Chris Birch
Chris Birch formerly of Ystrad Mynach, South Wales is a former rugby player who allegedly changed from straight to gay after suffering a stroke whilst rolling down a grass verge in Bargoed, South Wales.
Still regularly suffering with TIAs, Birch has been left a totally different person after his accident as he recalls on www.chrisjbirch.com. The accident was in 2005, when he was 20.
Birch had TV appearances on The Saturday Night Show, Doctors and Filip and Fredrik in 2011, as well as I Woke up Gay and Sunday Night in 2012.
Totally Different Me is a BBC documentary about Birch's life before and after the incident and how he began to cope with his new life. The documentary aired in April 2012. Vice also published a follow-up interview with Birch in 2017.
