That's not even a preflower. It's a new shoot growing out of the existing node.
Too bad you cut it down based on crappy opinions from people who obviously have never seen a male plant.
A male plant would have clusters of pollen sacks around the nodes. Your plant didn't have that.
Really, lol.the sac wouldve started clustering up if given more time.
dont listen to them its a male, not new growth, i had the same thing on a couple of the males i had to pull. you can see thats where the preflowers pop up first and you can see the two stems shooting out, a fan leaf and a branch coming off the main stem, more new growth doesnt come out of the main stem like that.