Hormone therapy is an external change to align with how someone internally identifies. Taking hormones doesn’t change how a person identifies themself.
Conversion therapy is an attempt at an internal change to align their identity with how they are perceived externally.
While I could see someone out there attempt to conflate the two, they are fundamentally different. Not to mention the data showing how HRT is helpful and conversion therapy is harmful.
Frankly, the conversion camps should all be banned due to the wide-spread use of vomit-inducing drugs, electrodes placed on the body, pornography, and shame tactics used on minors. I still can’t see why they can be legal when there are camps that strap minors to a chair, force them to view pornographic images, and shock them when they view people of the same biological sex.
It’s much older than Clockwork Orange. The church condoned all sorts of torture during the Medieval and Renaissance periods, all sorts of evils during the Spanish Inquisition, torture and killing of Native Americans, and I’m sure many other atrocities that can be found across the globe.
The conversion camps are just the latest iteration of violence against those they consider out of line or outside of the church.