Problem filling a stroke with white

I'm no Illustrator expert so forgive me in advance if I use the wrong terminology.
I want to produce a white image of a stag without a background. I traced the image and have it rendered with a path using the stroke tool. You can see the stroke selected below.
My goal is to remove the green circle in the background and save the white stag only. Right now the stroke is not filled -- the white color is the transparent background. This is what the image looks like in Illustrator without the background and no color applied to the stroke.
Of course if I deselect the stroke, the object disappears, and when I save it, there's nothing visible. My goal is to print a white stag on a green T-shirt. Do I need to convert the stroke object to something else, then apply a fill? I don't know how to proceed.
Can you please advise me how to get from where I am to where I need to be?
Thanks very much for your guidance.
Brian

Just fill it with black. Then tell whomever is doing the printing to print it with white.
The printer needs an image that will print as a black-and-white solid, not a tint. Any color other than black (including shades of black) will print as a tint (array of dots) unless the color is defined as a spot color and the file is printed as color separations. So without knowing the kind of printing you intend to use, the simplest method of providing single-color artwork is simply to provide a black image and tell the printer the color you want to print.
A design like that might be put on a garment by silkscreening (most common), or by cutting the shape from heat applied vinyl, or even by embroidery. Either way, simply providing a black image will work.
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