Victorian Liberals president Michael Kroger has intervened to stop a motion on gay "conversion" therapy being debated at the party's state council.

The move follows criticism from federal MPs on Monday that described the motion as a "dark" throwback to the 19th century.

Victorian Liberal Party president Michael Kroger. Credit:Justin McManus

The proposal, from a Young Liberal branch linked to veteran federal MP Kevin Andrews, called for the law to be changed to ensure doctors "can offer counselling out of same-sex attraction or gender transitioning".

Seven months before the Victorian election, it also called on the state government to give parents and minors "full information about the psychological harms of social, medical and surgical gender transitioning".