The day honours the memory of those killed because of anti-transgender violence.
The annual vigil began after the 1998 murder of Rita Hester, a black transgender woman, in Boston.
It remains unsolved.
In the United States, in 2017 alone, 27 people who were transgender or gender non-conforming were killed by hate violence, National Coalition of Anti-Violence Programs reports show.
Stats NZ doesn’t currently have figures on how many people are transgender in New Zealand, but the Youth'12 health and wellbeing survey of 8500 New Zealand secondary school students in 2012 showed about four out of every 100 students were either transgender (1.2 per cent) or were not sure of the gender (2.5 per cent).
Nearly one in five had experienced bullying on a weekly basis, nearly five times higher than others who were not transgender and more than half of transgender students were afraid someone at school would hurt or bother them.
One in five had attempted suicide in the past year.
Organisers said these statistics showed exactly why transgender pride events were needed.
Trans Pride in the Park
When: 12pm - 4pm, November 21
Where: Yatton Park, bring a rug to sit on
Who: Any supporter of transgender pride is welcome
