IGM transmission Tr(Lyα) measured from 2127 VUDS galaxies in increasing redshift bins from z = 2.5 to z = 5.5. The black vertical lines represent the median of the distributions in each redshift bin. A wide spread in transmission is observed at all redshifts. The red shaded histograms include all galaxies with flags 2, 3, and 4, while the white striped histograms only represent flag 2. No significant difference is found between the IGM properties of flags 3 and 4 and flag 2. The distribution of IGM transmission is somewhat discretized because of the seven IGM templates used in the spectral fitting. The median and dispersion values measured by Faucher-Giguère et al. (2008b) using QSOs are represented by the blue distribution in each redshift bin. The median values from VUDS galaxies are in excellent agreement with Faucher-Giguère et al. (2008b) for z < 4, while the VUDS results seem to show higher transmission at z > 4 (see text for a discussion). The dispersion values are also in excellent agreement at all redshifts.