Let's get down to business.

There is this huge debate about the whole gender movement. Many people look around, searching for who they are and what's to identify with. And as one looks around, you recognize the world; as for whom it exists entirely in this "outside". It's the outside world. No big deal. That could be the tree over there, as well as another person and the reflection of you in the mirror of course. Your body is also part of this outer world because, logically, one would never say that the body represents your inner world. 

Therefore, the components of your body also belong to this external world, such as your belly and the skin cell on the belly, but also the skin cell that sits inside the lower parts of the skin membrane and the many nutrients that one consumes daily; you see, even what happens inside your body takes place in this external world, even if that sounds contradictory at first

For example, let's say you could perceive - follow along - the nutrients from your environment in the food on their way through your body with a magnifying glass or a microscope - it would be as if you were following the nutrient intake of, well... let's say, a tree, or that of any other person. Or even yours. You would also assign such an event to an event that, again, takes place outside from you, at least always from your own point of view.

Now, in this thought experiment simply remove the aiding instrument (the magnifying glass / microscope). What's left is your visual apparatus (eye), and you get the following statement:

Perceiving means to take something in that takes place outside.

Do you know what I mean? And that is a problem in the search for the self because of all the things in the world that we perceive around us, point to, and name, the very self is precisely not to be found out there and thus cannot be perceived. And at that moment, the "self" proves to be something immobile, in fact unlocatable. Something thoroughly abstract that we literally cannot "grasp" or get our hands on. It is the bitter irony of anyone who has ever asked themselves "Who am I?" that precisely in the search for the self, already - the very act of seeking - trips over its own feet here and will always produce a distinction between the searcher (the subject) and the object.Everything you want to examine, your name, your gender, your social security number, what your fellow human beings see in you... all of that was, is, and will at best be just a fraction of yourself; however, you can't be only a fraction of yourself and certainly not the sum of this ...package, this body that we drive. As a car driver myself I would never confuse myself with my car that I drive - therefore I don't confuse myself anymore with my body that I drive.

But...

Who - in the world - am I then?

https://youtu.be/dU4lYcN6zEY

(He is Mi and I am Yu)

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>> You see, we are now operating within the framework of depth psychology, transcendence, meditation, and the like. But before it gets out of hand (and it will), I want you to know that much wiser people than me, both before and after me, have devoted themselves to this question of the self, existence, and such. Nietzsche, Buddha, Rene Descartes, and the like.<<

All of this, whose only response to the question "Who am I?" has been withheld from the vast majority of people, does any of it still make sense anywhere, something that is impossible to reconcile with the senses? Because:

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If all these aforementioned components of yourself cannot be the "Self," then what remains as the "Self" to be examined when logically it cannot be anything else?

Nothing?

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What exactly do we call... the "Self"? - Most seekers give up on this question; they fully surrender to illusions. All their energies, their precious time; wasted. Often their answers to questions like these tend to be more like: "I am me, it's obvious, I mean who else could I be? I am this body here, I am standing right in front of you. I see you, I hear you... What else could I be?"

Or also quite often:

"I am this body and the mind. And I live in this body. The body will die; the mind and the brain will cease to function. And then this will be the end of (insert name here). That is what I am... and by the way, I was born this way and will die this way..." - a classic.

If a person now believes that he is now simply a ... coffee cup instead of a human being, it may seem ridiculous at first. There are indeed people who imagine this in (whatever form) delusionally and/or something similar. People like that would probably be found in selected psychiatric facilities. We would now go to him and say "Buddy, hey... You are not a coffee cup. You are a body made of flesh and blood!" And eventually, with enough encouragement, we could convince him that he is not a coffee cup; and with the principle of such a discussion, I would like to discuss your existence.