Coed Soccer Teams

I've noticed something about coed soccer teams. The boys on the team tend to avoid passing the ball to the girls, especially when they see an attacking/scoring opportunity. It seems as if their reason for doing so is because they don't trust the girls to handle the ball well, but sometimes they really don't have anything solid to back up this mistrust. Whether they know it or not, girls actually can play soccer. "Shocking", right?
I'm not saying all girls are phenomenal soccer players, nor am I saying that they're typically better than boys at the sport. Boys tend to be born with better bodies for playing sports, and that's just a natural advantage that they've got. Girls can't help that. I'm just saying that it's not fair to disregard all the female players on the team solely because of their gender. I know of plenty of female soccer players who can easily hold up their own on the soccer field.
As far as recreational soccer goes, I think both boys and girls (on coed teams or not) tend to forget that the point of recreational soccer is not to win, but for everyone to participate and have fun, boys and girls of any ability level alike. They sometimes justify their behavior based on having a passion for winning, as if it were a virtue, but in reality it merely illustrates their total lack of perspective.
Competitive matches are a different matter entirely. In competitive matches, (in my opinion) it's up to every player on the field to do what they think would be best for the team. But I strongly disagree with players immediately eliminating passing to girls as a valid option, just because of their gender.
If a girl on a coed team is a bad player, I'm not saying guys should pass to her just so they don't seem sexist. But if there are people on their team who are genuinely bad at soccer, then (in my opinion) they're not really playing competitively. If they're just fillers so they can meet a minimum roster quota, they're not really playing competitively. They're playing for fun; they're playing for the experience, and they should treat their matches and their team with that mentality.
It's also important to remember that players can up their game, I mean, that's one of the main reasons teams have practices: to get better. But if certain players aren't even given a chance with the ball, they won't be able to prove their advancement in skill.
If there's only one thing people take from reading this rant of mine, it should be this: I can confidently assure you that excluding players is not going to improve your team's chemistry, and without good chemistry, you'll never have a truly good team.