In my country scouts were just scouts, no separation, and in my view it was really a super-positive thing. I've made some good female friends there, had some of

In my country scouts were just scouts, no separation, and in my view it was really a super-positive thing. I've made some good female friends there, had some of the first crushes and romances and all in all that gender mixed environment was much less toxic experience for me than for instance later when I was in a high-school which was technically oriented and had almost no girls at all. All male environment brings the aggression levels up a lot, just as all female environments tend to have much more power games, clans and "politics". When you mix genders people usually behave better (or at least they pretend to be less of a-holes) in my experience.