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Up until a certain age it really doesn’t matter if the boys and girls are playing together, so this is a good thing to do. She’s talented enough if they decided this so this will be good for her development. A lot of people have played in teams with girls when they were young kids, who cares.
I call BS here; go read the first chapter of the book Outliers. Early years, physical development matters a LOT. Studies showed pro-athelete's birthdays are biased heavily towards the beginning of the year. The idea being that at age 4.75 say you have an extra .75 years of physical development over peers born later in the year. This manifests in you seeing more of the play as you'll be physically dominant. This compounds into more practice, eventually leading to being better (on average), so playing more, so getting better, so getting picked for development teams, so getting better and on & on.
You seem to be arguing a different case/topic to what the OP was talking about.
A January born Male playing with a October (of same year) born girl is fair case for what you wrote.
But a January-born male playing with March-born girl is not really all that significant to be relevant. And that was the point of that comment in general.
Till testosterone hits young teenage boys the Physiological overhead boys have over girls is basically trivial (esp when accounting for selection in social activities like sport which will naturally filter similar physical profiles fitting the relative sports, i.e. taller children will be better at Basketball, even kids version of it).
Post testosterone hitting it's game over though. No girl/women can compete physically with men (of a given age profile of course since 25-year-old female professional is not going to lose to a 80 year old retired man).