The American Psychological Association (APA) leadership was infiltrated in the mid 1980s by gay rights activists who abandoned scientific study as the basis for APA recommendations. Since then, APA has been a political activist movement supporting political matters rather than studying the mental health of Americans. The pre-1980s science-based rules, known as the Leona Tyler Principle, have been fully discarded from the APA practices resulting in predictable mental health crises in the United States around human sexuality and individual identity.
An investigation of the APA and public declaration is needed to determine if it is a political activist organization or a scientific body providing recommendations supporting good mental health in the United States. A past President of the APA, Nicholas Cummings, describes it as the former since 1980s.
