Rugby Player Suffers Stroke, Wakes Up as a Gay Hairdresser

I’m gonna say that Chris was never butch or burly.

Very very odd… but I guess ANYTHING is possible.  I’ve never heard of sexuality being changed, but I have heard stories of massive personality changes after strokes.  They can really mess with the wiring in your head.  One that stands out was a story of an older woman who was really into angels… collected them, had them allover her house, and after a stroke had an obsession with witches, all her old angels she loved were taken down, and she covered her house in witches, bats, just really dark stuff.

Actually it’s not at all unusual for a person with a massive acquired brain trauma to wake up with an altered personality, so it’s not outside the realm of possibility that someone’s sexuality could be altered that way – but I don’t know if anyone has actually studied change in feelings of sexuality following brain trauma. Of course, sexuality is not personality, but brain trauma affects speech, sight, and mobility as well, so again, the possibility exists.

I don’t see how this would give more fuel to the idea that homosexuality is a choice… If anything, it seems to suggest the exact opposite.  If you suffer some brain damage that completely alters your personality, and even who you’re attracted to, then clearly sexual orientation isn’t a choice.  There have been cases where a bilingual person has suffered brain damage, and they’ve completely lost their knowledge of the mother tongue, but still retained their second langauge.  You couldn’t say that that person “chose” to forget their first language — it just happened.

I do think that this story is suspicious… I mean, a stroke can completely change the personality, and perhaps orientation.  But the spin on the story makes it sound as if being gay makes you thin and fashionable, with a knack for doing hair!  To me that’s not only offensive, but also sounds more like a story that would be posted on The Onion.  But in any case, it still doesn’t support the idea that homosexuality is a choice.  If true, it suggests that sexual orientation is determined by the hardwiring of the brain.

I can see this too an extent, given injuries like that have even changed people’s accents, but the hairdresser thing…just ugh.
Face-palmed so hard. Someone needs to shut him up.