Karolina Long Tain González Rodríguez, a trans woman, retrieves ingredients from a refrigerator before opening the community kitchen at Casa Lleca, an LGBTQ+ shelter in the Peralvillo neighborhood of Mexico City, Friday, Sept. 20, 2024. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)

Karolina Long Tain González Rodríguez, a trans woman, walks past a kitchen in Casa Lleca, an LGBTQ+ shelter located in the Peralvillo neighborhood of Mexico City, Friday, Sept. 20, 2024. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)

Karolina Long Tain González Rodríguez, a trans woman, prepares dough to make gorditas in a kitchen at Casa Lleca, an LGBTQ+ shelter in the Peralvillo neighborhood of Mexico City, Friday, Sept. 20, 2024. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)

Victoria Sámano, center, Karolina Long Tain González Rodríguez, right, and Yamileth Adriano — all trans women — serve meals at Casa Lleca, the LGBTQ+ shelter they operate in the Peralvillo neighborhood of Mexico City, Friday, Sept. 20, 2024. Samano founded the shelter in 2020 in an effort to help LGBTQ+ people and sex workers who were unhoused or at risk of losing their homes. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)

Victoria Sámano, a trans woman, speaks with a client in the community kitchen at Casa Lleca, an LGBTQ+ shelter she founded in the Peralvillo neighborhood of Mexico City, Friday, Sept. 20, 2024. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)

Karolina Long Tain González Rodríguez, a trans woman, gives instructions to Yamileth Adriano, not pictured, before opening the community kitchen at Casa Lleca, an LGBTQ+ shelter in the Peralvillo neighborhood of Mexico City, Friday, Sept. 20, 2024. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)

Victoria Sámano adjusts a menu while opening the community kitchen at Casa Lleca, an LGBTQ+ shelter in the Peralvillo neighborhood of Mexico City, Friday, Sept. 20, 2024. Sámano, a trans woman, founded the shelter in 2020 in an effort to help LGBTQ+ people and sex workers who were unhoused or at risk of losing their homes. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)