Burly rugby player has a stroke after freak gym accident… wakes up gay

[CatWoman]

and becomes a hairdresser

Chris Birch loses eight stone and transforms himself from skinhead to 'preened man'

He gives up job in bank and retrains as a hairdresser


A 19st rugby player suffered a stroke while training - and discovered when he woke up that he was gay.

Chris Birch, 26, had proposed to his girlfriend and worked in a bank when he suffered a freak accident in the gym.

The rugby-loving Welshman was trying to impress his friends with a back flip but broke his neck and suffered a stroke.


He was taken to the Royal Gwent hospital where his girlfriend and family waited for news - but said: 'I was gay when I woke up and I still am.'

His friends were stunned by the dramatic changes to his personality, especially his change in sexuality.

Chris said: 'It sounds strange but when I came round I immediately felt different.

'I wasn't interested in women any more. I was definitely gay.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2058921/19st-rugby-player-Chris-Birch-stroke-gym-accident-wakes-gay.html#ixzz1dAIjn0qw

[MineralMan]

1. Daily Mail? Really?

I don't believe anything I read in that British tabloid rag. I suspect this is bogus. I don't know why anyone quotes from it...

[CatWoman]

3. actually, I found it in Salon

and the original came from the mail.

[MineralMan]

4. I'd bet a large sum of money that it's crap.

It's a sensationalist conservative tabloid. Nothing in the Daily Mail should be taken seriously without corroboration. This looks like their typical crap story about GLBT issues.

[CatWoman]

8. I can't say

but I do know that I've seen several interesting stories posted here from the mail.

[muriel_volestrangler]

7. Also in The Mirror about 7 weeks ago

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2011/09/22/having-a-stroke-made-me-gay-115875-23436853/

Another tabloid, though left-leaning, and less likely to have ulterior 'social' motives for its stories than the Mail.

[Angry Dragon]

2. I smell onions

[CatWoman]

9. did you just come out of a coma?

[Scuba]

5. I hate it when that happens. n/t

[xchrom]

6. It's happened to me countless times.

I do a back flip
- I wake up
Gay.

[Nye Bevan]

10. Potential Jim Carrey movie (nt)

[riderinthestorm]

11. Sooo... all you have to do is break your neck and suffer a stroke, go into a coma and your sexuality

is changed??

Can't you just see the next religious right whackjob who seizes on this as the "cure" for teh gay?



(I'm not at all sure I'm being sarcastic)

[eppur_se_muova]

12. Thus strengthening the argument that it's not a choice ???

Oops, we weren't supposed to notice that. :blush:

[CatWoman]

13. I posted this article to mock the absurbity of its findings

not to mock my fellow DUers.

for some reason, people lose sight of that