Riley Gaines' attorney reveals condition it would take to agree to settle lawsuit with NCAA

Former NCAA swimmers Riley Gaines and Kylee Alons, and their attorney William Bock, told Fox News Digital that they would all support criminal prosecution against officials allowing trans athletes to play in women's and girls' sports.

EXCLUSIVE: Riley Gaines' lawsuit against the NCAA will proceed after a federal judge partially denied the defendant's motions to dismiss on Thursday. Her lawyer revealed a key condition it would take to achieve a settlement.

The attorney for Gaines and 19 other plaintiffs involved, Bill Bock of the Independent Council on Women's Sports (ICONS), told Fox News Digital he believes his side can achieve everything it set out hoping to do when first filing back in early 2024. But he also isn't ruling out the possibility of agreeing to a settlement with the NCAA, but said such an agreement in this case would be "difficult."

Federal judge Tiffany Johnson ruled on Thursday that Bock's clients plausibly alleged the NCAA receives federal financial assistance, and is thus, subject to Title IX. 

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The NCAA changed its gender eligibility policy in February to state that only biologically female athletes be permitted to compete in the women's category, one day after President Donald Trump signed the "Keeping Men Out of Women's Sports" executive order. 

Bock worries about the NCAA changing its policy back in the event of a change in federal policy. 

"The difficulty with a settlement is making a settlement enforceable long term, so the best way to do that would be with a judicial order," Bock said. "The only way that I think we would look at settling is if the settlement was accompanied by a consent decree, which is an enforceable ongoing order against