"She is still asserting her innocence," he said.
Despite ruling that the bulk collection regimes were unlawful in the past, the IPT is still asserting BCD and BPD are now lawful — based on their eventual avowal in parliament.
At the age of 15 or 16, if the child is still asserting a cross-gender identity, there is almost zero chance that this will change.
Even those psychologists who push for "reparative therapy" to "normalize" gender-nonconforming children acknowledge that if a child is still asserting a particular gender identity at the age of 6, the odds of it changing are exceedingly small.
But to a surprising degree, considering that Stewart, Libby and Bonds are still asserting their innocence (and Madoff is still lying) the facts aren't really in dispute.
As late as February 1984, Gallo was still asserting that HTLV or a variant was the "only candidate" for the virus that causes AIDS.
She imbued that truth so deeply that nigh on seven generations of denial later, her descendants were still asserting it with such fierce determination that history was finally set straight.
"Indigenous people are still asserting our rights to free, prior, and informed consent; we're still asserting our sovereignty over our lands, even if the hand that claims to feed us is still refusing to feed us".
In a response filed shortly after the government announced its sleight of hand, lawyers for some of the Guantánamo prisoners argued, as SCOTUSblog described it, that the new government was "still asserting too much authority.
It is still sometimes asserted, quite confidently, that teenagers aren't interested in feminism – but the idea has never seemed more laughable.
