.Sep 17, 2024, 09:18 PM ETWASHINGTON-- Billie Jean Master will certainly end up being the 1st individual girls's sportsmen to become granted the Legislative Gold Medal.Reps. Brian Fitzpatrick of Pennsylvania and Mikie Sherrill of New Jersey announced Tuesday that their bipartisan laws had passed your home of Panels and also would be sent to President Joe Biden for his signature.The bill to recognize King, the ping pong Lobby of Famer and also protestor, had currently passed unanimously in the Senate.Sherrill, a Democrat, pointed out in a declaration that King's "lifetime of advocacy as well as effort changed the garden for ladies and also ladies on the courthouse, in the class, and the office." The bill was actually offered in September 2023 on the 50th anniversary of King's triumph over Bobby Riggs in the "Battle of the Sexual activities," still the most-watched tennis match of perpetuity. The award, rewarded through Our lawmakers for recognized accomplishments and also contributions to culture, has actually previously been actually given to sportsmens, featuring baseball players Jackie Robinson as well as Roberto Clemente and golf players Port Nicklaus, Byron Nelson and also Arnold Palmer.King had actually already been granted the Presidential Award of Independence in 2009. Fitzpatrick, a Republican politician, says she has "defective obstacles, led undiscovered courses, and inspired countless folks to stand up happily with guts and also view in the defend what corrects.".