I'm not in the USA, I'm from the rest of the world where these things do not matter because we do not write them, and therefore following them is a pure and undisguised matter of politics and no one pretends politicians are simply listening to expert opinion and that's that
(I didn't mean to imply you were in the US, it just ocurred to me that the US has, or is a side in that one) (the UN and international treaties on human rights *do* affect the rest of the world tho) (I mean, the US also does affect the rest of the world, no sense pretending otherwise, but yeah)
Following the DSM is absolutely obviously political (tho that doesn't stop it from happening), but following the UN or international treaties on human rights does pass as way more neutral though.