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I'm writing this reply not as a correction, but as advice from a native english speaker. The word "transvestite" has fallen out of use due to connotations (bigotry). I would use cross-dressing here, instead of transvestite. It's a word that USA-english speakers mostly avoiding using because there are less ambiguous ones (use transwoman/transman for trans people, use cross-dressing for cis people preforming a role/fetish).
Your choice of word was not incorrect, it has just fallen out of fashion.
Thank you for the perspective, amended my post. Didn't remove it completely to allow others the same insight.
had to tell my English teacher the same thing last Friday. She reads a lot of historical books, so it makes sense that there'd be some confusion lol