It’s a rough sport, as many of you have pointed out. Girls have to overcome instincts in order to do it well. This is doable, but it has to be done.
I had a female lacrosse coach in my office once. She was studying how girls played team sports. It seems that any time a girl got hurt, all the rest of the girls would crowd around and ask if the injured girl was ok. What they should be doing is continuing play.
Guys do that. I don’t know if it is instinctive, or learned early, but they are focused on what needs to be done and will attend to the fallen comrade when they are done. Or one person will attend to the injured person while the rest play on. In war, if you all crowded around a fallen comrade, they’d all be dead.
Girls have to learn how to do this. Their instincts are to attend to the injury. This is all about average behavior, not individual behavior which could vary quite dramatically.
Extrapolating, I’d say that girls, on average, are more afraid of getting hurt than boys are.
Of course, I’ve seen more and more girls “skating” in the last few years. Learning to ignore scrapes and burns is doable. Probably most boys had to do it, but it’s not considered a girl thing. But once they learn, I’m sure it’s not a big deal to join the fraternity, so to speak.