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Leigh Whitaker said the idea that her son would want to change his gender because of a celebrity is \"condescending.\"

\"It's very dismissive to think that it's just a fad that kids are seeing on TV,\" she said. \"It's way more complicated -- no one is going to just decide they're going to be transgender just to be trendy, because it's a very difficult path to walk in life. It's not really a decision, you're born that way.\"

The other two plaintiffs in the lawsuit -- Jennifer Shaul and Jane Doe -- have not yet had Kirby rule on their teenage children's name-change petitions. A hearing for Shaul's son, James Shaul, has been set for August 14 with Judge Kirby, according to the complaint.

\"Being a teenager is hard enough, but being a transgender teenager is a daily struggle,\" Jennifer Shaul told ABC News in a statement through her attorney. \"A legal name change is usually a simple process, and it makes such a huge impact on transgender teens. A name change would be great for big things like a driver’s license, school forms, and medical forms.

\"We just want our child to be treated like other non-transgender kids,\" Shaul continued in the statement. \"Is this too much to ask? What parent doesn’t want to give their child the best environment and opportunities to thrive, grow up to be confident, feel valued, have a strong sense of worth, but most of all be mentally healthy?\"

Jane Doe is the single parent of a 17-year-old trans teen referred to as John Doe in the complaint. She said is planning to file a petition to change her son's name, but is \"fearful that she and her child will be subjected to an unfair and unconstitutional refusal to consider the name change application,\" according to the complaint.

\"I hate that our kids are being put through so much hassle just to live,\" Jane Doe told ABC News in a statement through her attorney. \"I hope this court case allows other kids to just 'be' without all these extra hoops. The name change should’ve been the simplest part.\"

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Langdon, the plaintiff attorney, said he has filed a petition for a speedy trial in the hopes that these three teens can begin fully living their lives and recognized for who they are.

\"As more transgender people come out, the legal system is going to see name changes, passport changes, gender marker changes on birth certificates, because more and more people are coming to terms with who they are at a younger age, just because of where we are as a society,\" he said.

\"This is not a political thing for us, this is a very clear example of a judge discriminating against a group of people based on a certain classification,\" he added.

\"When it's clear that transgender children are being treated differently from the beginning of the process all the way through the denial, there is something wrong.\"

Leigh Whitaker said she hopes the lawsuit allows Elliott to change his name and that it means that \"other kids don't have to sit there and be interrogated like that in such an invasive way, that they can get their name changes as well to match their identities.\"

Whitaker also had advice for other parents grappling with how to best support their children in their transitions.

\"My advice would be to listen to your child, love your child,\" she said.

\"You feel like you're losing that child, but you're not. It's still the same child, it's just a little bit of a different package. They're still the same wonderful person they've always been.\"

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