
If you’re referring to the section about all male/female social groups, that doesn’t say anything about people finding it hard to make friends of a different gender. Thats Pew asking how people feel about friend groups that are all men or all women. They do not ask how hard it is to form other kinds of friend groups, and they do not say these people have NO friends of another gender, just that they have certain clubs or gatherings of all men/women.
That’s fair and I bring you: i view all my actual friends like family. Like, the men and nonbinary ones too. I get that it’s probably that deep for some people, but i don’t think it’s that deep when it’s me lol. Also idk i don’t need that connection to care about someone i don’t know/am only acquaintances with anyway?