.Sep 17, 2024, 09:18 PM ETWASHINGTON-- Billie Jean Master are going to become the very first individual girls's sportsmen to be granted the Congressional Gold Medal.Reps. Brian Fitzpatrick of Pennsylvania and also Mikie Sherrill of New Shirt revealed Tuesday that their bipartisan regulations had passed your house of Agents and also will be actually delivered to Head of state Joe Biden for his signature.The expense to honor King, the ping pong Hallway of Famer and protestor, had actually already passed all in the Senate.Sherrill, a Democrat, claimed in a statement that Master's "lifetime of campaigning for and hard work modified the yard for women as well as women on the courtroom, in the class, and also the work environment." The costs was actually offered in September 2023 on the 50th anniversary of King's triumph over Bobby Riggs in the "Struggle of the Sexual activities," still the most-watched tennis suit of all time. The award, awarded by Our lawmakers for notable success and additions to community, has earlier been actually given to athletes, featuring baseball players Jackie Robinson as well as Roberto Clemente and golf enthusiasts Port Nicklaus, Byron Nelson and Arnold Palmer.King had actually presently been rewarded the Presidential Award of Independence in 2009. Fitzpatrick, a Republican politician, says she possesses "faulty obstacles, led undiscovered paths, as well as motivated a great number of individuals to stand proudly with nerve as well as view in the defend what is right.".