Dilma Rousseff in Brazil.) The same month, however, a spokesperson for President Dilma Rousseff announced that she had suspended distribution of sex education videos through the ministries of health and education, saying that "anti-homophobia kits", as they are known, were "inappropriate for children" and did not offer an objective view of homosexuality. Most videos, directed at high school students aged 14–18, portrayed teenagers accepting "transexualidade", as transsexualism is called in Brazil, or bisexuality. The packages included a teacher's guide. Rousseff said that "the government supports education as well the struggle against homophobic practices. However, no government body will be allowed to make
Kátia Abreu May 2016, after president Rousseff was suspended by the Senate and vice-president Michel Temer was sworn as acting president, being replaced by Blairo Maggi. Kátia Abreu Kátia Abreu (born February 2, 1962) is a Brazilian politician. She represented Tocantins in the Federal Senate from 2007 to 2014. She was a congresswoman elected by the Tocantins State from 2003 to 2007. She is a member of Democratic Labour Party, since the Brazilian Democratic Movement Party expelled her in 23 November 2017. On 23 December 2014, President Dilma Rousseff appointed Abreu as Minister of Agriculture, to serve during the president's second term,