Born Homosexual vs. Becoming Homosexual: The Worldwide Debate

While society is far from fully accepting homosexuality as a cultural norm, it has entered the public sphere as a subject of discourse, rather than feared and ignored. It is in this sense that scientists are able to invest more of their time and money into researching homosexuality. Also, the study of homosexuality tself both in its cultural causes and social effects, such as AIDS, depression, gender roles, marriage laws, has gained worldwide attention. Research on this matter seems to generally generate more questions than it answers and is often far from conclusive.

Here is a special case I personally have never heard of before and find extremely interesting. According to the BBC documentary “I Woke Up Gay - A Stroke Turned Me Gay”, Chris Birch, a teenager from South Wales, snapped his neck while doing some somersaults and backflips with his friends when he was 19. He claims that after suffering a massive stroke, he woke up as a completely different person, one who is now homosexual.

After watching this, do you believe it was really a transformation, as he insists, or just a realization (after the fact) of something that had been there within him his whole life? It seems to be the focus in this film but is biology really the only factor that plays into this situation? 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GR_-qg-upJs