14 DAY TRIAL // In November last year, a former rugby player from the UK, Chris Birch, caught international headlines when he came forward to say he had a stroke and woke up gay. A new documentary on his experience is now out.
For the time being, you can see it in full below, embedded at the end of the article.
Called “A Stroke Turned Me Gay” and produced by BBC3, the film sees Birch, who is now living as a hairdresser and is already engaged to a man, reliving the experience that changed his life.
He also revisits the place where the accident occurred, when blood flow to his brain was cut and he had the stroke that “turned” him gay.
Even though Birch's story is still getting skeptics LOLing or even calling him a liar to his face, he insists he doesn't regret anything that's happened.
“It's like looking at somebody else, but with my face only younger, and in all fairness, if I met myself I'd probably carry on walking,” he says of the difference between the two Chrises, the one before the stroke and the one after.
“I was doing a forward roll down a grass bank one day and cut off the blood supply to my brain which caused a stroke to happen. It was from there, while I was recovering, that I realized I'd changed,” Chris explains on the very spot where the accident occurred.
As he was lying on the grass, he already knew that he would never be the same man again.
“The Chris I knew had gone and a new Chris sort of came along. I came to the realization that the stroke had turned me gay,” he explains.
As we also pointed out when the story first broke, Birch insists he was straight before the stroke – as straight as can be.
Various experts doubt that, saying that his case is not necessarily one of rewiring of the brain, but rather of a man afraid to admit his true orientation to his family and friends – and using a freak accident to explain it.
He may have always been like that, but hiding under the tough facade of a rugby player, ashamed to own up to his true self. He used the accident to “turn” gay, they say.
Check out the documentary below to see whether that could be the case or not.
