Swank later apologized, but many transgender activists asserted that she was correct in referring to Teena as a man, as this was the gender in which he preferred to live and act.

Anti-abortion activists, meanwhile, assert that Mr. Gore has tailored his position on the issue to suit his political needs: sympathetic to their cause when he was representing conservative Tennesseans, becoming ever more liberal on the issue as he moved to national campaigns.

Remembering the fiasco of the 1991 constitutional convention, black activists here assert that Colombia's Indians won political power only after they won national respect for their history and culture.

These activists assert that the UK should not continue to hold territory in another EU state.

In contrast, some autistic activists have asserted that people with autism are "different but not diseased", challenging "how we conceptualize such medical conditions."

"Progressive activists have long asserted that the personal is political," wrote Hoffman in his review for The Washington Post.

Two activists have asserted that the police tortured them to make them confess.

But the activists assert that they are guilty of nothing more than overzealousness and bad manners.

Christian activists assert that ignorance of the law and social pressure, including the centrality of marriage to a woman's identity, often affect a girl's decision to convert.