An advocate for transgender people says they're concerned Manitoba's Progressive Conservative Party approved a leadership candidate who once described U.S. assistant health secretary Rachel Levine, a trans woman, as a "man dressed in woman's clothing."

More than three years ago, Churchill hotel and ecotourism company owner Wally Daudrich posted a Facebook comment about Levine, who is also an admiral in the U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps and became the first transgender U.S. offici…