‘I regret being trans’: Minneapolis school shooter expressed desire to detransition ahead of attack

Trans-identifying mass shooter Robin Westman confessed in a manifesto that he “was tired of being trans” and wished he had “never brainwashed” himself.

Westman shared his disturbing manifesto on YouTube before he gunned down the Annunciation Catholic Church in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and killed two children on Wednesday. He wrote that he only kept his long hair because it would be an “embarrassing defeat” to cut it, according to a translation by the New York Post.

“I only keep [the long hair] because it is pretty much my last shred of being trans. I am tired of being trans, I wish I never brain-washed myself,” Westman said, according to the translation. “I can’t cut my hair now as it would be an embarrassing defeat, and it might be a concerning change of character that could get me reported. It just always gets in my way. I will probably chop it on the day of the attack.”

Westman changed his name from Robert to Robin in 2019 under the approval of his mother, Mary, because he identified as a female, court records show. The petition, which was granted in January 2020, stated that Westman “identifies as a female and wants her name to reflect that identification.”

The shooter also said that he regretted being “trans” and wished he were a girl, but he did not have the money to make the bodily changes necessary, according to the Post.

“I regret being trans.. I wish I was a girl I just know I cannot achieve that body with the technology we have today. I also can’t afford that,” Westman said.

In his journal, Westman also wrote that he did not want to wear girly clothes all the time because he understood he is not a woman, but he “definitely [didn’t] feel like a man,” the Post reported. He also disturbingly praised the Sandy Hook school shooting in 2012 and wrote about his fantasies to be a “scary horrible monster standing over those powerless kids” ahead of the tragic shooting in Minneapolis.

Hours before the shooting, Westman posted videos to YouTube where he zoomed in on ammunition, multiple guns and cartridges with cryptic messages written on them, including one that called to kill President Donald Trump.

Westman’s mother worked as a secretary at the Annunciation Catholic School for five years before her retirement in 2021.

Democratic Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey spent an entire minute during Wednesday’s press conference lecturing people not to “villainize the trans community” in the wake of the shooting.

The media appears hesitant to cover the fact that Westman was transgender. Many outlets, including The Washington Post and NBC News, used Westman’s preferred feminine pronouns in their coverage of the shooter.

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