My profile picture for my YouTube channel was made in Scratch. It was an altered image of the Mountain Dew logo, but the "D" was replaced with a "T." I thought it was a cool logo and I still believe that to this day, and it turned out quite well for something that was made in Scratch afterall.
My content was generally speaking, kinda dogshit. You have to see it for yourself to understand what I am talking about. On 4 October of that year, I made a controversial statement in a debate studio on Scratch. Throughout late September and early October, I made these visits to the debate studio to discuss just about everything, which commonly included politics.
There were a few people I could not stand in the studio. The most prominent one being this FTM transgender person that was inside it. They were horribly woke and commonly offered extreme responses to people with moderate positions that were even slightly skewed to be viewed as "anti-progressive". I disliked this person, but they never were more annoying than the day I found out what Transgenderism truly was.
In September, I jokingly asked the Spanish teacher, a conservative, "How many genders are there in Mexico?" She responded with "Only 2, like everywhere else." This made me start thinking about Transgenderism, and I researched it. Previously, I believed that a Trans man was a man with a female body (basically the body of a woman, looks just like a woman, but with male genitalia). Similarly, I thought a Trans woman was a woman with a male body (or in other words, has the body of a man, but has female genitalia). I could not have been more wrong.
That is when I began feeling skeptical of transgenderism, and when you have unanswered questions, you can't make sense of the subject.
So on 4 October, I logged onto my Scratch account and tried to logically ask a question about transgenderism without offending anybody. This did not work as I was then banned for 3 days.
I was stupid, I immediately created a Sockpuppet account that same day and it was not long until the staff found out about my sockpuppet account. I then got an IP ban when they figured it out and the day they did that was on the 5th of October. This made using Scratch next to impossible, all just because a trans person had no answer to a question. In retrospect, the question wasn't a very good question but it could've been answered if the person actually tried.
At the time, I viewed this as if I made too much sense with my argument against the concept of gender identity and I ultimately took it as a sign. They could have stopped me from becoming the way I did but they only proved me more right. As the old quote by George R. R. Martin goes, "When you tear out a man's tongue, you are not proving him a liar, you are only telling the world that you fear what he might say." Censorship on subjects like these do not eliminate these ideas