Most definitely.
Amen to that!
I will also tell you that we had a couple of girls who played youth football in our league. Not on our team, but other teams. It amazed me to see how the boys reacted towards the girls. Even at 7-9, these young men knew something wasn’t right about it. They wouldn’t engage them on the field. My son even asked me what to do if one of the girls tried to tackle him (he is a WR) because he didn’t want to “hurt” her. I told him not to do anything different than he would if she were a boy. I explained to him that her parents were stupid enough to put her out there with boys and she would end up regretting it eventually, but he had a job to do and should do it. I also explained that she had the same pads on that he did and he wouldn’t hurt her if he played like we had taught him.
Fortunately he didn’t have to worry about her getting close enough to hit, but I noticed most of the boys took it easier on her than they did the other boys, but they wouldn’t let her “beat” them. We won and moved on, but I heard she didn’t fare too well against one of the more “rough” teams in our league and they really lit into her. There haven’t been any girls on the football field since then, thankfully.