Ok not a transvestite, but a deer that looked like a male because of it’s antlers, but turned out to be a female deer upon closer inspection.

Hunter, Carmen Erickson of Michigan, dropped a deer with a single riffle shot. He thought he’d shot a nice buck, but as he got closer to his catch he discovered that the deer was a doe.

Female deer do not have antlers – well they aren’t supposed to, but this one did. The state Game and Fish Department was notified, and he got a return call from a biologist who stated that these types of deer are bucks whose testicles haven’t descended or for some reason have been castrated. This was not the case with Ericksons deer. He states that no male genitals were found on the deer that he shot.

Gary Rankin, district game warden in Larimore, said he has seen a couple of antlered does over the years, but for a doe to have a well-developed rack is unusual.

It is not the first antlered doe to be reported in the region this year. A conservation officer for the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources reported seeing a 10-point antlered doe shot near Robbin, Minn., during that state’s firearms deer season. DNR conservation officers in other parts of Minnesota also reported a handful of antlered does.

Erickson said the antlered doe is a first for his crew, which has been hunting together for 25 years.

“It definitely was a keeper, he said.