Let's not forget that Dan Savage got raked over the coals for these comments and is still persona non grata in a lot of woke circles.
The "LGBT community" opinion on conversion therapy is totally fucked. I can't be bothered to go into detail but conversion therapy is very cult-like and this blows their fucking woke addled minds. The idea that the people involved are equal parts abusers and victims is just incomprehensible to them.
Savage also used to tell the truth about trannies.
I figured tranny bullying finally broke him when I read a Savage Love column where a crossdressing straight man wrote to Savage, told him he wasn't ready to transition yet, but fetishized pissing like a woman and wanted to reroute his urethra into his taint (apparently just sitting down to piss wasn't enough). Savage treated the question like an ask from a Real True Woman and not a gross, fetishistic tranny. He also used to tell straight men with wives and kids to hold off transitioning until the kids were grown, but that was Literal Murder, and he doesn't do that anymore either.
I have negative respect for the dude for what a fucking coward he is. He knows full well what trannies are, but his househusband's BDSM hobby and their mansion on North Capitol Hill require him to play dumb.
I get opposing conversion therapy for kids since they can't opt out, but why is the community so obsessed with protecting self-hating, delusional adults? There would be no tears shed for Lindsay Graham if it turned out he sought conversion therapy, and the average LG adult seeking it out is more likely on his, or Marcus Bachmann's, level of self-hatred. Who cares what they do to themselves? Adults are free to make stupid decisions, especially if their self-harm doesn't affect anyone else.