NEW: Minnesota Shooter Regretted Gender Transition, Manifesto Reveals

Robin Westman, the 23-year-old shooter in Wednesday’s horrific tragedy at a Minnesota Catholic church, appeared to express regret for his gender transition in recently discovered pages of his manifesto.

The document, presented in a time-released video that was published just hours after his death, paints the picture of a young man wrestling with his recent decision to adopt a female gender and change his name from Robert. As a minor, Westman enlisted his mother to petition a court to change his name in 2019.

Writing in Cyrillic, the future shooter confessed he was “tired of being trans,” wishing that “I never brain-washed myself.” He also groaned about his long hair, which he grew after coming out to live as a woman.

“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,” he wrote, according to a translation by the NY Post.

“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.”

Elsewhere, Westman expressed profound regret for living the end of his life as a girl.

“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,” he said.

Assumption Church in Minneapolis was an abattoir of atrocities on Wednesday morning after Westman opened fire on K-8 students as they attended a morning Mass at the church. The children attended a Catholic elementary school just hundreds of feet from where some were killed.

One fifth grader painfully described how he hid beneath the body of a classmate who was shot, playing dead as Westman stalked the pews for his next victim.

Westman applied for a name change in Dakota County, Minn., when he was 17 years old, according to the Post. His mother sponsored his decision, which was approved in January 2020.

He “identifies as a female and wants her name to reflect that identification,” court documents state.

Five years later, Westman was expressing regret for his gender swap.

“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,” he wrote.

Other chilling passages from his manifesto describe how Westman hoped to be known as a “scary horrible monster standing over those powerless kids.”