A5212 provides that all appointments or reappointments to any state or local board of authority shall be “gender balanced.” The Assembly passed A5212 on March 27, 2024, by a vote of 112 to 38. We have assigned pluses to the nays because this bill defines “gender balanced” as “providing women candidates with a preference when appointing individuals to boards.” Inspired by raging feminists and Marxist radicals who push for diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI), it would implement “gender quotas,” based on the false premise of egalitarianism. Yet, the State of New York has absolutely no business “promoting women” to serve in positions of public authority. Neither “women’s rights” nor “human rights” can be defined apart from the fact that every person is born distinctly male or female. Although both men and women are made in the image of God, they each, according to biological sex, have unique, but different, characteristics and roles in the family and in society. The U.S. Constitution’s Bill of Rights and 14th Amendment were written to promote the “general Welfare” of all Americans by securing each person’s right to “equal protection of the laws,” not “equal outcomes.”