"It works, it´s effective, it gets students to improve in their learning and catch up," said Amie Rapaport, a University of Southern California researcher who has analyzed students´ access to intensive tutoring.

Nationwide, schools report that about 10% of students multiple days a week, according to a federal survey from December.

The real number could be even lower: Just 2% of U.S. households say their children are getting that kind of intensive tutoring, according to the of a different nationally representative survey.

In Virginia, Republican candidate Glenn Youngkin's pro-parents campaign allowed the first-time candidate to take out former Democratic Gov. Terry McAuliffe, who's been involved in politics for decades.     

She was detained, questioned for 14 hours and didn't sleep for two days. I doubt I would have had such courage. I know what Putin does to his critics. My friend, the fearless Russian reporter Anna Politkovskaya, recovered from an attempt to poison her, but was shot dead in Moscow in 2006.

A critic of Putin, she had campaigned against Russia's war in Chechnya. I fear Marina's punishment maybe more than the 30,000 rouble (£220) fine she has incurred. I fear for her life.

From here, the story functions a little like the mystery in Yellowjackets. We don't know whether Prairie is telling her new friends the truth or not. We don't know whether she truly has supernatural powers. To them, it doesn't entirely matter. She brings unhappy, trapped people together, showing them the same kindness and understanding they've afforded her. Showing them an escape.

The OA doesn't abide by any strict TV series formula either. The opening credits don't appear until 57 minutes into the show. It was written like an eight-hour film, with a novelistic approach. You don't meet some of the main characters until a third of the way through.

Dr Biggs' conclusion is that the drug does not provide a pause button while a child comes to terms with gender identity. He says there's no evidence their impact is reversible and he sees the treatment as a fast-forward to cross-sex hormones and surgery.