Police say that the suspect is known to frequent the downtown area has been identified as 32 year old Desiree Anderson. The suspect is reported to have been staying at the shelter at the same time and allegedly climbed into the victim's bed and sexually assaulted her. In his 1953 book, Philosophical Investigations, the philosopher Ludwig Wittenstein introduced the concept of language games in which he argued that concepts do not need perfect clarity for meaning to be found in them with games as his type specimen. Games are usually something one does for fun, but as often as not, people play them with an intensity reserved for the most serious of life's challenges.
In this special episode of the Michael Shermer Show Dr. Shermer comments on current events surrounding trans matters and reads his in-depth essay on the subject, originally published as one of his regularly Skeptic columns on Substack.