I so love the dialogue here around these issues and over my life I too have given them a lot of thought.
First, when I look into the culture at large our young girls are already being pushed into womanhood at a very early age. Belonginess can be such a driving source. And the feminine itself is actually quite powerful so this girl child is powerful right from the getgo. Our discussions then have a lot to do with how we are going to weave society to meet the ongoing needs of our people, our young, ourselves, our elders in such a way that our most natural cycles (buds, flowers, seeds) have an opportunity to mature and ripen in our right timing.
For some years I ran a weekend program called Girl Adventure with girls from 9 to 13 years of age. If they went through and were older they would come back and staff with the younger ones. Every once in a while we also had with us a very precocious 8 year old. Each time we took twenty and each time we filled to capacity. I still hear Girl Adventure praises from the ones who went through it. It was obviously a very needed experience. Being someone who does Rites of Passage ceremonies for older children and women in our communities I can say that this age group we are discussing is a very important time to catch.
How I did this with my own daughter who is now twenty was this. On her 9th birthday I told her that her spiritual training would now begin to prepare her for when she was older. I brought her special clothing, jewelry, journals, and tools that were hers during this time and I committed to bringing her to the sacred mountain we lived by one day a month with an overnight. I hoped later when she began her moontime it would also show her how to step into her own space and honor her womanhood with a retreat to the mother earth. I asked her what she wanted to learn about and during this time it was all magic related by her own direction because if given their space girls are in WONDER at this stage. We went on many herb walks and we listened and observed nature. We built fires and walked in the darkness under the stars. We giggled like mad and adventured into unknown moments. My daughter now is a lover of adventure. She is comfortable and comforted by nature.
And then once a year we were joined by 19 more girl children, a staff, and lots of women in our community that wanted something wonderful for girls. During this time, we camped and made fire together with special chants. We were visited by a theatrical ritual greeting of the spirit of the mountain. We swam in the rivers, hiked at night, sang to them in the caves, brought them up on the highropes women (and we are talking 40 feet on belays). We made a 1/2 mile trail of golden thread and upon following it alone through the forest they were met by goddesses who taught them about internal qualities and they loved the dark goddesses the best of course (other tribe writing I can pull up from somewhere). We held council and we danced to the drums. We brought them home to nature, each other and to us, the women who would mentor them. We began deep relationship that has lasted over time.

When there is something for them, they will easily wait.
I notice in the Red Tent Temples it is actually this age group that is most excited by them. Do we hold them at bay? I have not. Because I know too soon that we might lose them to another kind of culture that threatens to kill their deep caring, their wonder off. I want to catch them now. I ask them to leave for our circle time as they must wait to bleed before they can join us then. But yes, the door to the Red Tent Temple is open for them to learn that we are here, we are calling to them and we see them as the girls who will grow to be the wisewomen. What do they ask of me, of us, when they are older? Teach us your skills. We are the ones who will need to deal with what is coming. Do not hold back.

This conversation here is critical.
More.
Action is needed all around.
Society can change if we the women weavers weave new threads and patterns into the life's design. Our girls are waiting.