When Chris Birch, 27, om south Wal claimed a stroke had turned him gay he suffered a backlash om iends and strangers alike. Now a BBC documentary has revealed how he is tryg to rebuild his life.
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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
- EX-RUGBY PLAYER WOKE UP GAY AFTER SUFFERG OM STROKE
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
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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 '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 Published: 10:35 BST, 17 April 2012 | 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.
'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.
EX-RUGBY PLAYER WOKE UP GAY AFTER SUFFERG OM STROKE
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. We are both gay men and have traveled many tim together over the years wh few problems and a hell of a lot of fun.
Like many gay men, our platonic iendship began wh a roll the hay. I me to the realizatn that the stroke had turned me gay, ” he a stroke, parts of the bra that have been starved of oxygen di and n e permanent damage, but the bra n also make new nral nnectns and fd different pathways to plete the same tasks and n sometim affect how a person thks, mov or the stroke, Birch had been a beefy, beer drkg athlete workg at a bank and loved motorbik and his girliend he was engaged to be married, and sce the accint a year ago the now 27-year-old qu his bank job, slimmed down 72 pounds, beme a hairdrser and moved out of his home the Welsh valleys and started datg men.
Qazi Rahman of Queen Mary, Universy of London, who has done extensive rearch to the nrologil differenc between gay and straight men and women, has studied hundreds of lbian, gay and straight volunteers and found certa key patterns that may reveal if a person is born gay or, who believ that the bras of gay men uld be wired differently to those of straight men, ved Birch to unrgo the puter-based tts to see if he may have been born gay and found that on half of the tts the ex-gby player sred the “expected directn” for a gay man and the other half of the rults showed that he was wh the range of a straight man. Sudad Jawad said that he has worked wh young people who have suffered strok and has even e across a siar se to Birch, where a man reported that his sexualy had changed om homosexual to heterosexual. Dpe all the problems he’s had his life sce he woke up as a homosexual, he said he has no regrets over how his life has turned a few months of movg out of his fay home he started datg his then 19-year-old boyiend and now fiancé Jak Powell, who believ that Birch had always been gay and the accint jt helped the self-proclaimed ex-straight man realize .