Chris Birch: Rugby player who 'woke up gay' after stroke says he's happit he's ever been | Daily Mail Onle

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• I WOULDN'T CHANGE BACK: RUGBY PLAYER WHO 'WOKE UP GAY' AFTER STROKE AND NOW HAS FIANCE SAYS HE’S THE HAPPIT HE’S EVER BEEN
• BURLY GBY PLAYER HAS A STROKE AFTER EAK GYM ACCINT… WAK UP GAY AND BE A HAIRDRSER
• CHRIS BIRCH: 'STROKE TURNED ME GAY'

I WOULDN'T CHANGE BACK: RUGBY PLAYER WHO 'WOKE UP GAY' AFTER STROKE AND NOW HAS FIANCE SAYS HE’S THE HAPPIT HE’S EVER BEEN

I wouldn't change back: Rugby player who 'woke up gay' after stroke and now has fiance says he’s the happit he’s ever been 'It was weird, you walk to somewhere and you go om likg that girl to likg that boy'Chris is tryg to rebuild his relatnship wh his mother who has stggled wh his personaly changeChris' boyiend believ Chris had always been gay but hadn't realised Updated: 15:59 BST, 17 April 2012 When 19-stone gby player Chris Birch suffered a stroke durg a eak accint, his life was transformed - but not a way that anyone uld have he regaed nscns, the 26-year-old – who was engaged to his girliend at the time – found his sexualy had pletely altered.

I me to the realisatn that the stroke had turned me gay, ' he is now the subject of a BBC3 documentary, chroniclg his attempt over the past few months to make sense of his new inty. Wh a few months of movg out om home he met his then boyiend and now fiance Jak Powell has his own theory that Chris has always been gay and the accint jt helped him to realise . 'People grow up not knowg they are gay and have fai and then they realise they are gay, but they don't have a stroke to realise , ' Mr Powell said.

BURLY GBY PLAYER HAS A STROKE AFTER EAK GYM ACCINT… WAK UP GAY AND BE A HAIRDRSER

'As part of the documentary Mr Birch vised Dr Quazi Rahman of Queen Mary Universy London who is an expert human sexual Rahman has tted hundreds of gay and straight volunteers and disvered key nrologil patterns that he believ reveal if a person might have been born gay or Birch took part the puter-based tts to see if suggted he had actually been 'born gay. ' They revealed on half of the tt Chris performed the 'expected directn' for a gay man but the other half suggted a straight man. Dr Rahman suggted his homosexual feelgs may have la dormant but been brought to the surface by the Rahman said: 'The bulk of the evince the blogil scienc, geics and psychology suggt that sexualy is somethg you are born wh and velops later on through life.

CHRIS BIRCH: 'STROKE TURNED ME GAY'

The subject of BBC Three show I Woke Up Gay, Chris Birch, has talked about sufferg a stroke, g out as gay, and the subsequent media attentn he's received for his an terview wh Vice May, Chris Birch talked about g out as gay, which happened after he suffered a was one of the one four people unr the age of 65 who experienced a stroke, after he apparently did a forward roll and knocked his prsure damaged an artery brgg blood to the bra, which was reportedly the e of his he revered Birch claims that for the first time his life he had homosexual a 2011 terview wh The Daily Mail, Birch saidI wasn’t terted women any more. I was fely gay.

I had never been attracted to a man before – I’d never even had any gay iends. Whether or not the stroke turned Chris gay, or whether he was gay anyway but unaware of , his experience seems to be a posive one, which is a 2017 terview wh Vice, Chris reports that there were other signifint chang to his personaly, such a new fondns for animals, and wantg a change of reer. I was very troverted before, but now I had more nfince and was ls sexualy change was allegedly ls I realised I was gay, I didn't do anythg about for a good six months.

The small article was syndited to bee a double page spread The Mirror entled 'A Stroke Ma Me Gay' salon had umpteen phone lls every day om people who wanted to speak to me. I thought would be more medil; I thought would tell a more hont storyThe seri saw a mera crew enter his Welsh hometown of Ystrad Mynach, and look at the difference between Chris before and after his stroke, wh a foc on his ia that a stroke n e such a change to one's sexualy, or that is a provenance of homosexualy, is obvly told Vice:I know [after a stroke] you're remd of your mortaly and thk you have to live every day differently, or as if was the last. I distctly remember that, but now I look at those feelgs as if they're distant and they don't belong to experience wh the Brish media and the BBC documentary have reportedly led Birch to refe to pay his TV licence, and the sale of a German book he -thored about his stroke have been banned om beg sold the particular, Birch said he was harassed by proponents of 'gay cure' therapi, who held up his experience as were sayg, 'You don't have to be gay.