Transverts vs Transvests - What's the difference?

As verbs the difference between transverts and transvests

is that transverts is (transvert) while transvests is (transvest).

(head)

(transvert)

(en verb)

(obsolete) To cause to turn across; to transverse.

* 1448 , The Craft of Lovers

Why mannes langage wil procure and transvert / The wille of wymmen and vyrgyns innocent

(head)

(transvest)

(en verb)

(uncommon, formal) To wear clothes typically associated with the opposite sex.

* 2010 , Sabine Lang, Men as Women, Women as Men: Changing Gender in Native American Cultures :

both their gender role and their gender status must have been so distinctively androgynous that they probably did not transvest .

This term is rare and formal; the casual is much more common.

* cross-dress