Growing up female is a process of losing power and agency relative to your male peers, and it sucks. Partially in the physical sense of boys getting stronger than you (this was shitty to experience during my 12 years of martial arts), and partially in society's expectations for you to become submissive and tame and "mature".

People love telling little girls they can do anything but don't love when their female peers try to address pervasive sexism, wonder why