Rugby player turned gay after stroke | Herald Sun

Contents:

• CHRIS BIRCH: RUGBY PLAYER WHO 'WOKE UP GAY' AFTER STROKE SAYS HE'S HAPPIT HE'S EVER BEEN
• EX-RUGBY PLAYER WOKE UP GAY AFTER SUFFERG OM STROKE
• HOW A GBY PLAYER WOKE UP GAY AFTER SUFFERG OM STROKE
• RUGBY MAN WOKE UP GAY AFTER STROKE
• CHRIS BIRCH STROKE: RUGBY PLAYER WAK UP GAY AFTER EAK GYM ACCINT
• FORMER RUGBY PLAYER CLAIMS STROKE TURNED HIM GAY
• RUGBY PLAYER 'WOKE UP GAY' AFTER STROKE
• RUGBY PLAYER WHO HAD A STROKE WOKE UP GAY AND BEME A HAIRDRSER
• RUGBY PLAYER WHO HAD STROKE WOKE UP GAY AND BEME HAIRDRSER
• RUGBY PLAYER 'WAK UP GAY' AFTER STROKE
• RUGBY PLAYER WHO 'WOKE UP GAY' AFTER STROKE SAYS HE'S HAPPIER THAN EVER.
• LESTER’S NICK MCCARTHY OUT AS GAY AND THANKS CLUB FOR THEIR SUPPORT

CHRIS BIRCH: RUGBY PLAYER WHO 'WOKE UP GAY' AFTER STROKE SAYS HE'S 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.

'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. 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 .

“People grow up not knowg they are gay and have fai and then they realize they are gay, but they don't have a stroke to realize , ” Powell said the documentary “I thk eventually if you hadn't had the stroke would have happened anyway. I me to the realisatn that the stroke had turned me gay, ” he said. A prevly hetrosexual gby player says he woke up fancyg men after reverg om a strokeA 19-stone gby player who suffered a stroke dched his fiancee after claimg he woke up gay.

HOW A GBY PLAYER WOKE UP GAY AFTER SUFFERG OM STROKE

Burly gby player has a stroke after eak gym accint… wak up gay and be a hairdrserChris Birch los eight stone and transforms himself om skhead to 'preened man'Giv up job bank and retras as a hairdrser When 19-stone gby player Chris Birch suffered a stroke durg a eak trag accint, his fay feared would be a life-changg while his revery certaly brought about a transformatn, seems to have been a way no one uld have when he regaed nscns, the 26-year-old – who was engaged to his girliend – claimed he had bee gay. Before the stroke: Chris Birch weighed 19 stone, worked a bank and played gbyHe was taken to hospal where his fiancée and fay spent days wag anxly at his bedsi before he livered the shockg Birch relled: ‘I was gay when I woke up and I still am. I was fely gay.

I had never been attracted to a man before – I’d never even had any gay iends. A former Brish gby player claims a stroke turned him gay overnight, the Daily Mail Birch, 26, a bank clerk, broke his neck while attemptg a back flip and suffered a stroke 2005. I had never been attracted to a man before - I'd never even had any gay iends.

I was fely gay, ” he told the now liv wh a 19 year-old lover above the hair salon he works , acrdg to the Daily here to read more om the Daily Mail.

RUGBY MAN WOKE UP GAY AFTER STROKE

Plans to get married and settle down were dropped as he embarked on a new life as a gay man. “I was gay when I woke up and I still am, ” Mr Birch said today, speakg om J’s Hair has also tailed the life-changg impact of his stroke a seri of newspapers.

CHRIS BIRCH STROKE: RUGBY PLAYER WAK UP GAY AFTER EAK GYM ACCINT

“I had never been attracted to a man before - I’d never even had any gay iends. ”Former Wal fullback Gareth Thomas me out as gay December.

A RUGBY-playg straight man claims he woke up homosexual after sufferg a stroke. "I was gay when I woke up and I still am, " he said. "I had never been attracted to a man before - I'd never even had any gay iends.

FORMER RUGBY PLAYER CLAIMS STROKE TURNED HIM GAY

A Welsh gby player says he "woke up gay" after sufferg a stroke and has sce transformed himself — beg a hairdrser, losg 50kg, and dumpg his girliend for a man. Mr Birch said he was never attracted to men or had any gay iends before the eak accint and was even planng on marryg his girliend, although they were on a break when the cint occurred.

Stroke Associatn spokman Joe Korner said was not known if the stroke turned Mr Birch gay, or if he had been gay before the accint but was unaware of .

Plans to get married and settle down were dropped as he embarked on a new life as an openly gay man. "I was gay when I woke up and I still am, " Mr Birch said, speakg om J' Hair has also tailed the life-changg impact of his stroke a seri of newspapers. I me to the realisatn that the stroke had turned me gay, " the.

RUGBY PLAYER 'WOKE UP GAY' AFTER STROKE

Powell has his own theory that Chris has always been gay and the. "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.

RUGBY PLAYER WHO HAD A STROKE WOKE UP GAY AND BEME A HAIRDRSER

The Lester scm-half Nick McCarthy has e out as gay, and thanked ach Leo Cullen and Stuart Lanster for their “unbelievable” support. I need to accept beg gay myself before I uld addrs wh others.

RUGBY PLAYER WHO HAD STROKE WOKE UP GAY AND BEME HAIRDRSER

Photograph: Ryan Byrne/Inpho/ShutterstockFellow Lester player Dunne revealed his bisexualy last year, around the same time Nassib announced he was gay and a few months before Atralian Cavallo ma headl across the world by sharg his news.

Last month, Blackpool’s Jake Daniels beme the first UK-based male footballer to e out as gay sce 1990.

RUGBY PLAYER 'WAK UP GAY' AFTER STROKE

RUGBY PLAYER WHO 'WOKE UP GAY' AFTER STROKE SAYS HE'S HAPPIER THAN EVER.

LESTER’S NICK MCCARTHY OUT AS GAY AND THANKS CLUB FOR THEIR SUPPORT