“If it weren’t for girls we’d have almost no one to serve at Mass in our church.”
In our parish in the northern suburbs of New York, three rites share the church: Ordinary Form, Maronite, and Traditional Latin (Extraordinary Form).
On Sundays on which a High Mass is celebrated (twice a month on average), we usually have 7-10 altar boys for the Latin rite (girls were never allowed in the traditional rite), more for Solemn High Masses.
I don’t think the Ordinary Form has as many boys available to serve Mass.
Perhaps making it a boys-only function will attract more boys to serving Mass.
I hate to see “altar girls” - actually, untrained little brats who run around embarrassing their families into an early grave. I’ll never forget a Mass in which the priest had to reprimand the little wench.