History Webcomic / VenusEnvy

* ADateWithRosiePalms: There's an entire chapter based around this subject, [[spoiler:though the act itself doesn't even take place in the end.]]

** Though, in all fairness, when it comes to dating, Zoë's father shows [[OverprotectiveDad a bit of the same streak]], if not quite as extreme.

''[[http://www.venusenvycomic.com/ Venus Envy]]'' is a [[UsefulNotes/{{Transgender}} transgender-centered]] [[SliceOfLife slice-of-life]] webcomic which is notable for portraying the subject matter more realistically than most at the time, rather than taking the TransformationComic route. The comic was written and illustrated by Creator/CrystalFrasier under the name "Erin Lindsey."

''[[http://www.venusenvycomic.com/ Venus Envy]]'' is a [[UsefulNotes/{{Transgender}} transgender-centered]] webcomic which is notable for portraying the subject matter more realistically than most at the time, rather than taking the TransformationComic route. The comic was written and illustrated by Creator/CrystalFrasier under the name "Erin Lindsey."

''[[http://www.venusenvycomic.com/ Venus Envy]]'' is a [[UsefulNotes/{{Transgender}} transgender-centered]] webcomic which is notable for portraying the subject matter more realistically than most, rather than taking the TransformationComic route. The comic was written and illustrated by Creator/CrystalFrasier under the name "Erin Lindsey."

* OpenMindedParent: Brutally subverted. When Zoë is trying to tell her mother that she's transgender, her mom says: "It's okay, honey. We love you even [[TransEqualsGay if you're gay]]. You will always be our little boy." As Zoë tells her that she's indeed a ''girl'', her mother shows to be completely unwilling to accept this.

* SchoolgirlLesbians: The entire girl's soccer team, except for one, who fears she's actually straight.

''[[http://www.venusenvycomic.com/ Venus Envy]]'' is a [[UsefulNotes/{{Transgender}} transgender-centered]] webcomic which is notable for portraying the subject matter more realistically than most, rather than taking the TransformationComic route.

''[[http://www.venusenvycomic.com/ Venus Envy]]'' is a [[{{Transgender}} transgender-centered]] webcomic which is notable for portraying the subject matter more realistically than most, rather than taking the TransformationComic route.

* {{Irony}}: Nina thinks [[{{Transgender}} Zoë]] is [[http://www.venusenvycomic.com/index.php?id=911 the perfect girl.]]

* ShownTheirWork: The artist is a trans woman and has a fairly first hand view of what a young {{Transgender}} teen goes through in the US. Taken to horrifying extremes during a FillerStrip when the artist relays the time she was sexually assaulted at college.

* {{Transgender}}: Zoë (transfemale) and Larson (transmale). Lisa initially assumes that Chris is as well (and even goes on a date with him), but [[UnsettlingGenderReveal realises]] that he's just a [[WholesomeCrossdresser crossdresser]].

The author herself seems to have been pleased by this: The comic kept being updated, albeit sporadically, and [[ShoutOut seems to be following the basic outline]] [[AscendedFanon of the aforementioned doujinshi.]] Since January 2014, ''Venus Envy'' is on indefinite hiatus.

* DoesNotLikeMen: Lisa, who won't even speak to boys other than Chris if she can help it. The sheer fact that someone has a penis makes them [[AllMenAreRapists a potential rapist]] in her book.

* CerebusSyndrome: The comic was never exactly light, but as the art changes it gets progressively darker and more serious.
** With [[spoiler: Nina]] as the KnightOfCerebus.

* [[EverythingSoundsSexierInFrench Everything Sounds Scarier In Russian]]: Coach Lonov teaches the girls various Russian phrases to intimidate the opposing team.

* TransTribulations: In the beginning played for laughs, but ever since Zoë became a real character with a name and story, her (and Larson's) troubles a presented in a realistic light and thus not always comedy.

* MyBelovedSmother: Zoë's mother doesn't want her to go out alone in the evening, because she thinks "someone like her" is even more endangered than "a normal girl". Seeing that Zoë went on a date with a boy, not a girl, she completely loses it. There's also the fact that, at one day, she tries to bond with her kid, the next day she plots to manipulate Zoë into giving up hormone therapy because she just doesn't want to acknowledge that Zoë is happier and more self-confident ''because'' she lives as a girl now.

* TransRelationshipTroubles: Zoe deals with this early on. While on a date with a girl, the girl accidentally finds out that Zoe is transgender and freaks out. She gets upset and accuses Zoe of being a {{crossdresser}} trying to date a lesbian.

* BiTheWay: Zoë and Nina

* WantedAGenderConformingChild: Zoë's mother is in deep denial about her, still insisting on calling her "Alex" and referring to her as ''he'' and her ''son''. She genuinely thinks that the self expression as female is just "Alex"'s way of overplaying insecurities and that "he" would be happier if just accepting "himself" and building a confidence on that, but her behavior occasionally borders on emotional abuse, such as when she makes Zoë wear masculine dressing against her will, forces her to present as male when they go to church, or takes away her hormone pills.

* WholesomeCrossdresser: Chris

* SchoolPlay: ''RomeoAndJuliet'', to be exact. Zoë has ''very'' good reasons to object to being cast as Juliet, as it turns out.

It originally started as a simple gag comic about a trans girl, but the nameless lead character soon developed into the comic's heroine, Zoë (neé Alex) Carter. The story itself is a [[TeenDrama Teen]] {{Dramedy}} that centers around Zoë's life as a girl in her new town, where no one (with a couple of exceptions) knows that she was Alexander Carter just a few months ago. The title of the comic is, of course, a pun on UsefulNotes/SigmundFreud's thesis of ''penis envy'', which obviously fails at a girl who's actively trying to get rid of her penis.

* GenderBlenderName: Although she changed it anyways, Zoë's birth name is Alex.