Latest
AFPI’s Hannah Anderson Testifies Before House Subcommittee on Ending Hidden Health Care Conflicts Driving Up Costs
Hannah Anderson, Director of Healthy America Policy at the America First Policy Institute (AFPI), testified before the House Education and the Workforce’s Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions to discuss the “Great Healthcare Plan” and increased transparency for patients-first health care.
AFPI Applauds Supreme Court Decision Protecting Free Speech in Counseling
The America First Policy Institute (AFPI) applauds today’s decision by the United States Supreme Court in Chiles v. Salazar, a case addressing whether the government can control what licensed counselors are allowed to say to their clients.
When Diagnosis Becomes Belief
Can I have a show of hands, how many of you love America? I’m an American. I’m also an Oregonian. My great-great-grandfather is buried in the Rose City Cemetery. And my mother’s parents and grandparents are buried in a small pioneer cemetery tucked away in the hills of the central Willamette Valley.
Gender Dysphoria and the Social Transition Intervention
Over the last decade, mental health practitioners have increasingly diagnosed minors with gender dysphoria, a psychological disorder used to describe a person’s mental distress about their biological sex. Gender dysphoria was once considered to be a very rare psychological disorder. As the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM) for Mental Disorders IV-TR stated, “only a very small number of children with Gender Identity Disorder [Gender Dysphoria] will continue to meet criteria for Gender Identity Disorder in adolescence or adulthood” (APA, 2000, p. 579). Today, the ideas contained in this diagnosis are used both formally and informally with much greater frequency than at any time in the history of the diagnostic construct (Bachmann et al., 2024; Sun et al., 2023; Horowitz, 2025).
Social Transition is a Dangerous Psychological Intervention
Social Transition is An Dangerous intervention That is Supposed to Treat gender dysphoria. Social transition is not evidence-based but it is potentially harmful. The gender affirming care model (GAC) has been the predominant intervention used to treat gender dysphoria, which is a mental disorder that occurs when a person has psychological distress about their biological sex.