This sounds like something that Unsolved Mysteries should do a report on. I find it hard to believe one day you are straight and after a traumatic event you wake up gay.
I tend to believe Birch was gay to begin with and this gave him a convenient way to announce to his family and friends. Considering he almost died no one was going to give him any backlash.
Here is the way Birch says it happened.
A hulking, beer-guzzling rugby jock suffered a stroke in a freak training accident — and woke up gay.
Chris Birch was a straight, 266-pound Welsh bank worker who liked sports, girls and booze and was engaged to his girlfriend before the life-style-changing event.
Now, he’s a 154-pound hairdresser who bleaches his tresses and lives with his 19-year-old boyfriend above his salon.
“I was gay when I woke up and I still am,” he said.
Birch, 26, was showing off before friends in a gym by doing a back flip, but he broke his neck and suffered a stroke, according to Britain’s Daily Mail.
He was rushed to Royal Gwent Hospital in the Welsh town of Newport. His girlfriend and relatives waited for him to recover consciousness.
“It sounds strange, but when I came around, I immediately felt different,” Birch recalled. “I wasn’t interested in women anymore. I was definitely gay.”
I watched “HOUSE” a lot (Mike Tomlin is great as Foreman) and this sounds like one of his cases. I assume this could be a neurological issue, but I still think he was gay the whole time.
If he is happy with his new life that is all that matters.