Does white need to be transparent for one color t-shirt printing?

Hi,
I made one color (black and white) graphic as an Illustrator file for a guy who is printing it with one color on t-shirts. Some of the white areas are formed from white objects on top of black objects and some are transparent areas like the background that shows when the Show Transparency Grid is selected from the View menu .
The guy told me his printer said that there are  white objects in the graphic that need to be transparent.
I don’t have any other information. I don’t know what kind of printing, printer, and t-shirts are used. Initially the guy told me not to worry about that, he will prepare the graphic for print but now he is asking me to turn the whites to transparent. Given the situation, I’m suspecting if this is the right approach.
I would like to learn the right way of doing this and I will greatly appreciate any advice, and input. 

If you make a compound path...the artwork will be OK.
That cannot be assumed as true without actually seeing how the artwork is built. In any of these situations,  a normal even-odd winding will cause unwanted black reversals:
Difference regions between any white and black fills (for example a white path only partially overlapping a black path).
Intersection regions between two or more white fills.
Intersection regions between two or more black fills.
Without knowing the artwork stack, the most likely "one-size-fits-all" solution would be the Merge Pathfinder. But even that assumes that all paths are filled, unstroked paths; no Brushes, etc.
But as has already been stated, when printing separations or composite, white means "no ink" unless the white is a spot color Swatch. The strange-sounding request from the printer may also be due to white objects being accidently set to overprint.
The surest thing for a beginner not understanding any of the above would be to just rasterize the whole thing to 1-bit at a moderate resolution, assuming it is all line art and is drawn at 100%.
JET

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