Robin Westman, Minneapolis Annunciation Catholic school shooter confessed being tired of being trans & having ‘brain-washed myself’ according to transcribed manifesto notes

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Robin Westman, Minneapolis Annunciation Catholic school shooter

According to recorded manifesto notes, Robin Westman, the Minneapolis Annunciation Catholic School shooter, confessed to being frustrated of being trans and having 'brain-washed myself' while struggling with the process of switching gender.

According to investigators, Robin Westman, the shooter at Minneapolis Annunciation School, claimed that she was 'weary of being trans' and wished she'd 'never brain-washed' herself in an online manifesto written in Russian Cyrillic alphabet and English.

The revelation comes as investigators examine an alleged journal left behind by the Minneapolis shooter, which appears to be their manifesto, along with accompanying videos posted online in the hours preceding Wednesday morning's mass shooting, which killed two young children and injured 17 others, including 14 children before the gunman committed suicide.

Robin Westman manifesto documented struggle to transition to being trans

Robin Westman manifesto uploaded onto YouTube in the hours prior to the Minneapolis Annunciation school shooting. Notes had been written in part English and Cryllic code.
Robin Westman manifesto uploaded onto YouTube in the hours prior to the Minneapolis Annunciation school shooting. Notes had been written in part English and Cryllic code.

The manifesto which had been written in part English and part code, in keeping with the gunman’s ‘odd-behavior’ as previously cited by a former grade school classmate also included the shooter expressing resentment over their long hair and the decision to transition gender.


‘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, 23, wrote, according to a translation cited by the nypost.


‘I can’t cut my hair now as it would be 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 applied to change their birth name from Robert Westman to Robin Westman in Dakota County, Minn., when the shooter 17 years old, according to court documents. That name change was granted in January 2020. The petition noted that Westman ‘identifies as a female and wants her name to reflect that identification.’


Annunciation school shooter harbored fascination with other mass child killers


But the transition nevertheless was steeped in self doubt and conflict. It continued to remain unknown to what degree Westman had transitioned, including hormone therapy and mental health treatment acclimating to the change from male to female.

Posted Westman in hand-written notes, ‘I don’t want to dress girly all the time but I guess sometimes I really like it. I know I am not a woman but I definitely don’t feel like a man.’


Westman who was fascinated by other mass child killers, harbored a fascination to exact a copy style mass shooting, with Westman in one passage stating, wanting to be the ‘scary horrible monster standing over those powerless kids.’

The passage mirrors Westman’s fascination of Adam Lanza who carried out the Sandy Hook massacre, in which 20 schoolchildren were killed in 2012.

Posted Westman in a journal on May 23,  ‘I have a deep fascination with one man in particular: Adam Lanza.’

Robin Westman trans: indoctrinated by online forums?


Gun parts released on YouTube included the names of several mass shooters, including Sandy Hook gunman, Norway shooter Anders Behring Breivik, and Abundant Life shooter Natalie Rupnow.

Westman's YouTube videos, which were posted hours before the shootings, show the slogans 'kill Donald Trump' and 'for the children' inscribed on rifle magazines.

His journal also revealed that he had especially targeted Annunciation Catholic Church and School, where he graduated from elementary school in 2017.

His mother, Mary Grace Westman, spent five years working as a secretary at the school until she retired in 2021. Commentators on social media have since wondered whether the shooting was a violent response and repudiation of his ‘repressed’ upbringing at the hands of his Catholic mother who had once attended rallies against Planned Parenthood.

Others meanwhile whether the shooter had come to be radicalized by online forums which attract disaffected and disillusioned young men to express their grievances and sometimes encourage them to carry violent actions against society.

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